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V . . < . iJ Rate he< By Rood* Tempteton, Gamccock Staff Writtr The longest South Carolina Electric and Gas rate hearings in history will reconvene before thei Public Service Commission in j early February after a temporary recess. The hearings went into recess the final week in December in order for Southern Bell rate hike hearings to get underway. The intervenors in the case have not begun to present their case to the PSC and Sen. Tom Turnipseed said the hearings would continue for at least three or four more weeks. The PSC hearings have been drawn out because SCE&G officials refused to present documentation and records requested by the intervenors,' Turnipseed said. He added that SCE&G will not release expense records because it will prove the company is wasting money. SCE&G has presented all required documentation to the intervenors, Rudy Coward, a spokesperson for the company, said. The rate hearings should have been completed within three weeks but the "antics" of the intervenors have lengthened the procedings, Coward said. SCE&G has presented a good Exam vU By Ronda Templeton Gamecock Staff Writar Exam time is the "season for faculty members to violate their own rules" by giving tests and quizzes during one of the final regular class periods, said Charles Tucker, associate professor of sociology. Students and members of the (JSC faculty should be made aware that the faculty handbook states "In any course or laboratory which 4..- * ? 4i *: ? ? ...?i. iueeu> iwu-ui iiii cc-niiics-a-wccA, no quiz, test, or examination shall be given during the last two class sessions prior to the regular examination period." Tucker said the regulation is broken by faculty members each semester. THE ADMINISTRATION of a test, quiz or examination during the period designated as illegal in the faculty handbook is a violation of students' rights, Tucker said. Students are afraid to protest the tests because thev fear censure hv both the instructor and fellow students for speaking out, he said. APPLY Omicron D INati< Leadc Honor! Requirements: 1) 60 or more hours com 2) cumulative 3.0 G.P.R 3) significant contribut athletics, media and othei Applications Available: rack near Info. Desk, 5 ? Career Planning & Pla< Honors Program Offi< 1 8544 Dead Januai I , ? c . irings to c case and been totally co-operative with the intervenors' requests for , company information, Coward said. The hearings have continued because "Turnipseed keeps them going for political reasons," he added. Sam Hammond, chief accountant for the PSC, was crossexamined by - the intervenors during the final week of hearings, Turnipseed said. Hammond's testimony indicated the expenses of SCE&G's head lobbyist, B. olations c If a faculty member forces a 1 student to take and exam during < one of the last two classes prior to ! exams, the student should report : him to an appropriate administrator. Tucker said a grade assigned on the basis of an illegal niiiz tpst nr pxaminatinn mnv hp challenged by the student. In a letter dated Dec. 5, Tucker sent a list of instructors who had. planned examinations during the week prior to finals to Chester Bain, dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. Tucker obtained the instrutor's names from students enrolled in his classes. Many of the teachers included on Tucker's list were new teachers J J: J i l a. 1 I i a. ^ anu uiu nui Know uiey couia noi schedule tests during the final two class periods, Bain said. A memo was issued telling the teachers they could not give their tests on the planned dates. STUDENTS IN Bartow Hodge's Business Administration 190 course were given a choice of taking a make-up examination on NOW! | eita Kappa I onal ?rship Society pleted h ions to academics, arts, \ activities i i md floor Russell House cement, Harper College ee, Leiber College or call lline ry 28 ontinue Marion Smith, should be removed from the company's rate base as legitimate expenses because "they have not been used in the interest of the rate payers." Owknk itnr. ?nnM/w4 O O t ihtmAtl Q fn oiiui.11 wcta isaucu a ouupvvuu appear before the PSC in early December. One of the main topics of his testimony was his "below the line" expenses. Smith's lobbying expenses would not be "below the line" if they were legal, Turnipseed charges. The expenses are not illegal and "below the line" is just a deter- i mination of whether the stock holders or the rate payers would take up the expenses, according to Smith. While SCE&G is involved in a rate case its books are audited by several companies and nothing SCE&G does is secret, Coward said. SCE&G has a rate base and certain expenses are ruled below the line, he said, and lobbying expenses incurred by Smith are allowable in the rate base. Members of the PSC have shown bias against the intervenors and favor toward SCE&G, according to Turnipseed and Bob Guild of the S.C. Human Welfare Association. "Certainly they're biased against me because they've called me everything from being drunk to on I drugs to a liar," Turnipseed said. harged Reading Day or failing the examination, Hodge said. The Scheduling of the test on Reading Day was legitimate because students were given the alternative of failing the test, he said. The majority of the names apm>nrina nn Tiirlfpr's list of in structors planning tests in violation of the examinations and grading system were employed by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Faculty members who "shout so loudly for self-rule" should begin enforcing their own rules upon themselves, Tucker said. The violation of the faculty handbook is an abridgement of student and faculty rights, he said. WHAT T AND FIN! ^ Do you think and ta more now than you used t drinks? 4? | 14. [ [H 5. Do you drink when forget what heppened w bottle hidden somewher< Qj 8. Do you need a dri drinking without really thir irrs 4^. It a. ?- I?- ? ?- - mummy iu leiitfYt? u nunj. If you had four be one of th drinking probl 4174, Campu: Street. NEWS 1 1 REPORTER'S I MEETINGS I weanesaay at *at p.m. Room 321, Russell House | Gamecock Offices 777-7181 All current and new reporters j are asked to attend. | i ~ mmmamammmmnmmaKmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmKmmmmmmmnmmmammmmmmam Need a Job? The Department of Residential Life Services is now hiring eligible _ _ i _ _ ? a a ** worK stuay stuaents tor Desk Assistant positions. 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