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^jgSSESHnSSg; -.'-?-w-?.>*?? > > ?-? ? - -? '- - ??,*~- - ?' ??? ' 'w ? o ?"~M ' ' oOii on vycxi'O i liii an a <>i 1 u i i j Horseshoe . : w-. A * r m monday New Saga services p. 4 Mr -fTn i-jfitfc jSS^. J&? Hall gets new look p. 10 JP% SrWlk Bk Au?ust 29< 1983 Injuries plague USC p. 13 ^I|bI^W|RI 1 I16W%lHl JoTyf VNo?f 1S0?U,h Car?Hna Overdrai Bad check By Forrest brown Careless university students may find themselves in trouble with their parents and the law if they write bad checks. Penalties can be rough for all bad check writers, even for those who may have made a deposit just a couple of days late. People who write bad checks for less than $200 face a $200 fine and 30 days in jail for each check. For checks worth $200 or more, i - _ _ it __ i _ i. penalties couia go as nign as one year in jail for each bad check. CAPT. RICK Johnson of the Richland County Sheriff's Department said offenders learn very quickly the seriousness of their rrimp Increased By Susan Muir Despite a $.25 million loss during ii Carl Chandler, director of Saga foo about this year. "We lost a quarter of a million doll ment, as we see it, into the program much of the loss was because of ineffi ing in management, adapting to tht employees. "And the first year you're not alw ? we're still working on efficiency < Already we're doing better ? much b in half in June and Julv." ? ? - - ' ( I* * IT WAS a good year in the standp said. Saga increased its sales abou previous year when ARA food service he said. Meal programs under ARA were at I the past, but between the fall and sp year Saga averaged more than 2,000 "As of right now the way sales art couraging. A lot of upperclassmen ar there's pretty good satisfaction with I pus," he said. Th#? rpsnlfc of twn snrvevs Saoa m satisfaction were favorable, and the surveys again this year to decide whei and food lines, Chandler said. HE SAID better-trained employees chnnlrl makp rhk vpnr more nrofitab their operating hours slightly to comp Top of Carolina will only be ope catering. Chandler said the restaurant lost three months ot operation, prompnn sity to close it down. He said any g event in the restaurant as long as the prior to the date of the event. Wade Hamptom and Patterson H been changed to increase efficiency, facilities discontinued the continental students don't want to use their me; amount of food. Aquino's de By Chris Handal (Editor's note: This news anal become a regular Monday morning r 1 ^ /-1 ?% tit 11 IM f ?*WA1t?>\AiA L/JL- fjrujcyaurz win i/c imci Ml. rn current topics in the news.) The killing last week of Benigno Aquino rocked the Philippines ai have a profound impact on thi States, according to a USC profess Aquino, leader of the Philippin tion party, had been the youngest * Philinnine historv until President I J' ] ? Marcos jailed him in 1972 on "trur charges of subversion, said Paul Ka i n n rp porru hnoi wo uai i y ncai "Most people, once they get down here, realize how serious it is then," he said. "When the jail door slams behind them, that's serious." Johnson said the problem for most university students is that their parents don't make deposits in time. Students then write checks that they think will be covered, but are not. People arrested for writing bad checks constituted more than half of the people arrested in Richland County last year, excluding traffic violators. In 1982, 11,000 people were arrested in the county, and 6,000 of those arrests were for bad checks. JOHNSON SAID a minority of people write checks just in an effort efficiency ts first year on campus. ! >d service, is optimistic | ars.but it was an investhe said, adding that ^k^ ciency relocating, bringi facilities and training ays completely efficient ||\ / ?*?$?&! and training employees. etter. We've cut our loss oiitt of sales," Chandler j it 35 percent over the 1 ran the dining facilities, i a maximum of 1,200 in >ring semesters mis pasi meal plan sales. i coming in, it's real ene buying and that means he meal service on camade to check on student > tTi t-\'i n\i nlanc Io 11cf> " ijs ther to start new services and improved efficiency ilc, and Saga has altered ?ensate. For example, the n on Sundays and for $30,000 during its first g Saga to ask the univerroup can have a catered I ly notify Saga two weeks j all breakfast hours have 1 Chandler said the two [ I breakfast hours because al plan cards for a small . , . Lunch tir See "Sage," page 4 Students sath brings i a I JSC government and i ? o ? * 'ysis will professor who knew Aqi feature. Aquino, sentenced to ?d about JaiI f?r almost eight yes regime allowed him to c ncai i mji kci y . "Ninoy nd could HE STAYED in th< e United three years giving lecti or. universities including U! e opposi- Finally, Aquino deci J C I. ? ? ienator in <tuu iuitc mc guvci mnci 7erdinand him back or allow ni npcd up" guarded and wearing ittenburg, Aquino was killed as Ik ry penalty; ti to steal money. Carelessness in keeping up with checking account balances is the main culprit. Bad checks as high as $10,000 and as low as $1.50 have come to the sheriff's office, he said. USC is just one of the institutions ihat receive bad checks. During this past school year, the school received about $1.5 million in bad checks. USC Treasurer Howard Rhodes said the university recovered about 80 percent of the money. USC had to process between 6,000 and 7,000 r? Vi r t ir norf r/-?K r\r\l ?;anr v~u<wvrv3 una )^iai t lit said. MOST OF the bad checks are a result of careless mistakes, he said. "There are very few university students who try to rip us off." r to help 5 JmHfef - 'f ..v &3&T- * it>i?(i ii ii i ii^i i JHHH| ...r > :?-.' '|Hj wm:*Vr:* ?y lliMBfnM ?H^HHBb magsfim 1 - _~-|c no i receive lunch from the grill at the Grand mcertain ful international studies iiino. nev death, remained in ===== irs until the Marcos This imined ome to America for the Marcos re* a Japanese jot guard gun Aq : United States for The Marcos ires at colleges and sion to investi SC. fhf* rircnmstai tied to return home do and damn< nt to arrest him, turn m to stay. Heavily "WHATE^ a bulletproof vest, up with will : left the plane. Weather bee, i iming called Rhodes warned students that thpv chnnlH hp farpfnl whpn u/ritino a check. "You should make sure you have sufficient funds before you write a check," he said. "It's a criminal offense. Once we serve a warrant, it "tays on your record forever." WHILE WRITING bad checks may be a problem, Gene Long, manager of Cornell Arms, said USC students don't proportionally write more bad checks than any other segment of the population. Long said the number of bad checks in the store varies each month, but it tends to increase at the end of semesters. About 95 percent of the money lost on bad checks is recovered, ? iTo P Um iayar unai j|v gHHB| *v ' ' ., ' ' Marketplace in the Russell House. ture to Philii G tjon vs analysis ^ **1 : ? Up ' liately set off speculation that they $imc was behind the killing and no-> irnalist said he saw one security A uino down. We; ; regime has formed a commis- beli igate the death but because of ord< nces, it is in a damned-if-you- V sd-if-you-don't situation. low he \ /KR THE commission comes Aq, be disputed, said Donaid /\ i USC government and interna -L" ? cmeT cause Long said. There is a returned check fee of $10. Long said if the store is given a bad check, it tries to deposit it a second time. If it doesn't clear then, the store will write a letter to the person who wrote the check and ask for the money. If the person docs not reply in 15 days, a warrant is signed out for that person. TYPICAL EXCUSES for not h^uino fnnHc pn\/pr t hp phppL'c in_ elude blaming the bank or relatives, Long said. People usually don't try to steal money from the store, but ''they may be trying to borrow it for a while," he said. tidier says mhmMRHHMIM $ Photo by M?ry Ann Hoil m ppmes al studies professor who also knew lino. "If the commission doesn't come with the peoples' foregone conclusions, r will say it's a whitewash. Marcos is in a vin situation." s for Marcos' involvement in any plot, itherbee said, "1 find it difficult to eve, if not impossible to believe, that the er came from Marcos." /eatherbee said it was possible that some er official in the Marcos regime thought i/oo rlftinn thp nrpciHpnt a favnr liv havino TOO V1VM1?5 IIIV piWtnMVUi ? *** v. V j - * O jino killed. another possibility is that the military was See "Phiflipinss," page 3