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9 WEATHER i FRIDAY \ SATURDAY TIPS update to improve registration Signing up should be quicker and easier ^ JENlMllUt STANLEY News Editor Students should notice a change this semester that will make TIPS access and class registration a little easier, according to University Registrar Richard Bayer. The university is using part of the technology fee to increase the number of TIPS telephone lines from 76 to 108 lines. r> _ j J i i 11 uayer saia scuaenis snouia experience fewer busy signals during the sign-up process. ^ Students also will be asked to oomplete a student health insurance survey the first time they call TIPS to preregister. The survey will question students about their insurance and more information about health insurance. The survey should take about 45 to 60 seconds. "The university is interested in knowing that students have adequate _ health insurance," Bayer said. ' Other changes to TIPS include a new process for May Session and Summer Session sign-ups. Students no longer need to obtain their dean's permission to take three hours in May session and six hours in Summer I. TIPS now includes a separate menu for May Session so students can pay for Mav OAOflinn nnH fiiimmpr T aonnrntolu ^ Bayer said students can access their class schedule, and grades, change their address and search for open and closed class sections on ARGO, the university's registration web site. The web site address is http://argo.regs.sc.edu. The security of student information on the web has been enhanced, Bayer said. ^ Bayer highlighted several classes that will be offered during May Session. Some of the courses offered include FILM 566M, "Science Fiction Films;" THSP 330M, "Rhetoric Study-Star Trek;" HIST 599M, "Topic/Hispanic Communities-American Southeast;" and ENGL 566M, "Topic/Hollywood films of the '30s and '40s." Conservative V Students refuse to fund fo! sul clubs they oppose ^ opi REGINNA GREEN Asst. News Editor is ii ^ Tkfl oll/VHifiAn /YP ofii/lnnf line cuiuvawuii wi oiuutut acuivity iCC3 is one of the largest and most daunting sjm tasks faced by student governments at colleges and universities across the nation. an< A recent ruling by a Wisconsin federal Rej judge may have made that process even the more difficult by finding that the ofs University ofWisccnsin-Madison violated on the the First Amendment rights of three viol students when it required them to pay activity fees supporting campus La\ organizations which offended their ideas Bar ^ and beliefs. Sou ynited States District Judge John as c C. Shabaz ruled last November that by thei disallowing the students to opt out of $33 providing activities fees, the university org was denying the students their rights opp not to speak and not to associate. "The University must provide some pay sort of opt-out provision or refund system Sou Outstanding FRESl Freshman Advocate Award goes out to the student, faculty or staff member who helps freshmen in their academic, professional and persona lives. Anyone can be nominated for th< award, and anyone can nominate that s\ t ^ has helped freshmen get the credit they More in ETC. % ? GAMECOCK ONLINE Visit the Gi tk K ,, 5 .^gay^ JiLy - iwwp ^ f * v Wm H , - *$~1|R . WW -,/ a , : -* S" In" Rs|^B^RMP ^^B^MMHjj^. /" ' The university's 42nd annual faculty and st Room of Capstone House. A preview party Proceeds from the event will be divided I Credit cards will be accepted. Wisconsin student these students who object to jsidizing political and ideological dents organizations with which they 1 agree," Judge Shabaz wrote in his how 701 oion. The UW-Madison Board of Regents l the process of appealing the decision. The UW-Madison lawsuit Mows a tilar suit filed in 1995. In the ruling of Rosenberger v. Rector 1 University of Virginia Board of *ents, the Supreme Court held that university could not bar the allocation tudent fees to a religious organization the basis that doing so would be a ation of free speech rights. The three UW-Madison School of v students who filed the suit, Keith mach, Amy Schoepke and Scott Harold thworth, who referred to themselves onservative Christians, objected to should be abl ir activities fees, which amounted to The trio c 1.50 per student, being used to support student actr anizations whose missions they organization osed. International liberal atheists should not have to (a gay and les! for organizations they oppose either," and the Milit thworth said after the ruling. Teople University of "IRST pecial someone who j^\ ? ^ K * amecock's Home on the World Wide Web (5am Serving USC since 1908 *$:*?- , ?& Ji' teiMmyM J*%ffS-j ^4.Jm&qP>J* * WpM&K^ i ^p* jg^mgfB ^v^'f???r ><# ?! ?JS'^ l&ilL *? * '* '' '. I r^BhsP^L; ^ 4 - f * -8B8I ^w38m? ^ bHk^Bb ?BIWfiPt? 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"Many students have beer ipposed the allocation of to the way the student associat vities fees to 18 campus money and what it does ns, including Amnesty Southworth, a third-year lav , the Ten Percent Society said, bian student oiganization) Junior finance major Kimbe ant Student Union of the chairwoman of USC SG Senat Wisconsin. committee, which recently con USC track star W Jk Iff A Ti & Jamaica JAJtIAJII -jfcU native S SENSAT burning up n mi mm track ^ast times an<^ the kJ classroom with good grades. Nathan Brown caught up with the Sensation" to see what Watts is like ol ^ Check out the story in SPORTS. ) http://www.gamecock.3c.edu track il Technology research, st ROSALEVD HARVEY Staff Writer !Late nights in computer labs with no printer access, a busy signal an TIPS and a limited e-mail system may prompt students to wonder where and how their technology fees are being allocated. Despite what students might think, the technology fees do not go to just computer updates, repairs and replacements. According to Patrick Calhoun, network librarian and university officer of information systems, the fees fund the Computer Service departments research into keeping up with the Universities' technology demands. Calhoun said ? Computer Services , , ? is always researching hope to buili & new ideas and new a technologies. The T"^J^8t"1 research enables stu< them to have the I technological knowledge when George Ba needed. Director, Informati "We want to be Computer ! able to support the ^ | computer needs for / 4 students whether it be Web access or for services," Calhoun i George Ballington, director of ] Information Systems and Computer Services, said the fees not only go to < research but also to student technology I services like the Internet, library research ] and TIPS access. Richard Bayer, university registrar, i said Computer Services added 32 more i TIPS lines with funds allocated from the i technology fees. The 32 additional lines bring , a total I to 108 HPS lines for students to register, i p According to Ballington, the mission for Computer Services is to help students, t "We hope to build and provide a strong s info-structure with resources for USC f students," Ballington said. s Calhoun said the four focus areas that Computer Service uses these funds c are for student access to the Web, \ imecock ^ J?t- ? : 1 1. ciuicuitciiicut vjl oiAiucait aci viues, xjei/WUiii support and hardware replacements for c mpus computer labs. ? P-m- Ballingtan said the student technology ( ^U1('' fees are calculated by the amount of $ hours each student takes. The fee is $3 an hour up to a t ition to campus or allocation of $1.25 million ofUSC student activity fees to campus organizations, s Student Government and Student Media, r fees.] agrees that there may be objections to a how money is spent, but there is no way s to completely control the direction of r funds. f "As far as I feel about it, you cannot h control how your money is spent [when \ students pay activity fees]," Baxter said. "In fiflfeft whffll vmi OTVP t)v? af+mnl m/nnov a there is no way to dictate where your g money will go or how it will be spent." t Baxter said she believes the ruling it will particularly affect large universities where the responsibility of allocating ft student activity fees is placed on members tl of student government. "I think [Judge Shabaz's] ruling will d open up doors to many other questions o i objecting regarding fee allocations," Baxter said, c ion spends "It will be interesting to see how other t! with it," schools such as ours?where students ^student, allocate funds as opposed to ii administrations?handle the situation." p rty Baxter, UW-Madison Associate Dean of e Finance Students Roger Howard agrees with e lpleted its Baxter. CAN How many people in the IOIV haven't quit smc AGE 7 ANSWER: 49 mfflioi ! "Jamaican f the track. Source: Harper's Index Jn .^r INDEX Events 2 Viewpoints 3 Etc. 4 Comics 6 Sports 7 Classified 10 O O 1 tees tund udent labs maximum of $35. The estimated total of fees to be collected from the student technology fees in 1997 is around $1.9 million, Ballington said. From this budget computer services allocated $100,000 for TIPS updating, $158,000 for student e-mail accounts, $450,000 for the dorm access computer project, $166,000 for Web access and library access, $500,000 for info-structure and $575,000 dispersed among the colleges for their computer labs. By 1998 all dorms will be equipped with computer hook-up because of the student technology fees, Ballington said. , Three p aorms are cuirentiy .. wired for this d and provide computer [jnk structure 8ystem rces for Rflllingt/m lento. said the goal for Computer Services is for students to be llington able to register for on Systems and classes on the Web. Services Current H resources for / students include the ability to check academic schedules, verily grades and locate USC buildings by using the Web page designed by computer services. The estimated $500,000 that is to be iispersed among the colleges is part of he funds supporting the computer labs, Ballington said. The colleges control that money. It is up to them to decide what to do with It and where exactly it goes," Ballington aid. "Most colleges have an additional audget for things like computer naintenance," he said. Franke Taylor, director of budget for he College of Business Administration, aid the $171,118 they received last year rom technology fees went to upgrade lystemS. "Not all of the money went to the omputer labs," Taylor said. "Some also vent to buy faculty computers." Dianna Huggins, administrative oordinator for the College of Journalism ind Mass Communication, said the College of Journalism received around >18,000 last year. Huggins said all of the money went o buy classroom equipment for the ooflega ganizations "We believe that the Wisconsin state tatutes that provide students with the ight to govern how fees are collected nd distributed are very clear," Howard aid. "We hope that the appellate courts ecognize the right to allocate student 3es that the Wisconsin State Legislature tas given students at the University of Wisconsin." Many, like Baxter and Howard, uggest that the ruling threatens student ovemment and undermines their ability 0 conduct their jobs, which many times Deludes allocating and distributing funds. Mary Rouse, dean of students at UWladison believes that students will feel he ruling's effect in another way. "The practical impact will be to ecrease the number of student rganizations here," Rouse said. "Many an survive only if they can get money hrough fees." The UW-Madison Board of Regents 1 currently involved in the appellate rocess. They are expecting a decision at the nd of this summer. )king FOR . FUN ? i