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Students lobl By College Press Service Students opposed to raising the legal drinking age in their states have apparently 1 won most of their legislative battles this spr- ' ing, according to a check with various state legislatures. "It looks like it (the move to raise the drinking age) has been pretty much held off for now," says Bob Bingaman, head of the State Student Association in Washington, D.C., and organizer of various state efforts to keep the legal drinking age under 21. 1 Twenty-eight states and the District of < Columbia considered bills to raise their drinking ages this spring, but only Virginia and West Virginia actually have oassed new drinking age laws, says Mindy Gaynes of the < National Conference of State Legislatures. Pruitt Continued from page 1 He said the student affairs administration members share the same kinds of rewarding expei working with students. He said the typical faculty spend extra time with students who he thinks are blems even though he doesn't get paid extra for h fort. He gets rewarded when the student benefits fi cern and then thanks the professor for Pruitt said "faculty members will tell me that ti again. We get the same feeling with working with they do." "STUDENTS LOOK at the faculty and admii adversaries, but we really want them to succeed, develop as a person." Because he enjoys working with students to d leadership potential, Pruitt will also teach a Un ciass oesiaes continuing his duties in the stu< department. BESIDES HIS involvement with students in thi Pruitt has spoken at leadership seminars and work colleges and universities across the country sin guess it's the teacher in me coming out," he said His career in running leadership/life enrichn developed from his college days at Armstrong Si Pruitt went to Armstrong on an athletic schc became captain of the baseball team and student dent. Because of his leadership position, he was se workshops in developing communication skills ar qualities. "I was in college between '68 and '72, the tim unrest, and the way the administration fought st was to familiarize students with leadership e; values clarification exercises," he said. Pruitt said his entrance into the student affairs was unexpected. He planned to pursue a basebal because he was a student leader and recipient oi 'A' Award" as the outstanding graduating senic dent of the college offered him a job as director o tivities and orientation. "They were looking f cheap who'd do a good job," he said. School of Publi From Staff Reports A $5,000 grant from Humana Inc., has been given to USC's School of Public Health to upgrade and improve its microcomputer lab used for hospital and administrative research. Presenting the check in ceremonies Thursday was William Atkinson, a graduate of USC's Health Administration program. Atkinson is project director of the proposed Humana Northeast Community Hospital in Columbia. "This grant," Atkinson said, "is part of a larger Humana campaign to find ways to work creatively with schools and universities. Several graduates of USC's Health Ad- j ministration program have joined Humana's Administrative Specialist Program, and we ( look forward to close working relationships with the university in the future." Accepting the check, Dr. Roger Amidon, chairman of USC's Department of Health Administration, said the grant will enable the school to conduct more detailed research into improving the efficiency of hospital admissions and staffing. USC'S WALLACE Thompson Student Health Center has been accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Inc., for one year. The accreditation award recognizes substantial compliance with nationally accepted standards concerning rights of pa- 1 tients, governance, administration, quality I ly against bil Legislatures in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana and South Dakota have either defeated or left their drinking age bills in limbo for this session. The move to raise the drinking age has been going on for several years, but gained renewed momentum this spring after Reagan cabinet members urged all states to raise their legal limits to 21 years of age. At least 20 states had already raised the egal limit for some kinds of wines and liquors before this spring, and 21 states still let 18-year-olds drink alcohol legally. The impulse to toughen all liquor laws got sven stronger when the National Institute on (\lcohol Abuse and Alcoholism said it had 1 and faculty ) j ricnccs from listration as iB to learn and jg evelop their , Jfl : .iversity 101 feiiijM lent affairs . *?V V^g e classroom, ^y| shops at 198 ce 1975. "I lent retreats ate College. ^|||^^| IPfelra )larship and body presi ? department 1 career, but SiQfliflfl UD f the "Silver si 51 r >r, the presi- An incoming freshman ch f student ac- psychology during freshman or someone new students began June 6 t _ i B : U 11631111 3CC6E of care, medical records, professional improvement, facilities and environment, surgical services, pharmaceutical services, pathology and medical laboratory services, radiology services, other professional and technical services, teaching and publication and research activities. The center is also accredited by the American College Health Association ? an accreditation it has held since 1979. IN LAST week's chart on USC's tuition increases, the Gamecock incorrectly lined up the semester increases with the respective classes of full-time and part-time students. For resident and non-resident full-time students, respectively, tuition will be $720 and $1,485 for undergraduates; $720 and $720, graduates; $820 and $1,635, law; $1,500 and $3,000, medical. Part-time fees per credit hour will increase to $58 and $125 for undergraduates; $68 and $1^ law anrl SIfJC\ ornHnatM- u/hilp r#? O* """^ v maining $50 for in-state and out-of-state certified teachers. A MAJOR South Carolina financial association has ioined forces with USC to help provide handicapped persons with easier access to services designed to help them. The S.C. Consumer Finance Association las set up a collection campaign in its.more :han 300 state-wide offices with proceeds go lis to raise di discovered the number of alcohol-related injuries declined in states with newly-raised drinking ages. State student groups, generally opposed to raising the drinking age, this spring changed lobbying techniques in many legislatures, Bingaman says. Generally abandoning the old "if-you'reold-enough-to-go-to-war-you're-old-enough to-drink" argument, students in many states used more sophisticated civil rights and governmental arguments. "Students aren't saying they're in favor of DWI (driving while intoxicated)," says Bingaman, who worked with student lobbyists in Georgia, Kansas, Florida and Wisconsin. "We're saying we're in favor of I Meri the new class ters to friends HE WRITF line of shiftles yet rootless, 1 t- peer * i SV, I passing on to move ^ and m uncertainties M?to i>y oaw Gr|fn?ev one ever saw ALTHOUC Meriwether s? ecks the class schedule for reading "The n r i ant at in n Tlio nrnnmm ,nr wiivii?u?iun? no piuyium iui Meriwetner md continues through July 7. thirteenth of difficult" to ( its grant to aid news briefs ing to the South Carolina Handicapped Services Information System. In addition to collections in these local offices, two corporate members of the association have provided the organization with financial support. MASTER'S DEGREE programs in audiology and speech-language pathology in USC's College of Health have been reac credited oy tne Education I raining Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Accreditation. by the Education Training Board assures a graduate that academic and clinical practicum experience meets nationally established standards. The accreditation must be renewed every five years. PERFORMANCES AND talks by some 30 followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon will begin at noon tomorrow and continue until 7 n m in front of the State Canitnl Interspersed with musical and comical performances by members of the International One World Crusade and the Unification Church of South Carolina, talks will be given by crusade director Terry Walton,' state rinking age responsible use of alcohol." Student groups in Kansas and Georgia, for example, ottered alternatives to raising the drinking age. The Associated Students of Kansas sponsored two bills, one making it illegal to drive while drinking 3.2 beer and another making it harder to fake identification. Both bills passed. The Georgia Student Assoiciation convinced their state legislature to skip raising the j - 1 - " ? annKing age in lavor ol a more comprehensive alcohol education program, which would start in the state's junior high schools. Students also argued that raising the drinking age "really runs counter to the Reagan principle of decentralization, because it places government in a very active role in determining morals," Bingaman adds. 0 "fa 0 Continued from page 1 of poor whites, who he calls "rednecks" in let IS: "The Snopes sprang untarnished from a long s tenant farmers ? a race that is of the land and ike mistletoe; owing nothing to the soil, giving nd getting nothing of it in return; using the land istead of an imperious yet abundant mistress, another farm. ind dull and clannish, they move and halt and uitipiy ana marry ana multiply like rabbits: ana you have political hangers-on ana profestolders and Prohibition officers; reduce the d you have mold on cheese." itter to Horace Liveright, Faulkner admits his about the future, adding that he is working ly" on a book that he believes will take three or do. itions another book he plans to finish by spring as "Father Abraham." HER SAID the ideas behind the book were also Lay Dying" (1930) and "Absalom, Absalom*" nopes family resurfaced in "The Town" (1957) ansion" (19591. which finished the triloov that The Hamlet."" tbouts of the manuscript before it switched hands lattan rare-book dealer to the New York Public 53 is still unknown. purchased the book for $300 because its Arents ecialized in any writings containing a reference to ler story's opening page contains the sentence: bacco constantly and steadily and slowly, and no his eyelids closed." THE missing page never has turned up, lid, "we know fairly well what happened" from Hamlet." said Faulkner's handwriting, about onean inch in height, was "partly easy and partly lecipher. in research director Michael Beard and female evangelist Alice Boutte. FIVE PERSONS have been elected to four-year terms on the board of directors of USC's Educational Foundation. The new board members are Jack Wellman, chairman of the board of Wellman Industries Inc., Johnsonville; attorney Edward Royall, former USC alumni association president, Camden; Wilbur Smith, chairman of the board of Wilbur Smith and Associates Inc., Columbia; Jarrett Davis, insurance agent, Atlanta; and Eugene Lockhart, retired Owens-Corning executive who will represent USC's four-year system campuses, Aiken. In addition. J. Bratton Davis nf Polnm bia, judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for South Carolina, was elected vice president of the foundation. JEANETTE GUINN, a USC graduate student, has been selected to serve a two-year *1 I I ? C .11 . 4.1 VT~ iciiii uii mc uuaiu ui uiicclui* ui mc national Association for Campus Activities. The organization is the largest and most influential organization in the field of campus activities programming, with a membership of more than 90() colleges and universities, and nearly 550 associated firms in the contemporary entertainment, performing and fine arts, recreation, travel and leisure services industries.