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T* ged. VolumeLXX.No.81 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 23,1980 New Crucil By Tammy Kilpatrick Gamacock St?ff Wrttar 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. rne committee voted to aeny me appeal Dy tne New ^ rucioie sian ior 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. New Crucible editors for 1980-81, Sara jane 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 reauest is aDDroved this fall. Thev 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. FRELEIGII SAII) SHE 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. "If you're going to be responsible for student money, you better know 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," Price said in reference to the ad. 44In essence we were trying to get the student body involved with what was going on. I don't think they're apathetic." Price contended Cinematic Arts needs additional funds to expanc services to students, despite an expected price hike of 50 cents on pa) 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 Ror Marsh said WUSC needed the equipment to become a "force in the radic community." The station's original allocation was $34,735, but the finance com mittee 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 $6,02( 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 an> extra money returning to the finance committee for redistributior among other organizations. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was funded $530 by the finance committee, although they were not funded b> SAC. Treasurer Wilbur Tucker Jr. asked for an allocation of $3,609 tc get two major speakers as well as fund promotion, local speakers anc conference attendance. The finance committee agreed to fund the NAACP $250 to cover ex Sea Crucible, page 4 j. jl* jrari-nrnes By Tammy Kilpatrick can't s; Gamecock Staff Writor EvanS! Proponents of a bill introduced in the student senate SG vi allowing part-time students to run for Student Government part-tii office say they will file injunctions with Campus Court acaden halting further SG elections unless the bill is passed. "We r Floyd s Arnold Evans, co-writer of the bill, and Brooks Brown, president of the Mature Students Organization, said they BRO1 believe part-time students who pay activity fees should compos have the same rights as full-time students, including junctio running for SG office. student Evans said the USC treasurer considers any student j^'] taking more than six hours and paying an activity fee to be decisio a full-time student. He said the USC bulletin says someone ei^ paying activity fees is entitled to all rights of a full-time student. "But it doesn't technically make the person a full- cntuf?< time student," he conceded. propose LINDA HOLLAND of the USC Records Office said a full- Goverr time student must take 12 hours as far as ecademic and enrollment requirements are concerned. Bill Cartledge of "I do me Treasurer s omce, nowever, saia a part-time student one-mn who pays an activity fee and takes more than six hours asking receives a full-time student sticker on their ID card so they represc can participate in campus events. Senal done in "It is misleading to have a full-time sticker when they're time si part-time," Cartledge said. Cartledge agreed that because academically they are not considered full-time students. portion ("We're trying to instill in them (part-time students) that thirds o they have rights: SG is standing in our way because we Brow I . ble appea ' V * W : I * / ' >/ ' ' ':: ' ' / ' . 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"All this will carry into stud (ring's election. That means by next year, Student stud iment will be nonexistent," Evans said. repr "1 n't think it's blackmail because we're talking about ^ ^ *d of the student body's representation. All we're is that they represent us and give us the right to mer int ourselves," Evans continued. ^ ' Le reapportionment, held every three years, was last 1979. Brown said if extra seats are added for parttudents, reapportionment will have to be redone M b part-time students were counted in the ap- a|j0, ment of each college. "There's really only two>f the student body represented now," he said. n admits the proposed reapportioning may cut four tl denied IWMi^^MBBIk ?F ; Russeh Pace GAMECOCK riiriuriLS ive current senators' seats to make way for part-time lents. oyd said part-time students should not be given irate seats, but should be allowed to run for seat- pi?v. 1 bv full-time students if the attornev general han.is f - ^ n an opinion. "They can run if they would push the e," he said SN. JILL MITCHELTHEE proposed a plan allowing ;-time students to occupy two or three specially-created s, but Floyd disagrees with this plan "If you add two hree seats for part-time students, then you could add or three for blacks, Japanese or even anyone with over >ufk. i ney re ail special interest groups, nesaid rown and Evans also object to adding two or three seats, ng such a move would not represent all the part time lents. ejecting to Sen. Eric Miller's comments that part-time lents are not on campus enough to represent full-time lents, Brown and Evans said full-time senators do not esent the needs of their part-time constituents. [ don't feel they're (part-time students) receiving ef ive representation on campus," Brown said. i a letter to the editor, Brown and Mature Student noer uoroiny suuinger saia tun-time student senators not have enough contact with part-time students to *esent them adequately, and call for more cooperation veen senators and their constituents. iller said he believes part-time students should be wed to run if the attorney general considers them full8, but still says the original bill was not practical. Set* Students, P*ff? 3