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- V W \ / J ' - ' I ~ P^T* . **> ?? .? ; : JOSEPH GARNETT'The Gamecock The U.S.. South Carolina and Confederate (lags fly over I the State House. i i ( I 5 Two frvvcck Sessions Classes held Monday - Thursday The Unive State legislators S.C. Senate considers voluntary school prayer )u Marin Fratiic ' r ,M "M ***** \ S.( . Senate bill allowing public school teachers to open be school day with prayei is being considered by the ednca ion committee and has a good chance of passing, according to >en. Joe W ilson. R I CMiigton. I lie bill, which is "to permit teachers in ;tll grades in public idiools to announce that ?t petiod ol silence must be observed or meditation 01 \oluntai\ piayei ;it the commencement of he school day," conlorms to Supreme < ourt rulings. Wilson aid. The prayer will be purely voluntary. "They don't have to Participate," he said. "It's less than what I lived through in chool." According to Sen. Alex Macaulay, D-Oconcc, the bill isn't is dangerous as some may think. *'Everybody thinks that it is rstablishing a religion, but they haven't been able to tell me vhich one," he said. However, the ComuumilN Relations Council of the Columbia United Jewish Wei I are lederation has sent an alert to ncmhcrs o! the Jewish communitv askiuu their suppoit in opiosiiiu thvp hill. I he alert claims oi^ani/ed prayer is unconstitutional and liscrimiuatorv and that it violates separation ol church and tate. "I fully uiulerstand their point ol view," Wilson said. Shealy supports lottery a n >y Hssuuiaieu rress Sen. K\an Shcal\. K-l e\ington, says a state lottery is the test option to raising property taxes to generate new state eveime loi indigent health care. A stale run lotterx could raise up to SKO million a year, lie old the Richland Sertoma Club on Monday. Shealy has authored two lottery bills in the Senate this term. )ne proposes an organizational structure lor running a lot crs, and I he second calls for a referendum to permit a change n the state constitution. live yourself d 1III1C extra credit at Carolina summer r> n _ * mjiiooi I ' 't * < rsity of Soutl "&JMk i keeping busy * Both bills arc in Senate committees, and Shealy said he doesn't really expect them to get favorable action before the (iencral Assembly adjourns in June. "Three-fourths of the senators would like to have u but are airam to vote 101 n, Mieaiv sum. acKiiowieiigmg trial ll\c liaplisi ('ourier lias organized a si rong loner -writing campaign against his proposals. lie saul lotteries have heen aroniul since the time ol lonali and thai government ollicials Ironi ( aesat lo Ihomas lei leison used them lo taise niones. lotteries weio used in this country until the Civil War, when ihey were outlawed because ol corruption and alack ol govoi ninent regulation, he added. "So il it's a sin. I don't know when n became a sin." he said Seventeen stales have lotteries, and voteis in loui more recently approved them. Opinion polls lui\e shown that about SO percent of the people approve ot them, ami more than 60 percent participate in them, SheaK said. "I'eople really want to play 'em." he said. I - _ II" Legislator pay laiuea # By Associated Press A 25 percent pa\ raise approved by (he House of Representatives would put South C arolina lawmakers among the top 20 li i < litnl ,ii./1 ,i, fli.. J/C..V. IVf,..llM?U. 1 III IIIV I I (ft I I\/I I Hut researchers warn tliai salaries alone don't always paint a true picture ol the compensation legislators receive because states use so many other types of compensation, from unvoucheted expense accounts to private secretaries. I lie House earlier tins mouth voted itself and members of the Senate a raise from $l().(KK)a year to SI2.5CX). The increase could run into trouble in the Senate, where it's sure to spark (lilt itlc 11 lAi 'ntiiitii) hiuliii'l 1 en stales don't pay annual salaries, substituting a daily pay rate while the legislature is in session. Of the 40 others, Alaska pays the highest at $46,800 and New Hampshire the lowest at SI 00 mil i id11> wui.iDiis vai lino nyuring annual compensation, lor example, inosi South Carolina lawmakers share the work clone by secretaries, while some states provide individual secretaries. South Carolina lawmakers receive $68 for living expenses for each day the General Assembly is in session, but legislators in some other states receive daily expenses year round. ? V" "V -i! . * ~'NV : i ^ - /rV qp J : ' P A(1 viscilUMtl Aiuil I r 4 ?|/i I ? 9 P ? r:<irlv Kctf isl mfion ? April 2<> -May 7 r- - # Summer Mnslcr S( hcdulc of Classes is now available. Sec your advisor aiwi nlan now to enroll in Summer School. '' "???? ./