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' The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Monday
Volume 79, No. 48 University of South Carolina January 26, 1987
Senate seats
reduced by
amendment
By TODD HINES
Senior reporter
The number of senate scats on
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rcduccd this semester because of
an amendment passed by the Student
Senate last fall.
The amendment altered both
the representation and number of
student senators to represent the
15 colleges with 42 scats, down
. from 51.
The new senate will conccntratc
more on representing both
on- and off-campus students by
electing officers to specific colleges
with a ratio equal to the
number of students in those col^
leges. On-campus students will
no longer be represented through
their residential area.
For the first 1,0()1 students, a
college will have two senators.
For every additional 1,000
students, the college will add one
senator up to a maximum of five.
In the proccss of selecting a
new system last semester, thesenators
reviewed at least three
other proposals jto change the
1972 constitution's system of
electing senators to represent
residence halls.
The proposed constitution,
passed as a bill by the senate last
fall, must go through review by
the Student Trustee Liaison
Committee before being
presented as a referendum on the
Feb. 25 SG election ballot, Vice
President Kobert Ucall said. A
referendum is a popular vote to a
measure passed by a legislative
body.
If it is passed by the STLC, the
Constitutional Rewrite Committee
will present the student vote
for the proposed constitution as
the final step in a process that
began last November.
Students
m 35.000 attend froi
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By MARY PEARSON
Senior reporter
CUMMINCi, Ca. ? About
100 USC students went in buses
and cars to participate in a civil
rights protest march into allwhite
Forsyth County Saturday.
About 35,000 people from all
over the country attended the
march from the edge of the county
into the county scat of Cuinm9
ing, about 40 miles from Atlanta,
said Alexander Gray, coordinator
for Carolina Peace
Resource Center.
The march was in response to
violence that occurred in a similar
march last weekend when Ku
Klux Klan members pelted 75
black and white participants with
rocks and bottles.
Student groups included
USC's chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement
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Africa Alliance, Alliance For
Peace, Alpha Kappa Phi and
Alpha Kappa Alpha.
About 100 Columbia residents
and 30 USC students gathered at
3 a.m. at Labson Presbyterian
Church on Sumter Street and
boarded two buses destined for
Atlanta to join a convoy of 100
buses headed to Forsyth.
But because officials of the
march had underestimated the
number of people who showed up
in Atlanta for the march, more
buses had to be chartered for the
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The men and women swimming teams met against N.C.
beat N.C. State but lost to Tennessee.
New laws, rule
By EDWARD BOHAN
News reporter
Declaring financial independence next year is go
ing to be more difficult than in the past.
Under a new act by Congress, undergraduatt
students under the age of 24 will find it nearly im
possible to claim financial independence, said Join
Bannister, director of financial aid.
A student will only be able to claim independence
in cases where the student is an orphan, ward of thi
court, married or a veteran, Bannister said.
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independence rigidly," he said.
Bannister said in previous years, affluent familic
would not support their children, thereby placinj
faculty join
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trip. Nearly 500 buses were
chartered before the marchers [ ^
left Atlanta.
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ny 11 a.m., mc press reponeu . ?
that 20,000 people had arrived in jU
Atlanta to participate in the &
march. The numbers grew as the * 1 W
day progressed. ^
Criminal justice senior I.eroy
Gadsden said another group of [ y
35 USC students met behind
Thomson Student Health Center ilMgi
to travel to Atlanta.
Gadsden, president of USC's
NAACP, said they waited two
and a half hours at Atlanta's
King Center for buses. At 11:30 j
a.m., it was announced there ?
were no more buses lett in Atlanta
to charter; so about 2,00() had jjjit- * "fi
to travel in cars, he said. cVVi
At 11:30, the two buses from W8 '1LJS&&M
Labson Presbyterian Church
were also waiting to begin the trip fr+
to Cumming.
"We are getting behind
because we arc dealing with a lot
of neonle." said Alexander Grav.
the coordinator for Carolina's ,*# '
Peace Resource Center.
During the wait, Gray in- ^'>^(1
strutted marchers on what they
were to do once they arrived in I
"This is serious, and there may
be sonic cursing and all this good
stuff, but we will not respond to
that. That is not why we came
down here," he said. "We did About 100 UJ
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State and Tennessee Friday ana baturaay. uoin um, xeams
s make getting I
the burden of support on taxpayers.
Under the new law, which goes into effect this
semester, the eligibility formula for financial aid
changes. Students must file a Family Financial
; Statement to be considered for a Guaranteed Student
Loan.
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Freshmen and sophomores may now borrow
? $2,625 a year while juniors and seniors may borrow
c $4,000. The maximum amount for students
regardless of class year was about $2,500.
r The total amount of money available to
undergraduates rose from $12,500 to $17,250, Bans
nister said. The total amount a graduate student
g may borrow has increased to $50,675.
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Board rel
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By RONI BEA KAYNE p
Editor in chief ri
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Friday to release about 8,000 fi
vouchers and spending records in d
President James Holderman's v<
discretionary fund. s;
At a telephone conference with
members trapped home by V
upstate snow, the board passed a o
resolution to disclose how
Holderman spent about S3.5 p
million in USC funds hecontroll- u
ed during his nine years as d
president. n
The resolution states, however, tl
that some names and dates of u
purchases may be deleted to protect
donors' privacy. The state n
Freedom of Information Act pro- ti
tects such secrecy if it serves the v
public's best interest. d
Friday's action reversed the o
board's Nov. 21 decision to
withhold information on Holder- I
man's spending that might iden- n
tify people who had donated d
money to USC and inhibit future d
contributors. t
Following the meeting,
Holderman said the decision was n
not in response to mounting
oans more i
By EDWARD BOHAN
News reporter (
Education and student aid i
| programs arc facing large I
budget cuts or elimination in <
the Reagan administration's
proposed budget. i
The administration has sug- <
| gested cuts that would drop <
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federal financial aid programs
next year.
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up plays fo
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ressure from state legislators to
:lease the information.
"It was done as an act of good
lith to demonstrate that the
iscrctionary accounts are very,
L*ry, very clean," Holderman
lid.
But board Chairman Othniel
v'icnges said legislators' requests
ontributed to the decision.
"Interpretations of the aplications
of the rules as we
nderstood them have changed
ramatically over the past several
lonths," Wienges said, stressing
hat previous decisions were legal
ndcr the FOI Act.
"Both the board and the adlinistration
have multiple constiLiencics
and expectations with
/hich to deal. Sometimes these
liffer and even conflict. This is
me of those times."
Wienges said the board's
inance committee and USC ad
ninistrators would review the
liscretionary fund vouchers and
lecide which names should not
>e released.
Information of how much
noney was spent and on what
See "Spending," page 2
difficult
In its 1988 budget proposal to
Congress, the administration
isked for a $2.3 billion cut in
education Department
ixpcnditures.
Among the programs the administration
is asking to be
eliminated are Fell Grants and
College Work Study.
"Students are the principal
beneficiaries of their investment
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