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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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;
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vices, said he would study the si*
input as to its improvement. Ho
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Greeks are being told who to vote
for."
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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
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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.
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began at 9:00 a.m., and students
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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
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in line and check ID's. Students
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system and accept student
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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,
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mittee, Wertz said. He added that
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against the principles of free, open could attempt to
and fair elections. We believe the Government f<
formation of a 'Greek Slate' benefit."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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rsed by two greek senators, prompting
interest groups | missioner, said he didn't know
control Student anything about a "Greek Slate"
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but said he thought it was just a
election com- preference of candidates.
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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
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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
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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
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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.