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South Carolina's Best College Newspaper IVIonciay Volume LXX No. BB, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. March 9, 19B1 ^ University organization mittee, but only $400, i Fun< i OYfO IBy Donald B. Weatherbee Assistant N?wi Editor The Student Government Senate Finance Committee, which has $400,000 to distribute among licensed campus organizations, has already received allocation requests totaling more than $1.2 million, according to i eummmec memoers. More than 100 organizations have submitted budgets to the sixl member committee since allocation proceedings began Feb. 17. Committee members expect to hear funding requests from 20 more organizations before the hearings end Th rsday. According to Mike Mont Igomery, Senate Finance Committee vice chairman, USC media and sports clubs submitted the largest budgets so far, requesting funds totaling atout $300,000. WITH ONLY $400,000 to allocate, deciding which organizations should be funded and how much they | Black f 1 By L?sie\ Staf A USU black fraternity kej House patio from 5 p.m. Thu money for a special task fo *1 murders of Atlanta black chil Twenty-one chairs, symbc children, were filled during i J Phi Alpha fraternity. Some wearing black arm & clothing, the fraternity broth to brave the cold night and t their seats until 5 p.m. Friday Broderick Samuel, orgar fraternity was demonstrate Itamilies ol trie dead or missir high caliber police detectiv< nation to help Atlanta police. , "THESE ARE black child being a black fraternity, I fel get back to the basics on wh said. John Staien, Alpha Phi Alp was to collect $500 to prei Jackson later this week. He st the fraternity collected $770. Samuel said he was surpr received from both blacks ar support was predominantly fr whites donated money to the c "We have been getting m groups, which shows that tl Samuel said. TE 13 LEtAL TENDER ? TS. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE H r w t ' *1 >s are requesting $1.2 milli OOO is available for a/locatio dingi ;cd $'. should receive is a "tough process," Montgomery said. Although the committee will not formally vote on the allocation requests until Friday and Saturday, Mnntonmam oni/l MA ?TAVI?V^VAIlVi ^ OdlVl ^V711 AI11I t LCXT members do confer after each request to get a rough estimate of how much that organization will receive. When formal deliberations take place, the committee will base its funding decisions on the organization's function and how many students benefit Organization reque A vailable funds * ? from the programs offered by an organization, according to Dorothy Stefan, Finance Committee chairman. STEFAN SAID the cuinmiuee aiso consiaers an organization's past performance record and its raternit\ w i Symmonds f Writer )t a 24-hour vigil on the Russell rsday to S p.m. Friday to raise i vv otaiv.11111^ 1U1 t'lUCS IU UIC dren. tlizing the 21 dead or missing the vigil by members of Alpha bands, others wearing black ers said they were determined hreatening rain and remain in lizer of the sit-in, said the g in a show of support for the ig children and for the group of is called in from all over the ren we are talking about, and t that it would be a good idea to ich we were founded," Samuel ha vice president, said the goal sent Atlanta Mayor Maynard lid public response was so great ised by the support the group id whites. He said although the om black students, a number of :ause. oney from all kinds of ethnic lis is not just a black issue," on for next year from the I ns. requi 1 inrfcill JL IJL11JLJ "fiscal responsibility." "We look down on those organizations which have a recordof carrying a deficit," Stefan said. "If we fund an organization we expect them to raise money." With Student Government elections three days away, the committee is holding allocation proceedings at a lime wnen student Government has come under increasing attacks by USC media and by candidates questioning Student Government's performance. sts* %%$1.2 million *$400,000 THE FINANCE Committee has not been immune to these attacks. A member ol a student organization said in a recent letter to the Gamecock only three of the six committee members were present when the student submitted his ; vigil ra ^HT^nSjMM'' | aBi^B - '- ^?V.i< j^HW:.f Members of Alpha Phi the special task force i 1^ Seyfe Finance Comests lion group's budget. The student said, "I was outraged to discover the chairperson of the committee, Ms. Dorothy Stefan, was even absent from the hearing." The student questioned the performance of the committee and the lipHirAtion nf Sfpfnn u/hn ic running for Student Government president. Stefan said, since the committee does not vote during the hearings, it is not necessary for all committee members to be present. When the committee votes this weekend, all committee members will be present, cKn poirl o A iv? oaiu. ACCORDING TO Stefan, she sent letters to 100 organizations advising them to meet with her if they needed help with their budgets. She said 31 organizations responded and she worked see Finance, page 5 ises moi P8mS^:mH la^ Alpha fraternity kept a 24-hi nvestigating the Atlanta mur Profe murd Suspect in custody By Tom Coyne and John Vaughan Staff Writers A USC professor whose body was found by children playing in woods near their home died of a single gunshot wound to her chest, Q/>r>orrli nrt f n uwv/1 unig IVS IVlVllldllU County Coroner Frank E.Barron III. Barron said yesterday that Dr. Mary J. Heimberger, 44, an elementary education professor, was found about 7 p.m. Friday partially clothed in woods near U.S. Highway 321 and 1-20. Donald Ray Perry of 1520 Crossland Rd., Apartment 306, was arrested at 3:50 ? - 4- i-:~ i a.m. ounuay ai 111s iiume in connection with the shooting. Perry,a 20-year-old black, was charged with murder and will be arraigned today in General Sessions Court. Capt. Jim MacCaulley of Studen in 4-cai By John ^ Staff V An 18-year-old USC studen morning in a four-car accident northeast area of Columbia. Samuel K. Bernstein,of 6181 was killed about 12:15 a.m. Robertson of the S.C. Departn Transportation. Bernstein was a passenger Glasgow of Columbia. Rober only person killed in the accide investigation, and no arrests Tuesday, he said. ley for I 1 M0j|B KMaMMgHta JsSti.: i -+Y; our vigil on Russell House p ders (Photo by Jose Pangs ssor p.rfid Department deputies had been searching the area when children discovered the body, according to MacCaulley. HEIMBERGER attended a class at Carver Elementary School Thursday see Professor, page J t killed crash /auahan Vrh*r it was killed early Sunday on North Springs Road in the &astshore Road in Columbia, , according to Officer T.H. nent of Highways and Public in a car driven by James D. tson said Bernstein was the int. The accident is still under i had been made as of late see Student, page 3 \tlanta mm * Fjb mHk >atio to raise money for \niban) ' S f Mary J. Heimberger the Richland County Sheriff's Department said no motive has been determined, but a police source told the Gamecock the motive was robbery About 30 Sheriff's