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The South Carolina Library Campus Volume LXX, No. ~70 Univeraitv of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Man. 17, 19BO U nofficia By Megan Sexton Gamecock Staff Writer A group of students calling themselves "Students for a Fair Student Government" are protesting an unofficial "Greek slate" supporting candidates for constitutional office. Thoco ctnHontu ufrnto fr? thf? Gamecock saying documents were passed around to fraternity members urging them to vote for specific candidates. Jim Corbett, one of the authors of the letter, called this system "unethical." Senators John Stelling and Michael Couick wrote the "slate" which they called "Greek Senators faf DaoWnrn T " Pnninl/ iui i v/uiu v v ucauci oinp. V/Uuili\ said it was an individual effort by he and Stelling, and the Intrafraternity Council had nothing to do with it. STELLING SAID after their exoerience in the senate with the different candidates, they decided on the four they felt were the best choices. Tony Turner is being endorsed for president, Jeff Floyd for vice president and Barbara Derrick for treasurer. Turner is a fraternity president. Floyd and Derrick are non-Greeks but Corbett said they are described in the hand-out as "friends of the Greeks who have always supported and worked for the Greeks." . r * u we it: iiui iavurmg iiiem because they're Greeks, or because they'd favor Greeks. We support them because we feel they are fair minded and hard working," Stelling said. Couick said it should not be referred to as a "Greek Slate" because it was paid for by two senators, and the fraternities were not involved. Corbett said "the students don't Know wnai iney re up againsi. Through this secret slate the , Housing causes p ! By Leslie Qamacock S Women's housing sign-up Thurs< scene of a fight among students w unofficial list was discarded and st places as best you can." According to witnesses, sign-up wuic iuiu uy uic ui&i gm in line, v the night, that the list had been thr fend for themselves. At this point,, camped out forced their way into who protested was slapped in the had to intervene. SIGN-UP PROCEEDED smooth n ti'nch r?on anrl (foirn it tn o PnciH M V1UOII V-dll U11U TV/ II VKJ U I VVOIU who used it to group the students who camped out complained about which brought together so many p in authority present. Also, most < classes, tests and work to be at hou; ; Richard Wert/, associate vice ? vices, said he would study the si* input as to its improvement. Ho Residential Life Services because t i mM\A/n.hoifn r% r\rA/>ncc fl SW1A ol vuiiv/. t? v, uavu i.\j pi wv/oo *j> y\j\nj o\ computers," he said. THIS YEAH, there is an increa ....j ?i..,1 4? : 1 t ttnu muuuius get anxiuus anu ieur camp out when it really isn't nece and there would be less confusion i up, Wertzsaid. . | Residential Life Services has I priority on the university compute been denied by the computer comi the use of computer time would gre . 1 i . J 1 1 1 il 'Greek Greeks are being told who to vote for." "If these people get elected they will owe the election partially to ikto f lr*cx?*\f c If cnmnnno hntnc imn WIV VJl VVI\0. 41 OWI1IVU11V uvxpo JUU get elected you will be obligated to do things for them. Student government officers shouldn't owe anybody anything," Corbett said. Corbett said Greek candidates would be "narrow minded" and not work for the entire student body's interest. He said he is against any special interest group gaining power in SG. DAVID WADFORD, one of the ten people who signed Corbett's letter, said "if the fraternities got everyone in key positions they would swing everything to the fraternities." Stelling said by passing the list of supported candidates to members of fraternities they were not trying to gain influence for Greeks in student government. He said they were just trying to let the fraternities know who they feel are the u?? i; ,J ? ? ueai tdiiifiudies. Stelling said Turner is being supported for president because he is a fraternity president and a "responsible senator." Floyd is being endorsed because he is president pro tem of this year's senate and he is a "likable person." Barbara Derrick is being supported for SG treasurer because she has done a good job as senate athletic committor chairman Derrick proposed the bill for the new block seating system which is favorable to both Greeks and nonGreeks, Stelling said. Turner, Floyd and Derrick were told by the senators that the fraternities would support them. Stelling said none of the candidates asked for a "Greek slate" to be written. / Ikti mm to * v i w > w _| iL . tunnel i d i-im i saiu me sign-up roblems i Smith taff Writer jay in the Towers lounge was the /aitins in line for rooms after an :udents were told to "defend their began at 9:00 a.m., and students /ho organized roll call throughout own away and they would have to a number of students who had not the front of the line, and one girl face. The security guard on duty ly when someone found the list in ential Life Services staff person, in line and check ID's. Students the first-come, first-serve system pnnl#? in nnp nlflfp without anvnnp the students spoke of missing sing sign-up. resident of Residential Life Ser;n-up system and accept student wever, there are limitations on of a small staff and no computer tudents with a small staff and no sed demand for housing, he said, they will not get a room so they ssary. Everyone will get a room, f they would come the day of sign >een trying for ten years to get r system, but their requests have mittee, Wertz said. He added that atly improve the sign-up process. slate' support; 4 illMMMMMMiiaifflllM fl i'ai i '1 k. v ' -y- -- J - Several SG candidates have been en do cnarges or a greoK si ate. "formation of a "Greek slate' goes in which special against the principles of free, open could attempt to and fair elections. We believe the Government f< formation of a 'Greek Slate' benefit." establishes a dangerous precedent Paul Reeves, Rilev ranr By Ronda Templeton Assistant News Editor A state senator and a black leader have charged that Gov. Dick Riley and Marion Gressette, chairman of the S.C. Senate Judiciary Committee, conspired to halt Senate reapportionment and pass the governor's two-term succession bill. The Senate gave final approval Friday to legislation allowing a governor to succeed himself in office. This makes Riley eligible for re-election in 1982. THE U.S. JUSTICE Department has called for Senate reapportionment because the present districts discriminate against minorities, but action on the issue has been delayed. Reapportionment to singlemember districts is opposed by senior senators because it would diminish the authority they have traditionally wielded, said Sen. Tom Turnipseed, D I pvinotnn Turnipseed and Alvin Hinkle, director of the South Carolina Association of Minorities in F'ublic Administration, said they were sure Riley and Gressette made a deal to back each other in the Senate. Riley fought to pass the bill making him eligible for reelection and Gressette is opposed to reap puniuiimeui, i urnipseea saia. Turnipseed said Gressette wants reapportionment postponed until after the 1980 elections "because he is afraid it would take away his power." Reap portionment would also make it more difficult for some senators to retain their seats, he said. "It appears to me that a deal transDired between Riley and Gressette," Turnipseed said. In the past, Gressette has been opposed to Riley's bill calling for a governor to succeed himself, and Rilev has sud r r 1 ported Senate reapportionment, because the U.S. Justice Department found South Carolina's apportionment ratio violated the Constitution, he said. THE TWO MEN have been struggling for each % . 1 r* s candidates ">. ^ , - .^ .^JMSmllllllSI . . V..-.K.-: ' * *: " **'" " * *!' .- ; ... J >1.1 .si v, ;;.y* .,.; ;; ' ' . ' " .:vx;,.'':: ; ' " ::: . :i : r- ,7 ' ' \- * : ." . ^ > Russoll K Pace GAMECOCK rsed by two greek senators, prompting interest groups | missioner, said he didn't know control Student anything about a "Greek Slate" jr their own but said he thought it was just a election com- preference of candidates. >ed on bill other's support, Turnipseed said, and he suspects they made a deal because "The day after Kiley said we (the Senate) didn't have to do anything about reapportionment until after the (1980) elections, his succession bill came out of Gressette's committee :iL 1 _ A ^ A I A M wiui oniy one voie againsi 11. Turnipseed said he believes Riley and Gressette made a deal to support each other because Gressette has been "violently opposed" to the succession bill in the past. U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and President Jimmy Carter were involved with the delay in S.C. Senate reapportionment because "Riley and Carter are best friends," he said. Turnipseed said he voted in favor of the governor s a A : L 11 i * i iwo-ierm succession uui, uui ueuevcs ixucy weiu about getting it passed the wrong way." He also supportsreapportionmentof the Senate, butsaid some other senators oppose it because of feelings of "latent racism. They want to have an all-white, buddy buddy senate," he said. Hinkle said "Blacks believe, and I believe, that Riley and Marion Gressette made a deal not to push reapportionment if Gressette went along with the two-term (succession) deal." It is more than coincidence that Gressette halted his opposition to the Qnrpfiininn hill hfxmiri KILEY HAS MAI)K it clear (hat he is not concerned about blacks in South Carolina through his failure to act in the reapportionment issue, Hinkle said. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy has consistently shown support for black Americans, so the "only way to get back at Carter and Rilev is to go to the polls in favor of Kennedy," he said. Riley has said he did not conspire with Gressette for the good of their respective bills, spokesperson Beegie Truesdale said. "If someone is intimidated by nis suppon ior warier, u is a seii-imiiciea intimidation," she said.