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Awards Day winners p. 3 dS?S&. -TC^ ? ? ^ Spring Bizarre ends p. 10 April 22, 1983 Florida players sign p. 13 | il University of South Carolina - Supreme I By Ann Applegate Jim Doyle's appeal to invalidate the March 8 Student Government elections was denied early yesterday by the USC Supreme Court. After hearing more than six hours of testimony, the Court unanimously ruled, "insufficient evidence exists to declare the ^ r i. 1 * * I lcsuust ui me iviarcn o, iv?j elections ? invalid." The Court's written statement said, "Despite irregularities documented during this hearing, many of the problems appeared to result from a number of sources, but not from the election commission (sic) only. "NOR DOES there appear to be any evidence that irregularities were created by any person for any particular purpose, with the effect that the election results were manipulated or altered." Doyle said he will wait to decide whether # to appeal the Court's decision to USC President James Holderman. Speaking for the Court, Chief Justice John Pincelli said. "Mr. Jim Dovle has done Stu dent Government a meaningful service." Doyle, who finished second in a three-way race for president, said he was disappointed \i/ith fViP an?Ann/><3?r1 of O* 1 A n m VT nil tJIV VIVVIOIUII) UUUVUUVVU Ul C4 111 yesterday. "I didn't spend $150 to be commended for doing good service for the university. I ran so I could win and change Student Government. "I THINK it does me no justice what'? soever ? or the students. This Court was very professional compared to Campus Court. I have no qualms about the way they ran this court." SG Attorney General Mark Jones said, "I'm real pleased with the outcome. It was a fair decision, the only reasonable decision considering everything." Jones said he doesn't expect Doyle to appeal. Elections Commissioner Chip Harriford said the verdict gives the commission a 4 liidiiuaic Hum inc \_uun uicti uic |jiucc:>:> needs to be changed." SG PRESIDENT Ashley Abel said, "What was decided was just. The verdict is evidence to the fact that it was fair and just." r riuyiani biiuv drinking effecl By Nancy Young Six people were driving under the influence of alcohol in Columbia Hall Tuesday night. They were part of a program called Columbia Hall DUI 500, which showed how drinking impairs driving ability. <& The event was part of Alcohol Awareness Week, sponsored by the Campus Alcohol Project and the LivingLearning Program. The hppr was sunn lied bv Sunbelt Distributors. SIX STUDENTS volunteered to drink as many beers as they could and test their driving ability on a video game. "This (DUI) has been a problem at USC," Mike Shaver, director of C.A.P. said. He referred to a statistical chart showing that 39.7 percent of drivers between the ages of 18 and 25 are involved in alcohol-related $ accidents. "Our purpose in doing this is to show that the effects are real. They happen to both sexes of all sizes, which is why we have three girls and three guys of different sizes here," f l. IA lie :>aiu. The students, Kay Anglin, Beth Rainey, Sydne Waller, Brian Beans, Steve Rosenstein anrl Holland first nlaved an obstacle course video game sober and then again after drinking beer. ^ Scoring was measured by the distance driven without being hit. AFTERWARD, they took a breathalizer Court denii \ / 1^' f U HBI :;.^F SSgm Chief Student Advocate Blake Martin (left; before the USC Supreme Court. The Cour March 8 election was valid. - Doyle'a counsel, Chief Student Advocate 5 Blake Martin, nresented the anneal to Cam- 1 pus Court April 7. Martin based the case on ! the SG election code section that states the Elections Commission must ensure all elections are run in a "fair, equitable and just t manner." < Martin said the election should be declared i invalid because procedural irregularities orevented it from beine fair. i He said the irregularities included the mov- ] ing or consolidation of some polling places by the Elections Commission, confusion on \is students ts on driving test administered by G.W. Dukes, an employee of the State Law Enforcement Division, who supplies and maintains breathalizer machines. To register as driving under the influence, a person must score .05 or higher on the machine. After drinking four beers, Holland, a heavy-set computer science sophomore, registered .052 on the breathalizer test, dropping from a score of 2,264 points to 1,950. "I would still drive," he said. Rainey, an early childhood education junior, scored 2,023 after three beers, 100 points higher than her sober score. Her breathalizer score was .063. "I WOULDN'T drive after four beers," she said. "I don't think it (her higher score) means anything. It proves you get better with practice.'' After five beers, Beans, a management and marketing senior, dropped from an average sober score of 1,800 to 1,647. His hreathalizer score was .084. "I wouldn't drive now," Rosenstein said after 4 1/2 beers. The statistics junior's score dropped from 1,962 to 1,623 and his breathalizer score was .094. Anglin, who scored highest on the breathalizer test with a .131, improved her score after at least seven beers from 1,995 to i in i i j puiiua. "I HAVE BETTER reflexes than most See "DUI," page 7 es Doyle'! pr.:. >:-:::-:-:-M:-::-::::::::':-^a^BMP linn MI iWl'iini'f'iii'ii'ilW'l' l li ii iBn ^-- - <'" ^V>U ^H-- --v/._ ^ ' " flPfefc N^^sVss .. ) argues a point for his client Jim Doyle t voted early yesterday to declare the where some students should vote, and im-->roner nrintinc of Dovle's name on the X I C ? ? J -- Dallot. SG ATTORNEY General Mark Jones said he elections' problems did not cost Doyle rnough votes to prevent him from forcing a runoff with Barry Gray, the election winner. Campus Court ruled that while irregularities occurred, they did not sufficiently affect the outcome of the election to invalidate it. Doyle appealed to the Supreme Court to wW ' ' State Law Enforcement Division ofticei Steve Rosenstein how to use a breathali; of a program called the Columbia Hall DU effects of drinking on driving. Six student they drank as many beers as they coulc game. i appeal hear the case. In his opening statement, Martin said the elections' problems should invalidate the results. He cited the confusion about polls as the main irregularity in the election. "A NUMBER of polling places were moved or consolidated without notice or without sufficient notice to students...sort of a mobile poll. "A number were left unattended for an undetermined amount of time ? some with ballots and ballot boxes in plain sight. "There is nothing (in the SG code) which requires a person who is going to protest the election to prove in any way he was harmed to a substantial degree or to any degree." Jones, in his opening statement, said it was important to consider whether the results 1 l 1 1 l- l *i- 1 wcie cuangeu oy ine prooiems inai occurred because "if rescheduled, the next one might be just as imperfect. "YOU'RE DEALING with an inex perienced Elections Commission. You're dealing with inexperienced pollworkers. They do the best job they possibly can. "Mr. Doyle was given a fair election ? as fair an election as you can get in this university. You're dealing with an imperfect system where these things happen year after year." Martin called nine witnesses and Jim Doyle to testify about the problems they experienced election day. Laura Ferguson, a NADA resident, said she went to the College of Journalism to vote as she did for SG elections last year. After looking for 20 minutes, she said she found the poll in the Coliseum canteen near the Elephant Room. "I ASKED (the pollworker), 'Can I help you move upstairs?' and so I did," she said. Ferguson said they moved the poll to the canteen on the Park Street side of the Col iseum and left a sign in the room from which they moved it. "I voted, but my name was not on the list, so I had to vote by contested ballot,'' she said. Ctn/lnnto miict r* oct /<r\n tnrtnrl Ko 11r\tr nrKan uiuuvuid uiuai v^uiutoitu uanuio v> iiv-n they do not have their USC identification See "Doyle," page 4. HNhWH; .Tmilttlfl vmBHWH J mr^ S^^S^W- $ ^ ; m k:. T..". ;J|M? '. w :' :?y JSEj3 ?g| < jmP' Photo by Sally McGill r Louis Macalhaney (right)demonstrates to ?er machine. The demonstration was part II 500, which showed students the various s volunteered for the experiment, in which 1 and test their ability to "drive" a video