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I The Gamecock Founded 1908 Friday Volume 77, No. 54 University of South Carolina January 25, 1985 Parking Student senators I get back spaces By Linda Taylor More than 100 parking spaces have been reclaimed from the ^ city for student use, a Student Government senator announced > W during Wednesday's meeting. Efforts by the Residential Life and the Athletics/Community Affairs/Off-Campus Students committee the past semester resulted in 114 re-opened spaces near Capstone and the BA building. The semester-long project included repeated surveys run by volunteers to pinpoint unused spaces. In other business, Financc Committee spokesman Tony Price said spring fund allocation plans should be finished in two weeks. Price also said eligible organizations can attend workshops to help them set up the requirements needed to re iuiius iui iiiv, ii^vuiiiiii^ uscai ytcu . Pricc said workshop dates should appear in the Jan. 30 and Feb. 1 editions of the The Gamecock. < 0 The deadline for submitting budgets is Feb. 4, Price said. IThe Finance Committee will conduct hearings to review each budget and post tentative allocations Feb. 19. An announcement made by Sen. Mary Beth Wingatc of the Judiciary and Rules committees stated important dates in the spring election process. Aspiring candidates must file Feb. 4-11. The election is scheduled for Feb. 25-26, and run-offs are set for March 4. On a more aesthetic side of business was the proposal of a face-Iitt lor the fountains in tront of the Thomas Cooper Library. The fountains were described by Sen. Walter Kingcaid as "three ugly metal pipes." Kingcaid called the Arts Commission to request an artist-inresidence to create artwork to cover the bare pipes, but the 1 ^ commission refused. | i 'mmMM ; ); Hi MrK V 1^MF *w*-P*?lMfe& J?? 'Xmgr. .MQ. stllBimr -^i Is-'-"y-%72gsjlSlSagpry^' l ';..':::;;:^:;v-^;v:'.: .:.- -^^^3 :^;v : iL ,.L Sunsational WW The sotting tun makes its way through tha pillars ef La i \ j Legislators t I By Amy Bettonbaugn South Carolina legislators "seem to have no choice" but to pass a bill raising the legal drinking age to 21 or lose federal highway funds, Lieutenant Governor Mike Daniel said Wednesday. The House of Representees begins debate on the bill next week in the face of a federal government threat to cut highway funds by $7.6 million if the drinking age is not raised by Oct. I, 1986. Rep. David Beasley (D- Darlington, Marlboro counties) said, "States should have the fundamental right to pass laws that affect that state. If the federal government thought it was important to raise the drinking age, why didn't they pass national legislation inH stead of requiring the state to pass the I law or lose federal funds? That's I blackmail. M "If an 18 year old can marry, bor row money from the bank, put a home I in his or her name and assume the responsibility society places on a I young person but can't buy a beer, now ao you reconcile tnatf Daniel said. : "If you're old enough to bleed for your country, you're old enough to make the decision to drink," Beasley said. Other representatives want the bill ~ I . ou Schola ' moncy ^ . Li i' ' -Ki.t | outslandl 4jK I formanc< ^ Presidcni | top-quali Iuy iu to "If w from al Carolina quality i The 5 doesn't k ed to dat the amo from Liz importai working About about $3 per studi pected a said, "b ever beei A YK the Stud* said, "ai The t? the fund registrati year aft< "Wh? just gett J08EPH OARNETT / The Gwwcoch are just hours pi The " nftttrMt ThMtre. son vs. I SUCCCSStl differ on drir ? f I C s i f t t Tony Snell 1 5PQI Pra>iHant ^ ( to pass, not only to save highway funds, but to reduce the number of s alcohol related traffic fatalities. J "We know there can be a 28 percent f savings in alcohol related deaths when the age is raised to 21. Even one life c would be significant," Rep. Joyce f Hearn (R- Richland County) said. t The drinking age, which was raised 1 from 18 to 19 in June 1984 and from I 19 to 20 on Jan. 1, should have been raised to 21 initially, said Hearn, who i also serves on the House Alcohol and j Drug Abuse Study Committee. ] "It is unfair to young people coming I along to. constantly have the age : Student Sui help attract Anna Boom . 1 r?hips for in-state and out-of-state "V nts arr nnw hrino funrirH hv for <m the Student Summit Fund. tioi udent Summit Fund was specifically spr d by Student Government as an ef- pec lise these funds. lalities needed to win one of these tio lips arc leadership characteristics, let Ing acheivements and academic per- do : in high school. ba Ge MAIN goal of the scholarship" SG up [ Glenn German said, "is to recruit vo ty students from all over the coun- it < me to Carolina. p ran art (he tnn-nnnlitv ctnrlrntc f'\. v vM.. VII I over ihc country to conic to ha , we will eventually have the top $3 niversity in the country." tio tudent Summit Fund Committee th< now how much money they've rais- sp< e. "Some things are still pending on $1, unt," said German. "A donation 1 zard's Thicket and Sandy's are very thi it, and our committee is out there bu on finalizing the commitments." tiv 680 students participated, donating m< ,700. That averages out to about $5 re< ent that donated. "I personally exi higher dollar amount," German ov Lit then again, nothing like this has in; 1 done before." ar dc ak ago naraiy anyone Knew aooui cnt Summit Fund, but now, German c< t least most have heard of itpi ling that German likes most about is Student Government got it on the tc on form, and it's going to be there LJ :r year. tl re we had to spend hours and hours ^ ing it on the form, next year's people jj going to have to spend hours and () omoting it." a Wave a Dollar," done at the ClemCarolina basketball game, was very f j|. The project raised $1590. c 1 iking age :hangc. It puts a hardship on the youth ind storcowncrs and it's hard to cnorcc it," she said. Daniel said existing laws on driving jndcr the influence could be toughen :d up. "I support an even hand of justice in sentencing offenders that would make t hard on people who get caught no natter what age they are," he said. Daniel advocated educational programs in schools to "make people iware of the harmful effects and what :an happen to them if they violate or ibusc the drinking laws." The South Carolina State Student legislature opposes the bill and hopes 0 stop it at the Senate level, SCSSl. jovemor Tony Sncll said. Students should remember they have 1 voice in the state lawmaking process, inell said, and encouraged them to excess their opinions to legislators. Several key state legislators, in:luding House Speaker Raymond Schwartz and Mouse Judiciary ComV?i CU?I ...III I vimiiiiiau rvuutii onuiiccil, will jc present at a forum Feb. 14 in Russell House Room 327, Snell said. USC's Student Government is not working to slop the bill's passage, but is planning a conference on drinking laws for administrators and students in February, President Glenn German said. mammaMMHm?r?J mmit Fund to students rHE COMMITTEE had wanted to do the /ave a Dollar" project al the Florida State ttball game, but the school's administrai voted it down, saying it was too wide ead and that it would Involve too many >ple. rhe administra n did agree to . . the committcc IHC fTIQtn QuQl 1! ai,t!lc Dcc 5 of the scholarship urlhnll oamr ' xman rounded is tO FBCfUit tOp*~;. " ,um?rsa'UdC(o! J"81'1*,, aff the ground, from all over the: According to countrv " :rman, the fund LOUnirys a budget of - Glenn German ,000 for promo- SQ prf4|^t n, but not all of c money was :nt. The committee used about $!,700 to ,800 of that moncv. GERMAN SAID, "Many people seem to nk that this monev was state-allocated. t actually it is money from the student acity fund that every student pays. Also, this sney will be reimbursed with the money we :eive from the donations." "The student part of the donating is . er,"German said."We are currently focusg all of our attention on the area merchants id trying to get them to commit to >nations." Germ&n said the Student Summit I'und jmmittee will discuss an offer from a local izza delivery service. T.K.'s Pizza has said it will donate 50 cents ) the fund for each pizza delivered to the ISC campus or for each order that mentions ic offer, German said. He also said students may be allowed to elp with concessions at the upcoming Ringlig Brothers circus and recieve a percentage f the sales. German expects this to bring in n additional $3,000 for the fund. For now, German said, fund-raising eforts will conccntrate on area businesses that ater to students.