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S.C. State Studi elects USC stud By Laura Dannhardt A USC student has been elected governor of the South Carolina State Student Legislature for the second consecutive year. Tony Snell, who served as speaker pro-tem of the house in the 1982-83 session, will follow Ricky Wade as governor from USC. Snell was elected from a ballot of three candidates including Bill Barry, a student from Winthrop who served this year as president pro-tem of the Senate and Mark Roberts, a delegate from South Carolina State. Snell received 60 votes to Barry's 32 and Roberts' 12. The legislature, a bicameral body of students from 18 schools throughout the state that meets at the State House, elected Snell Sunday evening after two days of bill introduction and debate. BEGINNING FRIDAY, each school presented original bills to the session. Bills that passed both the House and Senate were ~ piCSCIllCU IU WdUC 1UI ctppiUVdl. Snell said the main goal of his administration is to package the pieces of legislature in a manual by February, in time to present them to the General Assembly. "I think the most important factor is the lobbying effect," Snell said. "We need to see our legislation get through." In his acceptance speech, Snell presented five objectives for the upcoming student sessions. He said students should "increase our lobbying efforts so that the legislation we passed in these four days would have a better chance of passing the General Assembly." Also ot importance was for students to "install a grass-roots effort. We must meet the senators and representatives at home, where they are working, not just those in the capitol. It's a statewide effort." A PRIMARY concern for continuance of the legislative program was also stressed in Snell's objectives. Snell advocated solicitation of funds and a budget increase to hire an executive director to run the SC SSI office in the capitol complex. WELCOME TO ... I VILLAGE SQUARE CE [ ? SUMTER ST., ACROSS | GRANBY VILLAGE CTR., C '* RH8 M ;nt Legislature r?n+ nmirtrnnr ciii yuvGiiiui Snell plans to "involve SCSSL in nationwide efforts to organize a national student congress," and to "get out more to the other states and start student legislatures there, work with them and advise them." More than 100 pieces of legislation were introduced in this year's student legislature. Nearly 30 bills, amendments and resolutions met defeat. Major bills passing both houses I were those that increased the state sales tax to 5 cents, raised the minimum salary of elementary and secondary school teachers, established mandatory sentences for conviction of rape, and abolished all Blue Laws except those dealing with the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The delegation from USC proposed four bills that met early success. CHARLES BICKLEY, a senator on the Ways and Means Committee, proposed a bill to "provide an adequate allowance for the well-being of foster children" by increasing the present state allowance 150 percent. Perry Stradford, also of USC, introduced a bill that would make hazing by organizations in colleges and universities illegal and punishable by a mandatory fine of not less than $100 and no more than $500, as well as suspension from school for not less than one year." A bill to "establish a uniform freshman English program in the high schools through the state of South Carolina for college-bound students," was proposed by Dwayne Edwards, a representative of the Labor, Com- ! merce and Industry Committee. A bill written by Robert Gabe, represen tauve 01 me taucaiion Lommuicc, suggested the establishment "of a statute giving the board of trustees of the school districts in South Carolina the ability to grant teachers sabbatical leave." 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