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^Volume LXX, No. ~7~7 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 1<4, 19BO Activit Bv Kimberlv Cihlar Gamecock Staff Writer Although university fees have been raised over the past three years, the money given to the Student Allocations Commission has not because of USC students' i failure to approach the administration concerning fiscal matters, according to SAC] memoer KODeri tjurion. Since 1978, there has been a $3 increase in the university fees set by the board of trustees. The increase has gone to the Thomson Student Health Center instead of to SAC or the athletic department for student tickets. The University fee goes toward athletic tickets, health center services and SAC's budget. Each semester the athletic department receives $16 per student for funding; the Health Center receives $38.50; and SAC receives $13.50. The other $1.50 funds club sports such as lacrosse and gymnastics. SAC has "no mechanism to ask for money," Burton said. SAC's job is to give out money. He said if the university fees were raised to $75 per semester and SAC received the extra $6, the additional $300,000 would cover SAC's need to fund more groups. 'Purse strii killed Net By Tamn ! Gamococ i The Student Allocations Con j sorship" when it denied funding according to the magazine's advi j Jon Clemmenson, New Crucibl coirl CAT rvuimKnrc DnKnpt Duff oaiu u;iv inviiiuvio ivuuci t iviu i said they were dissatisfied with fund a publication containing ec together, drugs and campus crim I The SAC members' statement* Clemmenson said they were "not I their statements constituted "edi | USC is not the only university editorial censorship. Baylor Ur Pikp's Ppalf fVimmiinitv rnlloc media censorship. EDITORIAL CONTROL camc | three editors of the Baylor Lai President Abner V. McCall dis arose when Playboy magazine a coeds to pose in a spread call McCall said Playboy was an c cording to former Lariat editor-ii racuaii, an ex-r tsi ageni, anno possibly expell any student par the Waco, Texas Baptist-suppo editorials, both opposing and fa 1 first week after the Playboy ai tinued to run editorials against incident not to be printed again. "We felt a girl should have the uniimrcUir'c Kiicinncp '' nAtirc nrl UUIV^I OXiJ O UVsTVO VU never fighting for Playboy, we w I a free form of opinion." i When the paper continued to McCall, journalism dean Loyal Strother called an emergency n on March 3 and the editors were members resigned when Barton i were fired. STUDENT RALLIES were he journalism professors resigned, department, said the newspape since it is a private institution, editorials. They say not to adv alcohol, narcotics or pre-marita the editors had violated the guid< Mike Simpson, director of I Washington, D.C., said McCall v Daper. In a private universit :y fee si SA( i n IIIUI Steve Beckham, assistant to the President, said, "students have to let their needs be known. They have to make up their minds to pay more money to be able to participate in more." BERNARD DAETWVLER, systems vice-president for business and finance, said, "The health center's budget was getting in bad shape, they needed more 'When studer' ^ budget increase uy a certain amount g student enrollment h money." He added that USC is trying to keep student fees as low as possible but students probably don't want an increase in fees. "Medical costs like doctors' and An ' 1 : U 1 iiiu aca scuunca nave gune up anu utilities have gone up tremendously," Daetwyler said. Paid concurrently with tuition by only full-time students, the university fee is $69.50 withheld ng censors a/ Crucible iy Kilpatrick k oiavv writer imission used "purse string cenfor the New Crucible's 1980 budget, sor. advisor anrl ITSf farnltv mpmhpr on, Susan Morris and Robert Stein the magazine and did not want to litorial content pertaining to living le. > were made at a fiscal hearing and ; permissible and punitive." He said torial censorship." ' whose publications are victims of liversity, St. John's University and ;e have reported cases of student i into sharp focus with the firing of *iat during March when university agreed with editorials. The furor nnounced they were seeking Baylor the."Southwest Conference Girls." 3xample of northern sleaze, acn-chief Jeff Barton. lunced his intention to discipline and ticipating in the Playboy search on rted campus. The Lariat ran two voring McCall's announcement the nnouncement. But when they cont McCall , he ordered the Playboy ? right to do it and it was none of the itor Cyndy Slovak said. "We were ere just fighting for students to have run editorials against censorship, I Gould and faculty advisor Ralph leeting of the Board of Publications fired by a unanimous vote. 19 staff , Slovak and city editor Barry Kolar Id as the controversy arose and two Gould, chairman of the journalism r must follow nnivprsitv tfnirl?*linnc - * "The university has guidelines on ocate atheism, pornography, use of I sex. The Board of Publications felt ;lines," he said. the Student Press Uw Center in /as within his rights in censoring the y, the president is considered the , Sti? Cmnaor. pag* 4 hare 0 funds unch ease goes to from the $445 tuition per semester. Part-time students have the option tn nou Kut fho mainritv Hnn't nr> tv puj K/\A%, HIV/ IWlljUI IVJ V4VI1 V MV cording to Daetwyler. SAC received around $500,000 for allocations in 1979-80 and the same amount for the projected 1980-81 school year,- Jerry Brewer, assistant dean of Student Affairs said. "We've been given this same amount every year," Burton said. rollment increases by X X percent because out oes to SAC. We have ncrease.' vice president of "Students have to recognize the need for an increase in the fee,' Duncan said. "If there's an in terest in raising the fee we'll tak< action." Burton said SAC has "n< mechanism to ask for mnnpv " - ? -' ?J "SAC is in the position tha nobody likes us because we have t< cut everyone's budget," Burtoi Stude * ?Ir If %J>&ASL By Rachel Koenig Gamecock Staff Writer Columbia merchants ar ? L. w* ^ iU - A TTOn ~ I 1 A. ? cuurgiiig uiai usl siuueius cui stitute about "85 to 95 percent" < the bad checks they receive. Unde j the year-old "bad check law, students can be arrested for failin to pay for a bad check. Frank Hutto, supervisor < IVnctorn Qtoor rncf onronf caiH V" TV^OIVI II UIWI I VOlilUI UlUf OUIU I ! has 25 warrants served on studeni writing bad checks. He sai students realize writing a ba check for a $3 meal can add up I over $100 after fines and coui procedures are considered. The Mercantile Association, group of statewide merchant lobbied for almost a year to colle< money lost on bad checks. The la gives the beholder 15 days to mal< the check good and atter tnat tim a warrant is issued and the me chant has the option of going to tl magistrate and signing a warrai against the person charged. T1 merchant is removed from tl case once the warrant has bet issued. In the past, if an individual wro a bad check and left the count; chances of collection were vi tually impossible. Now, tl Columbia magistrate h? statewide jurisdiction. Joe Taylor, accounts receivab supervisor at USC. said by makir students aware that the law hj changed it may help the bad che< situation. "It is now a crimin offense to write a bad check Taylor said. Under the new law, individua will now have a criminal record fi writing bad checks "This w make it harder for people to obta jobs," he added. It was hoped that with t! financial wizard and other remo tele equipment on campus that tl "bad check business would sic J down," Taylor said. anged after tl health center cjiH "nr(t'ini7i (innt ronnoctoH UU1V4. v/l HV/lflO 1 VVjUVOVVU $800,000 from SAC, we had to cut $400,000 worth of funding since we had only $435,000 to allocate. Half those good programs get zapped, when increasing numbers of groups request funding," Burton said. "IF YOU'RE A new group the > budget you got was probably cut from the Gamecock or the New rpercent, the (SAC) of each student fee m't had much of a - Bernard Daetwy/er business and finance 3 Crucible," Brewer said. "The decisions aren't easy. But it's got - to be done." 2 "When student enrollment increases by X percent, the (SAC) 3 budget increases by X percent because out of each student fee a certain amount goes to SAC," t Daetwyler said. "We haven't had 3 much of a student enrollment i increase." tie merch -v>' "$?b <:< l|' 0* f*V ; ^ / umiJlltf ,e % XW& ** ' sn * Ig Robert Art*II GAMECOCK as Howard Rhodes, USC treasurer ;k said "writing of bad checks ha ai increased within the university " cvon with tho now Jaw in effwt " Warrants are issued to student Is who don't comply with the law or "but we first notify the student am ill give the individual the opportunit; in to pay it." Rhodes said, "if , student doesn't respond, we hav ie to take more action." te Rhodes said the Mercantil ie Association had to toughen up o iw the law or they would have to sto accepting checks completel hree years; ? >;< V Enrollment increased by only 6.7 percent over the past five years, said Carolyne Denham, Inctitntinnal R iier?iirr?h mQnaaor .JVIIUVIV/IIUI 1 V \ OVf.lt VII III 14 1 iup,vi . Even if enrollment increases, it could be part-time students, according to Brewer, and they don't pay university fees Brewer said enrollment changes daily If a fulltime student withdraws $13.T?o is taken out of student activity fees. leeks ants V & <Ks t,*' s&l U I ' | For illustration purposes, non-official "because they couldn't afford the s loss." Richland County Judge Walter Jones said the penalty for writing s bad checks depends on several \ considerations such as how many i offenses the offender has com y mitted and how stable the ma dividual is within his community. e Judge Jones handles up to three offenses against an individual and e "other offenses are discretionary n with the court," he said, p Dennis Bubar, manager of InV r ? * J k/fvffvno/ fiaytr *+