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Vol. 94, No. 87 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA wwjv.dailygamecock.com Today’s Weather This Week; Isolated T storms on Wednesday. Sunny this weekend. Inside This Issue Spotlight reviews Disney's latest, “Atlantis’' see Page 6 This Day in USC History June 27,1990 USC adertises for a new president in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The new president would re place James Holderman, who resigned amid con troversy over his lavish spending habits. Next Week’s Poll What’s your least FAVORTTE RADIO STATION in Columbia? Cast your vote at www.dailygamecock.com. Results will appear next Wednesday. Quote of the Day “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” — Robert Orben IN FLAMES: Fire damages Blue Marlin restaurant HM_^-----_! Sean Raylord/The Gamecock Firefighters assess damages to the Blue Marlin. At 4:30 p.m. Sunday, 35 Columbia firefighters responded to a fire at the popular Vista restaurant. The fire caused extensive damage to the historic building's roof and also caused water damage to the building’s interior. Two firefighters were injured during the call. Tuition to jump by 10.4% by Cristy Infinger The Gamecock The USC board of trustees finalized plans Friday for a 10.4 percent raise in tuition for all students. The new tuition will increase in state tuition by $195 per semester, and out-of-state tuition by $504 per semester, beginning this fall. Faculty and staff will also feel the sting of the budget cuts; the approved plan includes 9 percent cuts in every department. With more than 36,500 students at USC’s eight campuses around the state, many students and tamihes will be affected by the difference and, with fall semester only a couple of months away, searching for the funds to cover their own financial needs. Because of state budget cuts, USC isn’t the only university facing cuts in programs and increases in tuition. Clemson University increased its in-state tuition by 41.8 percent and out-of-state tuition by 15.3 percent last Wednesday. With such a large increase, many USC students are thinking less negatively about USC’s tuition increases. At the Friday’s board of trustees meeting, Student Government President Corey Ford acknowledged thanked the board for approving a reasonable increase. “We do appreciate this budget,” Ford said at the meeting. “I definitely don’t think that the students are going to be happy with the tuition increase, but given the circumstances that we had in the budget, we were pretty lucky. The university had the option to raise the tuition as much as they wanted to,” Tuition seepages J-school names interim dean by Mackenzie Clements The Gamecock The College of Journalism and Mass Comnxmkaions has named a new dean — at least temporarily. I X I Henry Price, a Henry Price longtime professor at the college, will take over as interim dean on Aug. 16 after Ron Farrar, who’s served as interim dean for the past two years, retires. Price joined USC’s faculty in 1969. Since then, he has taught copy editing and public opinion and propaganda courses. He has also served as chairman of faculty senate, chairmen of the college’s print sequence and associate dean for academics and undergraduate studies. race s appointment is ior one year or until the college selects a peimanent dean. Since Dean Judy VanSlyke Turk left the position two years ago, the college has been conducting a national search for a replacement. But with budget cuts looming in the background, the search has been unsuccessful. “It came to be a necessity when the dean search didn’t work,” Price said. “Without a new dean ... they had to do another interim situation.” Though accepting the position of interim dean won’t allow him to serve on the faculty search Dean see page 2