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1 Volume LXX, No. B1 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 23,1980 New Crucil By Tammy Klipatrick Gamccock Staff Writar The senate finance committee voted to deny funding for the New Crucible and most Russell House University Union organizations after formal appeals hearings Monday, which will be debated in the student senate today. The committee voted to deny the appeal by the New Crucible staff for funding after the magazine's budget was eliminated by the Student Allocations Commission but the magazine plans to appeal in the fall. Appeals denied this spring are eligible to be filed again in the fall for reconsideration. Npw rruoihlp editors for 1980-81. Saraiane Freleigh and Clisby Williams, said the New Crucible will be offered free next year and depend more on advertisements than student sales if their $22,000 request is approved this fall. They contended the magazine didn't have time to develop an audience with the first three editions as a "slick" magazine and needed more time to be accepted by the USC student body. FRELEIGH SAII) SIIE was disappointed that the finance committee was not more prepared to hear budget hearings. "I didn't think they knew any more about it than SAC did," she said. 11 yuu ic ?Uiiig iu uc iCd[A/iidiuic *ui diuuciii uiuiic^, )uu ia;uci rwiivjw what you're doing. They don't know anything about the magazine." The finance committee also denied Cinematic Arts' request for an additional $12,269 Chairperson Missy Price and ex-chairperson Kenny Paluch appeared before the committee in an attempt to convince the members to allocate more funding. Finance committee member Dorothy Stefan asked Price and Paluch how Cinematic Arts afforded the full page ad run in last week's Gamecock. Price said extra funds were obtained in the publicity budget when the movie calendar was delivered late by the printer at a reduced price. "I'm not arguing for this year's budget, I'm arguing for next year," 1'rice said in reierence 10 me aa. in essence we were trying 10 gei me student body involved with what was going on. I don't think they're apathetic." Price contended Cinematic Arts needs additional funds to expand services to students, despite an expected price hike of 50 cents on pay films next year. WUSC-FM WAS denied $10,000 in extra allocations to buy equipment. With a planned expansion to 3000 watts next year, station manager Ron Marsh said WUSC needed the equipment to become a "force in the radio community." The station's original allocation was $34,735, but the finance committee voted down the $10,000 appeal, because it felt the equipment was not necessary for the station to increase in power. Trips and Expeditions, which requested an additional $6,020 originally but revised the request to $3,020, was also denied. The Trips and Expeditions budget is designed to break even at $44,658, with any extra money returning to the finance committee for redistribution among other organizations. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was funded $530 by the finance committee, although they were not funded by SAC. Treasurer Wilbur Tucker Jr. asked for an allocation of $3,609 to get two major speakers as well as fund promotion, local speakers and r i cunierence auenuaiice. The finance committee agreed to fund the NAACP $250 to cover exSee Crucible, poge 4 Part-time si By Tammy Kilpatrick can't sa Gam?cock Staff Writer Rvans s: Proponents of a bill introduced in the student senate SG vie allowing part-time students to run for Student Government part-tin office say they will file injunctions with Campus Court academ halting further SG elections unless the bill is passed. "We nc Floyd sa Arnold Evans, co-writer of the bill, and Brooks Brown, president of the Mature Students Organization, said they BROV believe part-time students who pay activity fees should compose have the same rights as full-time students, including junction running for SG office. student* Evans said the USC treasurer considers any student taking more than six hours and paying an activity fee to be a full-time student. He said the USC bulletin says someone first'siX paying activity fees is entitled to all rights of a full-time Evans student. "But it doesn't technically make the person a full- satisfac time student," he conceded. proposa next sdi LINDA HOLLAND of the USC Records Office said a full- Governi time student must take 12 hours as far as ecademic and enrollment requirements are concerned. Bill Cartledge of "I dor the Treasurer's office, however, said a part-time student one-thin who pays an activity fee and takes more than six hours asking i receives a full-time student sticker on their ID card so they represei can participate in campus events. Senat< done in "It is misleading to have a full-time sticker when they're time sti part-time," Cartledge said. Cartledge agreed that because academically they are not considered full-time students. portionri "We're trying to instill in them (part-time students) that thirds of they have rights. SG is standing in our way because we Browr i appeal i WsM r-. H9HKHBBHBiHHRi ' _ .. v :> ' Vr ' > ' - :J "_ : ' *~ r' ~ "; :W - -V-: : . ^ - - - - - '- -i,- r ' - " , ' , Jtsllltei#! rwmm P^b^I wf Hpm9Ba gy ^ - ? S^JB mpr tudents want y you have the same rights as full-time students," or five curren aid. students, re-president Jeff Floyd said a definition of whether Floyd said le students could be considered full-tirne separate seat* ically or socially if they paid activity fees is needed. held by full-ti ?ed an interpretation from the attorney general," down an opin lid. issue," he saic /N SAID THE Mature Students Organization, SEN. JILL ?d of many part-time students, would file an in- part-time stuc with Campus Court to stop elections until part-time seats, but Flo ? receive effective representation if the bill fails to or three seat* two or three f< ictions can be held until Campus Court reaches a a3.5GPR. Th i, according to Evans, and fall elections within the Brown and 1 weeks of 1980-81 school year would be jeopardized. saying such a said if Campus Court did not reach a decision students. tory to the proponents of the bill, they will take the Objecting t< 1 to the administration. "All this will carry into students are i infl'o alo/tttnri TViof munnc Kit novt trnor Qtiulnnt ctllHpntQ Rrn 1110 O VlWtlV 11. 1 fldl 1 I1VC11IO Wjr UVAi JV/UI , " nent will be nonexistent," Evans said. represent the i't think it's blackmail because we're talking about fpo/ivprpnr^ d of the student body's representation. All we're In a je^ter s that they represent us and give us the right to rwr i | I I w- ? A * -9 III Vllll/d 1^/Vli \ it ourselvfts " Flvans continued . ? . , _ ? ao n0l nave ; reapportionment, held every three years, was last rpnri*jpnt thP 1979. Brown said if extra seats are added for part- between sena jdents, reapportionment will have to be redone Miller said part-time students were counted in the ap- tn m nent of each college. "There's really only two- H hnt?tiii ' the student body represented now," he said. i admits the proposed reapportioning may cut four denied ^: . fJV ifi. . RussoM Pace GAMECOCK righ ts it senators' seats to make way for part-time part-time students should not be given >, but should be allowed to run for seat- nov. ime students if the attorney general harvis ion. "They can run if they would push the i. MITCHELTKEE proposed a plan allowing lents to occupy two or three specially-created yd disagrees with this plan. "If you add two > for part-time students, then you could add [>r blacks, Japanese or even anyone with over ley're all special interest groups," he said. Svans also object to adding two or three seats, i move would not represent all the part-time ) Sen. Eric Miller's comments that part-time not on campus enough to represent full-time wn and Evans said full-time senators do not needs of their part-time constituents. ?1 they're (part-time students) receiving ef entation on campus," Brown said. to the editor, Brown and Mature Student )thy Suttinger said full-time student senators enough contact with part-time students to m adequately, and call for more cooperation tors and their constituents. he believes part-time students should be n if the attorney general considers them fullsays the original bill was not practical. Se* Students, page 3