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This is the fast issue of the 1980-Q1 schooi year. reSUm? %fune ' Wednesday Volume LXX(No.84 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. April 30,1980 \ Sen at L 13 moo By Tammy Kilpatrick (iameciK-k Staff Writer The student senate gave "rubber stamp" approval to the 1980-81 budget recommended by the hnance committee Monday alter only one new allocation was made. The senate voted to pass most of the budget as a whole without discussion, and Student Government Vice President Jeff Floyd called the measure a "rubber stamping" of the recommendations of the Student Allocations Commission and finance committee. ?n/\>inc ?f /*r i r_.iv i uucna ui ueudic, Sen.Lorean Evans made a motion to reconsider an earlier call to vote on the budget without further review. Sen. Lee Cleveland then proposed an amendment allowing general discussion on any organization requesting allocations in the budget. When the amendment was apnrAiroH nn eon o f Ar mAtinrinH f r pi \/ V VU, ll\/ OvH C* IV/I IUU11UI 1W? It discuss a particular budget. Floyd then called for a voice vote, and the budget was passed. Floyd said he would have likec the discussion of each individua budget to continue. "But they (th< senate) all had an opportunity t( speak on it. If the senate trusts the finance committee, then that's th< purpose of the committee anc there is no need to go through i again." r inance commmee cnairwomai Dorothy Stefan said SAC and th< finance committee did th< groundwork on the budget, bu most senators did not take the tim< to familiarize themselves with th< allocations. "If people really wanted to dc 'DevilishT film can't be shown By Tammy Kilpatrick Gam?cock Staff Wiiter The state attorney general has handed down an opinion that a movie scheduled by [ Cinematic Arts should not be shown because of pornographic content. Attorney General Daniel McLeod said in the opinion that USC could be sued by local authorities for showing "The Devil and Miss Jones." Because of its "x" rating, university oficials could be held liable if a suit is brought. Richard Singer of the Russell House activites office said RH Director Tom Otts requested the movie not be shown until a decision by the attorney general was handed down. New Cinematic Arts chairman Tom Water said the committee had voted unanimously to present the film in Kussell House Ballroom so more people could view it. "We decided to bring it because it was a justified film. There was more to it than just porno," Water said. k . 0 gives \ orc+am 4 the work on it, they could have,"she said. "If people were th is concerned, they have ways to find out the information." A COLUMBIA Correctional Institute student, Bruce Poe, made an appeal to the senate for funding for a graduation banquet for CCI students. The organization, which originally requested $12,491, was funded $1,051 by SAC but was later cut completely by the finance committee. CCI was funded $900 by the f rvr*o 4/a rt ft r* 4 rv 1 11 i G* C f\/\ r?cuaic ctnui uic ci^ptrcti, wiin ^>ouw taken from the Flying Club and $400 from the Black American Law Student Association to finance allocation. Passing the budget without further discussion ignored appeals by the 1980-81 New Crucible coeditor Clisby Williams and WUSC station manager Hon Marsh for funding. The New Crucible has been denied all funding, while 2 SG President Larry Kellner ) Brainw By Teresa K. Weaver Gamecock Staff Writer The concept of brainwashing is i "ridiculous gossip" about the Church, a state director of Ilev. I Moon's church said. Benjamin O'Shea has been Columbia's Five Points area for al | coordinating the activities of about members of the Unification Church related movement called the Association for the Research of CARP, announced plans last week tc USC chapter. O'SIIEA SAID he will not actively ! in the CARP organization, but th support the group members in their The 29-year-old O'Shea attended workshop sponsored by the Unifical about seven years ago and had beer since. The negative image of the wo said, as camps where unsuspecting "brainwashed," is totally unfoundec 1 'Anlir rv/?rvy\ln vyii?j Kii%r. iihh cite iillcicd there is no pressure at all," he said. A USC student that visited with < other Moonies during a worship s< that many of the practices of the "dangerous." David Hudson was spend some time with the Moonies a a member of the church, and said used sophisticated mind-control te< "manipulate vulnerable people." Hudson said, "Those people pre} who have a negative self-concept. ' make you think they offer some Dudget p' OK WUSC-FM was denied $10,000 of its request. Valerie Cox also made an appeal for Russell House University Union's Cinematic Arts and Trips and Expeditions committee. Approval did not allow discussion of the South Carolina State Student Legislature's appeal for funding. SEN. TONY PATRON E introduced an amendment to allocate $500 to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, with $250 coming from the Clarisophic Society's speakers and trvel allowances, and $250 from the Rugby Club's building equipment fund. The measure was voted down by voice vote. Stefan said if so much time had not been taken to discuss individual items on earlier budgets, the senate could have discussed all i. 1 : A! ? ? I 1 ?, ? A _ ine organization s uuugeu>. "If we had spent less time in each one of them we coulds have had all of them done,"she said. "They (the senators) centered most of their energy on the first few or.es, so they got tired and only one-fourth of the budgets were gone over." As the meeting continued past 7 p.m., senators began to leave. Stefan said she was afraid a quorum would not be met and the discussion would have to be postponed. "That was my greatest fear that there would be no money allocated for the next year if we didn't finish the budget,"she said, lutit MrriTuwv a 11 n m r\D^ 1 , 1JV/LI IvJIV'X.' V'llll a UllVllipVU to block the final call to accept the budget as it was, saying he Unification Chv ashing 'ri alternative. They sho but they're sneaky ." nothing but Unification AN ORGANIZATION* Sun Myung a licensed campus grot their charter was rev living in year of operation. x>ut a year James Campbell, vi 25 regular affairs, said the lie* . A closely- because of a number of Collegiate "We received mz Principles, students saying they organize a members of the group basically about them c letting them go. Th participate getting angry, so we at he does they didn't stop, we'd efforts. said. a weekend The organization cal tion Church .... HrtiMTBf* jomm SB . - M' D ? < x^x?> yi-:;; i Vr^ ' " : ' ^/ylXr^-r-^i""'' '"^^y v<t-'5'"ir->'1^ ^''l;r :-~ "ii ifflH ; : L". fd - " -~T-y Jeff Floyd, Student Senate Pre a "rubber stamping" of budgets believed there should be more tl discussion on controversial issues such as the New Crucible and Cinematic Arts. s V "I don't have any specific ideas ^ overall, I just think it's a shame that three-fourths, of the budget was not considered, "he said. Cnn N it a Lr F r% rt c* # nrt a Ica r t rl F" k?cu. inai i\ LiUiigoiv/ii aiou oam more discussion should have been J1 held. " tl "I can't believe the senate fi wouldn't give consideration to a lot h of the things that were passed. I just feel we were elected to vote on irch official says idiculous < * wer you with attention, many of the ? they are ehf license. Ther i called the Moonies was complaints c ip several years ago, hut already, he s oked after less than a not beeffecti\ Hudson is i ce president of student will become ?nse was taken away knowing thai student complaints. Church, my complaints from had been harassed by MOST OF >. The harassment was sincere in thii :ornering people and not thing in recr e students were really most of the i warned the Moonies if conned" into I stop them," Campbell Moon. "The probl led CARP is made up of it's the leade their famili( ^k iflrf arranged exc ?|k JSBM church lcac k Jsggw marriage pa Hudson sa legal authoril ?|P^ from coining :;, ar M Bm &j . ^^ai^lHH -- <v. V ' V,^ ^ HHHHPi^l^w ^^^^^^^:''--v--'->--inlHHHHSHXiiikiHHk;-- * Barry Newman - GAMFCOCK ssident, readies the senate for for all student, organizations. hese things," he said. Floyd said since no senators poke during the time allowed for general discussion of the budgets, he senate agreed with the finance ommittee's recommendations "I think that once the senate ealized that it < the budget) wasn't List off the top of heads, they oticed as they went along that hey agreed with SAC and the inance committee I assume they ad no major complaints, "he said. SG PRESIDENT Larrv Kellner From page 1 jossip* 4ame people, Campbell said, and ;ible to apply again for a new e have been a number of student oncernmg the new organization aid, but Campbell said they will re until they are put into writing, worried that many USC students involved with CARP without it is affiliated with the Unification THE people in the church are iking that they are doing the right uitme oeoDle. Hudson said, but -nembers themselves are "being believing the teachings of Rev. em is not so much the members, rs. Everybody's been conned in tion. They really feel like they're and they feel like they're being /all outsiders," Hudson said night up in a Catholic home, said ;ative things written about the from "irreligious" people that and the Moonies' philosophies. Y TO many beliefs about the lea said that members are en 11 ict 111 id hi rviauonsnips wnn ?s. Also, marriages are not lusively by Moon, but rather the ler makes suggestions about rtners and they are then free to id he is considering consulting ties to stop the CARP organization to the USC campus.