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Bates I Housing By Betty Wooduff University students planning to live in the new Bates West dormitory have been given several alternative housing prospects since the dorm will not be completed until December 1. "We had planned to move into the dorm gradually," Robert A. Stewart, director of housing, said. "But instead of completing each floor as they went, the builders went helter-skelter all over the building. On July 10, they told us no one could move in until December 1, so we dropped everything to come up with suitable housing options." Stewart said the easiest thing to do would have been to cancel everyone's reservation and refund Weh AVA] 3 CONVEN DJutch S uai W ~ ..* e-i NVest Incoi 1 Options the money. Eventually, this was one of the options offered. "But that didn't solve the problem of where the student would live," he said. "After some Investigation, we got a lead on Sandwood Lake Apartments on Decker Boulevard about seven miles from campus and we worked out some plans with them." The apartments became a second, and the most popular, option for students. With two full baths, air-conditioning, dishwasher, carpeting, and swimming pools available, Stewart described the two-bedroom apartments as "plush." Although aDartments at the complex normally rent for a higher amount, students will live there at ~ome 5tudents Presents The New Full Dress Look. ARGEST IN THE SOUTHEAST' FORMA ,. WEA R Rental & Sales LABLE AT 1EN'1 LOCATIONS, i'e Points eForest Drive nplete; Offered no extra charge from the original Bates West housing fee. Stewart said the University is paying the remainder of the amount. "Furniture for Bates West will be used to furnish the apartments," he said. "The only problem is the distance from campus. But most of the students living out there will have cars and we are working on a bus service between there and campus." Students who sign up for bus service will be charged an additional $30. Another off-campus housing location for the men who signed up for 4ates West will be the former nurses' residence at Columbia 'Hospital about three-quarters of a mile from campus. For the students who do not wish to stay off-campus, Stewart said the Housing Department had been "pretty lucky to come up with some alternatives." ''Since several Horseshoe tenements were scheduled for renovation next semester, we postponed that and moved some men into those rooms. Then there were some rooms on McBryde quadrangle scheduled to be torn down, and some students can stay in there. "Women staying on-campus have been given options of South Tower or South Building studies, or temporary three-girl rooms in the Wbmen's Quad," he said. On-campus rooms have been the second most popular option. "This dorm not being ready has been a tough situation all the way around," Stewart said, "but I think the University has bent over backwards trying to find suitable .options for as many students as possible." F4 1116%2 Taylor (Across from Lourie's Do wntown) Call or slop in for informalit D9RoM NIL 1 V 1ROOM NIOZLM Floor plan and location for one option given students who SG Book| "The main questioni is; will stu dents be willing to wait a week for their refund rather than receive it immediately," said Charles Young, manager of the Student Book Ex change. Young said that the refund on the book at the exchange would be greater than that received at either the Campus Shop or the South Car olina Bookstore, but that it might be a week or more before the stu dent receives his refund. Young said that he thinks the E xchange's biggest appeal to the students is its low profit margin, which allows the organization to offer better prices. "We operate at less than one-third of the margin than the campus bookstores do. Because of this, we can give the student seller a higher price and the buyer a lower one." The difference in this and other attempted book exchanges is that the book s are sold on consignment, Young said. Students who wish to sell books bring them in and fill out an ownership form. If the book 00 0.0 offer 10% discount to alt USC studen ing thec month of September. n on our classes in decoupage, Tote p SG......o.... 137romS es sI AS S 'andwood Lake Apartments, planned to live in Bates West, Exchange, is sold, the owner can come in and pick up his money. Young said that while the books were being held by the exchange, there would be insurance against loss by natural disaster and bur glary. Young said that the books ac cepted through the book exchange would primarily , be hard-bound textbooks, and that no parallel 0 book or outside reading books would be accepted. He said that the books the exchange was aiming. for were 100,200, and 300 level cour ses, but that all hardbound text books would be accepted for sale. Young said that the exchange would operate on a schedule allow ing the return of books so that stu dents whose books were not sold could take them either to the Cam pus Shop or the South Carolina Bookstore for refunds. The book exchange will operate out of Room 323 of the Russell House 0 253-8847 zinting, and other crafts.