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New drinking i education, enfo By Ann Farmer and Hal Hawaii The bill raising the legal drinking age to 19 is law, and USC staff and administrators will pursue student compliance through education and enforcement. Julie Busch, USC coordinator of greek affairs, an area of student life that may be most visibly affected, said. "The bieeest thine is education. I think with the alcohol policy, you can't overeducate them on what the new laws are and what the university alcohol policy will be." Social behavior that has been acceptable in the past will need to change as the student's freedom of choice concerning alcohol becomes limited, she said. "Thp hnft Am lino ic t V* O t thoi; n ro ?/> iiv uv/i iv/iu uiiv 10 mm nivjr aiv 5UUI5 IVJ have to be more creative in their pro. amming." OUTLINES OF university alcohol policy and state law on the new legal drinking age have been sent to fraternity representative* well before rush begins and the process will be repeated to ensure a thorough understanding of the new rules, Busch said. Annette Price, co-chairman of GAMMA, Greeks Against Mismanagement of Alcohol, will be working with Busch to bring state legislators to SDeak at USC on the new law. Busch quoted the results of a recent Interfraternity Council meeting. "Rush, Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 27th and 28th will be sponsored by the IFC cabinet and will involve no fraternitysponsored alcohol parties, events." "ENFORCEMENT OF this ruling will be V\ \ f o nontlomon'c o rv rnom ont /^f trnrt nmr\nn uy gviuiviiiaii 3 051 tciiiv.111 \j 1 Li uai aiuvsug the chapters and by periodic visits of the IFC cabinet and executive board," she said. The document detailed penalties foi violations. "There is some resistance. It's hard foi students to understand this is a state law anc I A T^T TTWTT k AIM UN J_i/ SH( FIVE G&. Fpat.iirinf c California T-'s & I Flinflnrts-Ra.ridar JL ll^/JLA\yp/ PC/ ? , Wall Custon available for cli with fast delive Located at 2015 I Yesterday' ige law means rcement for USC not something the university pulled out of a hat and said, 'Hey, we need to change our alcohol policies.' To be the bad guy, that's not the case at all," she said. Mara Hudson, president of the LexingtonRichland County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said, "I would hope students don't receive the new drinking age as any kind of punishment, but as a sign of a caring society." ' "I WOULD hope that it would be interi preted as a caring piece of legislation. We do i see the age going to 20 in January '85. I Hopefully under the new directive under Congress, it will, in January '86 go to 21. > We're pushing a bill to do that," she said. Dr. Donald Swanson, director of the Counseling and Human Development Center, said attitudes toward alcohol arc ' beginning to change. People are becoming * more aware of the dangers of alcohol but the i educational process will be gradual, he said, I using the more than 20 years of anti-smoking efforts that have sharply changed the public's perception of smoking as an example. Swanson did not specifically anticipate ' more students seeking counseling due to alcohol problems, but said the center does counsel them now and that a counselor with experience in treating alcohol and substance i abuse would join the staff this fall. USC law enforcement officials said they would not turn their heads if confronted with blatant breaking of the law, but they don't anticipate any more problems for the univer: sity than before. ; "They're looking for a long-time solution to an age-old problem, and how to best save and ultimately help the student," said deputy r director Danny Baker. "We're pro-active," he said. "People r need to be educated. Education is what a 1 university is all about." UNTD SURF DP IN DATMTS A V/Al^! JL U y 100 percent otton Hawaiian Luau Shirts las-Visors-Sunglasses i i lets-i^aps i Printing lbs and organizations :rv and quality work %/ ? )evine St. across from s in Five Points i '''j ^J|!|| Pifll' ' h^ ?L ^Hk f^VH^Hr ^H Bfe ^w|^ABj Bt|L|1f Native son Jesse Jackson returns to his home state to fight the Jackson spoke at an NAACP rally on the State How Carol Inr Cl/iL V V tLCL//^C For your famil; Reduced foi Back-To$40.00 $46.00 1 Keserv; The Care 937 Assem Columbia, So I 799-* | (Please ask for special mi Ptoto by Ray Gionbng South Carolina legislature's reapportionment plan. >e steps. ) ina : Hack sc y and friends l Rates -School Qinolp L/ XX L^JL V. Double ations >lina Inn bly Street >uth Carolina 3200 Back-To-School rate) sx