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! g* 1 * |The South Carolina Library .Campus iiiiimiiw??WWW???W ???? in mrm?^ Volume LXX, No. "7A University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. March 26, 19BO Organi; will be i 1 i oi ouag< By Teresa K. Weaver Gam?cock Staff Wrh?r More than 80 student organizations that applied for Student Allocations Commission funding will be officially notified Friday about the status of their requests. Marsha Duncan, dean of Student Affairs, said SAC had $450,000 to divide between the organizations anH tntnl ronnncfc fnr > ??? vvvv?i U1 IV! iUUUlllg WC1C in excess of $829,000. The Russell House University Union budget request was cut sharply by SAC. The contemporary Sounds, Trips and Expiditions and Ideas and Issues committees received large cuts. THE OPEN DOOR Health Enrichment program was recommended to receive no oiuucih tuuua mi uexi year ana me Intramural Recreational Sports and Carolina Leadership programs received large budget cuts. The Student Media publications received heavy personnel cuts. Gamecock assistant editors, reporters and photographers will no longer be paid, Garnet and Black photographers will work on a voluntary basis and the New Crucible budget was eliminated. Ronnie Jowers, president of RHUU, said budgets in his area were cut sharply by SAC, but many of the reductions were "expected." Contemporary Sounds received a severe reduction in funding, and Jowers believes it is because of a "bias" on the part of SAC mem- i bers against the committee. "Contemporary Sounds has i Bill thrc By Teresa K. Weaver Gam?cock Staff Writer A bill before the S.C. Legislature state university grievance comno 4'blur the distinctions" between faculties, said Steve Ackerman, US provost. Ackerman said he believes establishing a grievance rommiMp specifically to handle matters university faculty would tend to mal mass of faculty without distinctions. "One of the strengths of higher e the distiction between the univei colleges. It's important to main distinctionsAckerman said. SEN. JOHN MILES, D-Sui Clarendon, introduced the set committee on education an amendm exempting academic personnel f personnel regulatons. It would alsc irom appealing meir dismissals ir grievance procedure. Under Miles' amendment, the stitution of Higher Learning Committee would be established t clusively with matters involving personnel. The governor would ap members from the boards of state u and colleges to serve on the committ year terms. . , - .. A faculty member from any state could appeal their dismissal to the co for some reason he felt he had. not be due process in the internal procedure Chris Vlahoplus, USC system vice for university relations and public al zations lotified 2t status taken a lot of flak from the senate this year, and it has given them a very negative image. I think it's completely uncalled for," Jowers said. Jowers said the Trips and Expiditions Committee was not recommended to receive any funding next year. Student funds were used only for publicity of the committee, and Jowers said absorbing that expense will double the cost of many of the trips offered by the committee. IDEAS AND ISSUES received substantial budget cuts based largely on biased considerations by SAC, Jowers said. "For the money, we provide the most entertainment and education. We try to program with the entire student body in mind and not just a particular group. We definitely think we deserve the money," he said. A result of the budget cuts recommended by SAC could be that students will have to pay for many of the lectures sponsored by iqeas ana issues, Jowers said. "The time is coming when there will be less offered to students or more they'll have to pay for,1' Jowers said. Wendy Bouskill, program' adviser for Ideas and Issues, said the budget reductions are "disappointing," but that the group will try to keep offering a number of programs by refocusing their attention to local areas. OUR COMMITTEE has always talked about doing cheaper programs using teachers, administration and local people. Assistant provoi jaieiib id( creating a - ^ ittee would *-M individual ;> *'*'' "jjp" C assistant ceT-Wand ^ pj.-? u ueai exacademic point nine niversities MHSq or for two university immittee if en allowed WMBIHBwHMMHi i. i president Assistant Prov ffairs, said * S\1H ' ^ i/^'V^V-'Y; >;i'::-;' ' : *" '. - 'V *>".1 " ?*'" ^-"S Luanne Hicks, editor of the 1\ on the magazine's final issue, denied funding by the Student / There are a whole slew of "resources in the Columbia area and I can see how we can resort to that type of thing," Bouskill said. The Open Door health enrichment program was recommended to receive no student funds for next year, and Mary Beth Love. director of the program,finds the decision "ironic. "People come from all over the country to look at Open Door as a model. People are recognizing what we've done, but our base support doesn't see that we have ?t Ackerman says :ultv disti t he doesn't I is a necess. process. "The in< faculty is tl and the af present sy time-tested a foolproof said. "There i ' least this c education, bring with . ' "1 Miles sai ^^iSlpSSB^ - ^ he has reef USC admii V -V' is strong st -Within I the assists academic s support wh places ther said TIIK SKf opponent ol the fact thi and also th Vlahoplus s The maj< Ackerman . teristics of < ost Ackerman ignored aft board with j > > <Vv . . ;.T>v"*f* V v<* * > . v -M Btny N*wman ? GAMECOCK ^1 ~ ? 1 - 1 1 www viui,iuiu, v,uui(jiuies worn The student publication was Allocations Commission. probably the best program of its kind in the country," Love said. SAC member Cheryl Doe said the reason behind eliminating the Open Door budget was that the program gets enough money from sources outside the university and it would not die without student funds. Love said the main support r 11 ior me program comes from student funds, although some money is taken in from various community groups. Setf SAC, page 3 nctions relieve the creation of the new board ary addition to the overall grievance dication from remarks from the lat a procedure has been established >paratus has been enforced in the stem of the university. It's been I and although that doesn't mean it is system, it is adequate," Vlahoplus 5 no system that is foolproof, but at ne is within the traditions of higher The proposed super board doesn't it any super powers," he said. d last week that the only opposition tived to his amendment has been the tistration, but Ackerman said there ate-wide resistance to the proposal. :he past couple of weeks I've called mt provost of vice president for ffairs at each of the universities and id in most places I couldn't find anv atsoever for the proposal. In some e was a little faculty support," he BATOR'S focus on USiC as the main f the measure is based primarily on at it is the largest state university at it is located in the state capital, aid. >r concern of the administration, said, is that the unique charac?ach of the state universities will be er the establishment of a superurisdiclion over all schools. Budgets can be appealed By Megan Sexton Gamecock Staff Writer Licensed student organizations dissatisfied with the budget decisions made by the Student Allocations Commission may appeal to the student senate. The first step an organization must take is to appeal in writing to the senate president explaining the reason they are unhappy with SAC's decision, senate nroci/lnnf JVA |/i \.0iuvui. jTiivuaci naionauci adiu. At the next senate meeting, the president will read the letter to the senate and ask the finance committee to study the appeal for one week. A representative from the organization and a representative from SAC will go before the .senate one week later to present arguments for both sides. The finance committee will then make a recommendation on whether the senate should pass the appeal. The suggestion is then debated and voted on in the senate. "THE THING" to remember about appeals is that if the senate increases one organization's allocations they have to take money away from another organization." Jerrv Brewer. assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs, said. The appeal process must be finished by the last senate meeting of this semester or no money will be allocated for organizations during the summer, Brewer said The appeals will begin m the senate the first Wednesday after spring break. SAC has a limited amount of money to work with. Brewer said This year, $125,000 was allocated to student organizations, he said,and when the senate takes money from one group to give to another the groups who lose their money will want to appeal. "It's like a Catch 22." he said. THE ENTIRE appeals process is outlined in the treasurer s manual for student organizations. Warshauer said. The New Crucible, which was eliminated by SAC last week, is one of the organizations that will appeal. The Contemporary Sounds Committee of Russell House University Union was one of the organizations which was "rut hard" by SAC. Larry Hancock of Contemporary Sounds said, "I won't know where we stand until our original budget request comes back on Friday " ORGANIZATIONS AKE being notified about their budgets and are receiving instructions on the appeal process, he said Last year the government and international studies undergraduate and graduate programs and the student media appealed to the senate concerning SAC budget cuts. Every group has a 10 percent transfer clause in their budget which allows them to shift money around for different programs. "This could solve a lot of a group problems,'' Brewer said.