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Women I
Handymt
Students who call to complain
about a jammed lock or broken
thermostat in their dormitory
rooms are being surprised
when a woman reports to do the
repair work.
The University Housing Ser
vices has hired two women,
Margaret Crumblin and
Eleanor Hoffman, to do work
ranging from changing air con
ditioning filters to unstopping
clogged drains in women's resi
dence halls.
"Before we hired these
women," George J. Mitchell of
the housing office explained, "a
repair man had to be accom
panied by a woman when he
worked in a woman's dormit
ory.
"Now having the women to do
repair work," he said, "saves on
personnel and also allows a
quicker response to problems
since the women are stationed
in the residence hall."
Neither. Hoffman nor Crum
blin has worked as a mechanic
or in maintenance before, but
both say they have always been
interested in trying to fix things
around their homes such as
broken iron cords or electric
mixers.
"I feel that it's good for a
woman to be able to fix things
since it costs so much money to
call someone in from outside,"
Mrs. Crumblin said. "And
things don't always break down
If I find in myself
a desire which no exper
in this world can satisfy
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when your husband is at home."
Hoffman remembers that one
of her first repair jobs as a child
involved a clock that would no
longer run. She took the clock
apart and when she put it back
together it started running
-even though she had left out
several parts!
Crumblin, who describes her
self as the type who can never
sit still, recalls that when she
first started working at USC in
December one student asked
her "Who are you working for,
Women's Lib?"
However, Crumblin reports
that it didn't take students long
to get used to seeing her tinker
ing with light fixtures or water
fountain knobs and says that
now many girls ask her to
explain how she is doing the
repair job.
Hoffman, stationed in Cap
stone House and Columbia Hall,
calls herself an independent
person but says she really
hasn't thought about Women's
Lib.
Both Crumblin and Hoffman
say they walk miles each day
between dorms and up and
down stairs, and they estimate
they each change 20 light bulbs
a day. "I even change them in
my sleep," Mrs. Hoffman joked.
But both women say they
enjoy the exercise of their new
jobs as well as meeting new
people and meeting different
things that need to be repaired.
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The fire that destroyed one of
eleven cabins at USC's Bell
Camp on Sunday March 11 was
labeled "arson" by Willie
Stevenson of the Richland
County Sheriff's departihent
last week.
However the investigation to
determine who was to blame for
the blaze which Phil Lownes,
director of the camp, said
caused an estimated $700 dam
age has all but come to a halt.
The fire was set at the same
time a party was being held at
the camp for the USC basketball
team after its victory over
Texas Tech in the Midwestern
Regionals in Houston. An
estimated 300 hundred persons
showed up at the party which
Lownes said had been prepared
for 50.
Lownes said the fire that
destroyed the cabin was the sec
ond set that night. The first was
discovered around 7 p.m. by
Lowne's who noticed a burning
roll of toilet paper under the
cabin. Lownes said he put out
the fire with wet dirt and went
down to the lodge where the
party was being held to ask the
sponsors of the party to find out
who had set the blaze "and get
them out of there."'
Lownes said he then returned
to his cabin on the grounds and
watched T. V. until his 10 p.m.
rounds. At that time Lownes
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party Lownes called the Rich
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showed, according to Steven
son, that the fire had been set
intentionally and originated
under a window at the rear of
the cabin.
Lownes said the investigation
has been turned over to the uni
versity police, but Lawrence
Beauford of the Safety Division
of the campus police said his
department will not start an
investigation until he receives
a report from the Richland
County Arson Division.
Lownes said he intended to
file an insurance claim to
recover the damages to the
cabin. He said that in the future
what might come out of the inci
dent is that the sponsors of
events, during which damage is
incurred to the camp, would be
held liable for those damages.
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camp to inspect the damage last
week said he saw "no natural
cause in the area of the ignition"
which might have started the
blaze. However he said that he
had no plans to contact the spon
sors of the party to find out if
they knew anything about who
was responsible for the fire.
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