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SouthiiCaro 1 iniana^sLi brary \ Horseshoe j i impair cri By Chris Handal tents who neglect to pay their Student Account Number bills hurt themselves as well as the phone company, according to manager at Southern Bell Telephone and T* * ^raph Co. lv^ry Strickland said if a late-bill notice is sent to a student, his or her credit with the phone company is damaged. "If you ever want telephone service, that account (the individual's STAN account) is checked, and if late notices were sent you might have to pay a deposit," Strickland said. If a student fails to pay the bill after the late notice is sent, a Southern Bell representative phones the student and explains the consequences of not paying, she said. IF THE BILL remains unpaid, Southerr Bell then refers the account to a collectior agency. The reference, according tc Strickland, can hurt a student's credi outside the phone company. She said sending an account to a collectioi agency could damage the student'! references when he tries to buy something on credit. Most students are unaware late notice can affect their credit, even though ; brochure STAN students receive at th< beginning of the school year explains th consequences of unpaid bills, Stricklam said. THE PERCENTAGE of delinquent ac counts was lower in 1980 and 1981 than ii 1979. Delinquency in 1982 is expected to b almost the same as in 1979. USC student By Forrest Brown Six anti-nuclear demonstrators, includin one former and one current USC studen will receive a jury trial on charges < trespassing on federal property. In a preliminary hearing held this pai Friday, U.S. District Judge Charles I Simons Jr. ruled that the six, arrested f< trespassing on the front lawn of the Mai Administration Building at the Savanns River Plant Monday, May 31, will receive jury trial August 2 in Aiken. The ruling for a jury trial was mac despite the objections of the prosecutii attorney. SPECIAL ASSISTANT U.S. Attorn< r? 01.11.? ?:J 11? 1 i~ J:J _ uave oiaiu;iy &aiu uie uexeiiuauis uiu 11 need a jury trial because the charge against them are considered minor, a cording to an article in the July 17th issue the The State. Among those arrested were Micha Gooding of Columbia, a former student ai one-time news editor of the Gamecock, ai Barbara Smith of Pennsylvania, a stude at the university. Also arrested were Mitch Yarborough Columbia, Chris Kueny and Rosema Freriks of Jo Rosemary Freriks, Michael Gooding (form for trespassing at the Savannah River Plai hone bills F>riit ratinn Reliable figures for the years before 1979 are unavailable because Southern Bell changed its billing system for STAN accounts after 1978, she said. Southern Bell billed 50,760 accounts in 1979, Strickland said. Of those billed, 756 accounts, or 1.5 percent, were referred to a collection agency. Unpaid bills totaled $22,656 in 1979. IN 1980.312 accounts, or .5 percent of the 52,248 billed ,were delinquent, Strickland said. Unpaid bills reached a total of $15,600. [ The number of accounts referred to an agency in 1981 was 504, .9 percent of the 53,448 billed, she said. Unpaid bills totaled $25,000. ' Strickland said projected figures for 1982 show 780, or 1.4 percent, of 57,276 accounts billed being referred to a collection aeencv Unpaid bills are expected to total $37,200. 1 Although the number of delinquent ac1 counts remains a small percentage of the } accounts billed, it is expected that the * average number of STAN accounts referred to a collection agency per month will in1 crease 150 percent during the 1980-82 period. 5 5 THE AVERAGE number of accounts billed each month is expected to increase 9 5 percent in the same three-year period. 1 The average unpaid bill in 1979 was $30, e .. but in 1980 it rose to $50, where it has e remained, she said. d "It (the increase in unpaid bills) is not because there are more STAN card accounts and not because there are more students. Students are just not paying as n well as they have in the past," she said. e "Looking from the inside, it is hard for us to understand why they don't pay their bills." yB B n B^1 aiicoicu eii an Penley of Asheville, N.C. ~ The demonstrators arrested also parj* ticipated in a mass rally held Sunday, May 30. The primary sponsor of the Sunday rally was the Natural Guard, a group dedicated to the environmental preservation. THE ACTIONS of the six defendants m resulted from a "spur of the moment decision," according to Freriks. Gooding said the Monday protest was independent oi the Natural Guard. le Participants in the Sunday rall> demonstrated against the role of the K Savannah River Plant in the production ol nuclear weapons. The plant is the United States' only producer of plutonium, a necessary component of nuclear weapons. "We each felt individually that we must I rally and take a stronger stand," Penley 01 said. I Five of the protestors are represented by . Columbia attorney John Delgado. Penle> . has been granted a request to represent nt himself. Penley has asked Simons to remove of himself from the case because Simons owns ry 100 shares of stock in E.I. DuPont and Co., hn which operates the Savannah River Plant Photo by C?p?rt Hammond er USC student) .jind John Penley were errested it. 42,000 | | 39,000 j $not 36,000 11 f ^ 33'??? collected 30,000 from USC 27,000 c STAN card 24,ooo holders 21,000 18,000 15,000 12,000 ! '79 j 800 use STAN j 700 cardholders ^ fJVtf ! referred to goo ; j collection sso : ,v: / :: . i agency for 500 twio effective. i dsn v failure to ? 400 frauduten titiftitotaiy pay ' ' 300 | '79 ti-nucSear den for the federal government. According The State, the judge said he not ethically bound to remove himself froi the case unless DuPont is directly involve in the trial. THE SIX protestors were arrested t licensed law enforcement officers employ* by DuPont, but Simons said, "I don't thir the arresting officers have anything to < with it." Penley disagrees with the judge. "The arresting officers told us th< worked for DuPont," Penley said, "ar we're going to be tried by a DuPont sUx 1 holder. I don't think I can get a fair trial." Controversy accompanied the May 30 ar 31 protests before they occurred. Tuesda May 25, the Natural Guard petitioned for permit to protest on the front lawn of tl plant's main administration buildir on Sunday, May 30. GOODING AND PEN LEY said Let Gasque, assistant director of the State La Enforcement Division, testified in cou May 25 that Communists, Nazis, Klansmc and other outside agitators bent on tl destruction of the United States would be < the rally Sunday to cause trouble. Gooding said Gasque had no proof outsic agitators would be at the rally and h statements would encourage those groups i cause trouble. Hugh Munn, spokesman for Gasque ar SLED, said Gasque's statements have bee misconstrued. Munn said Gasque thought the Natun Guard had peaceful motives but sai Gasatie believed it had nn wnv nf nrpvpntir outside agitation groups from causir trouble. The May 26 ruling handed down by Judj; Solomon Blatt Jr. stated the protestoi could not demonstrate on the front lawn the administration building, but an alte native site about four miles away was s Southern Bell f elephom; ar?ii Teteqiaph Cc, 'JSC Student Tohsphnne Account fcimni er I (3) TO8' | v,z*s alls charged ty ihts No ar? the rcspo<isibl ??: John <) Isiiidonf Box 85 t il Coluinh la, SC 29208 '?0 '81 '82 ^ear projected >ORTANT NOTICE!! 15) Southern Bell ati is* you that your S en Accwttf has hstm ^ for not payment. Any tartaer Iouq wis cnargau ta :tu: number will ac M?pjM<icrea t > :iri treated atcord oglif, Pteron contact us sra ' makspayment Htm ' < i '80 '81 82 * I year projected J lonsfration aside for the Sunday protest. is m THE SIX MEMBERS of the Monday id protest said they believe their rights were violated when they were arrested on the front lawn of the administration building. >y "The administration building was more or id less open to the public before the protest," lk Gooding saidio Freriks added, "Some of the people arrested have been there before, and they weren't arrested then.'' *y A Savannah River Plant spokesman said id the administration building is open to the :k public solely for business purposes and only at specified times. id CLIF WEBB, deputy director of the office y, of external affairs, said the six arrested on a Monday were violating the Atomic Energy ie Act of 1954, which prohibits trespassing on ig federal property posted "no trespassing Webb said the public has access to the building and the front lawn for business >n purposes. w The six were warned three times to leave rt the property and then arrested. They were ?n taken to magistrate's court in Aiken and ie then moved to the Richland County Jail, at Modjeska Simkins, a leading civil rights advocate, posted $6,000 Dan tor tne release ie of the six. Bail was $1,000 a piece. inside Summer Session II enrollment includes more than 1,000 fewer undergraduates than I Session I's enrollment. Page two. id (g Workshop Theatre's "4 One Acts in I Evening" is an entertaining and significant theatrical event. Page five. ?e Andrew Provence, a possible AIIrs American candidate, said he is a student of first and a football player second. Page ir- seven. et .