The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, July 21, 1982, Image 1
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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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aside for the Sunday protest.
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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.
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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.
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