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/ *" r. /' r t g South Carolina's Best College Newspaper Monday Volume LXX No. 26 University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. Oct. 27,1 9E30 Profe Wfcspini i" - *?Vi*. Jr~? Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N. Y.) House that would give a tax cut over a three-yea has endorsed the bill. They'll be fighi I iU<r> 1 By Michael Gooding Staff Writer The Students for a Libertarian Society, active in anti-draft and other individual-freedom movements is organizing a chapter at use. The groUp was founded two vears a^n in San Francisco. Its goal is to make "the issue of individual liberty the primary focus on college campuses," said Mike Lipson, SLS managing director. Lipson, who visited USC this past week, said SLS is involved in the anti-nuclear 1 he INav By Robert Reev< Staff Writer "Religion without a chun describe the Navigators, an interdenominational Chri organization with a chapter at 1 Created in the early 1940s minisfrv amnnf US sprvirp Navigators now have more th staff members in 42 countries. But it is sponsored by no or( denomination. "There are ] organization from almost < denomination as well as sorri bers," said Jeff Jernigan, fu chaplain at USC. "It's primarily people w strongly in Jesus' great comi and teach the world." The organization's national Colorado Springs, Colo., p :ssors yfrHltf3* bbiw itlnf ar r - nil UH1 is sponsoring a bill in the Americans a 30 percent r period. Ronald Reagan ting the draft ar rtarians mnvomont o r? H Alliai< ?*? 1IIV/ T VtllVllV UIIU pvl sonal freedom issues. But draft registration has been its main focus so far. IN 1979, the organization sponsored 50 anti-draft rallies across the nation, including a March 22 Washington, D C., rally that drew more than 30,000 demonstrators. Rick Grant, SLS temporary coordinator, said the USC chapter should be operating by the end of this semester. He said it usually takes about three to four igators: i as mimstrat dinatingi 2h" is one way to Donatu international and members stian religious paid in r LJSC. national 1 primarily as a men abroad, the ALTI1C ian 1,600 full-time church, t nh/vApA Wi LI1WOC til 'anized church or merely a members in the untoitsel! every protestant One fac le Catholic mem- work, bu! 11-time Navigator Jernigan, has never ho believe very "Many mission to go out church o some typ< headquarters in mentione rovides an ad- may neve rateF By John Stafl USC economics professor opinions about the Kemp-Rotl presidential candidate Ronald Reagan has promised the i board tax cut through the bii pass the bill first. The plan cal reduction in me tederal nudge is too large. But USC economics profess "I think it's a little misleadi large a cut," Connolly said. "IF YOU LOOK at the tot continue to rise ? for instanc the payroll savings tax ? and is a step in the right direction. Supporters of the bill, spon N.Y.), and Sen. William R federal budgets for the next tl billion and $818.4 billion. The Kemp-Roth bill, the sui budget $19.8 billion in 1981, $51 in '83, leaving budgets of $58f billion for the three years. THE CONCEPT BEHIIS Professor Richard W. Ellsoi expenditures, you can increas deficit (resulting from the penditures is primarily a dec doubt whether the bill could b< Both Reagan and President with their respective plant Reafian's case the KfMTin-Knt and detailed information is c Republican Headquarters nor offices had information. Ar majority Congress, the bill's s "My gut reaction is that it increase the (federal) deficit, "I doubt that it could be pa any president to control gove that would be necessary to ke< he said. id nuclear powt ; organh weeks to receive approval from the Student Organization Licensing Committee. Grant, a Columbia freshman, said the USC chapter will not seek Student Government funding. The organization operates on nriuafu flnnatiAnc n nJ f ? a V M VV V4U1IU 11 V/IIO (3 11U membership fees. TO ACCEPT Student Government funding would violate SLS principles, Grant said. The organization seeks to take government out of citizens' lives wherever no, it isn i ive base, handling money an activities. )ns pay all operational costs receive no regular salary. T1 elation to the amount of donal leadquarters made in their nam* kiimi WMT A - n\/i n iuiiuai [/cut Ul c he Navigators encourage mem eir own church. " The Navigat n arm of the church and not a f," Jernigansaid. ret of Navigators philosophy is tc t to take no credit for it. Accor , this is why most of the general heard of the group despite its sii times when our group goes thr r some other organization to \ e of service, the only name that d is that of the church. The Nav r even be mentioned," Jernigan fceaga Vaughan Writer s recently voiced conflicting i tax-cut bill, which Republican I Reagan supports. lation a 30 percent across-the11, but Congress would have to Is for a three-year $167.6 billion :t. Many economists say the cut or Michael Connolly disagrees, ng to say that this will be too ;al picture, taxes are going to :e, there will be an increase in I think that in the long run, this i sored by Rep. Jack Kemp (Roth (R-Del.), have estimated iree years of $604 billion, $711.4 pporters say, would reduce the 1.4 billion in J82 and $95.4 billion \ O hilliAn (ARQ hilliAn orirJ <?*70Q /.?j lyiiiivti, Miiin/u cuiu *p t ?j\J II) the thing," according to n, "is that if you can reduce ;e revenues enough to offset the tax cut). But reducing exision made by Congress, and I ?passed at all." Carter have appealed to voters > for tax decreases. But in h plan is not widely understood, lifficult to obtain. Neither S.C. ine locai ueagan lor ^resident id in the current democratic upport is limited. 's going to be inflationary and " Ellson said. ssed, and I doubt the ability of ;rnment spending to the extent Dp from increasing the deficit," *L. zing cha possible, he said. The USC-SLS constitution defines its purpose: "To spread the libertarian philosophy through an educational process aimed at improving the knowledge of its members and of the student body and society in general, particularly with reference to the idea of a free society." AppnpHinfl t rt thn liKop a kvwi vtin^ vvr titv liikA;i " tarian philosophy, American citizens should control their own lives, instead of government restricting freedom through regulations t a club f< d coor- Tho iicr* a aiv uuv/ n?v B" an organizational < Staff Affairs Office. Th ley are members, but Jer Lions to participants at an; es- double that amount. iny one DESPITE TI1ESI bers to also suffer from r ors are humorously tells o church have come into Navigators were a s > do the "I'm not really 5 ritnrf a ** * v4?..B iu name 01 rsavigaiori 1 public story of our origin se. faith with their shipi ough a As a campus or provide sponsor such activi will be social activities anc igators the Russell House said. active in intramural n'sta] i^ ' : :; ~ * J ^*~ J ~ riDput/ffoafl fJIV&IUtffllltll c spoke in Greenville Thu supports the Kemp-Roth John Parnell) ipter at I such as drug laws, anti-gay laws nnhlir pHiinatinn tho , ! V,IV draft and heavy taxation. THE SLS HAS chapters at the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton and other major universities. It has 150 chapters and 2,000 members. During the spring of 1981, SLS will focus on draft registration resistance and repeal of the Blue Laws, Grant said. "If you are happy with the way things are, 11 you like living under the constant threat of war )r sailors tors chapter operates under charter through the Student e chapter has 50 regular nigan said the number of y particular event may be 3 FIGURES, the Navigators elative obscurity. Jernigan f the many times students mpptincs thinWinc* O" ailing club. iure about how we got the 5," Jernigan said. "But one concerns men sharing their nates while in the Navy." ganization, the Navigators ties as dorm Bible studies, 1 monthly rallies, usually at The Navigators are also sports. * cut m 1 S^v ''>:::'V j 5 ? | andidate Ronald Reagan rsday. Reagan strongly tax cut bill. (Photo by r]RC. and the ever-increasing erosion of your civil liberties, fine. If you are not, then you should consider the libertarian philosophy," Grant said. 3t use I Carolina Care?, tt fljgpp Iu4e ?$$?? drive, will hold att| organisational meeting in EH Em. at 7:30 i*.m -, ' -'\T. \jv -N w^ll^^Stefew; ^anlsh?C||on^^|^ j AIM Hitchcock's If s>^Pw ?jW?at:h?rS?; - ,:^|-v< >.-. f|? ^ ' ; Today: Fair and warm. Highs fn fWf 7V& Tuesday: Partly cloudy with a 60 percent chance of showers, ^"iii mum*/