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Exposed beams left by fallen ce Maxcy l BY AARON MEDLOCK Gamecock Staff Writer Almost half of a heavil plastered ceiling in a Maxcy Dor mitory room crashed to the floo Tuesday afternoon around 4:3 p.m. The residents of room 304 wer out. A possibly fatal accident coul( have occurred because of hazar dous living conditions in the dor mitory a Maxcy hall advisor said Greg Jackson, who is a seconc floor hall advisor and whose roon is located almost directly beneati the destroyed room said, "Housinj has really been slack in doing evei simple things like replacing flourescent light bulbs. "I was lying in my bed when ] heard a tremendous crash. Something else hit and I ran up stairs. The room was devastated,' Jackson said. "Huge pieces of plaster has fallen and were lying all over the room. The air was thick with dust. "Fortunately, the occupants o the room were not there. I'd hate to think what might have happenet if they had been. The pieces o fallen plaster were almost pure concrete. They were three inches thick and some were at least threi feet by one and one-half foot wide,' Jackson said. The night before the accident the residents had reported sagging ceiling to their hall ad The Gamecock i published twie sday during the fail and spring sei summer. with the exception of a Change of address forms, subt should be sent to The Gamecock 29206. Subscription rate is $3 per The Gamecock received $36.m0 1V13-74. Offices of the Gamecoci Russell House oni the university c are 777-8178 and 777-424, ews, class, aase= .ud Com bi..sa. Russell Jeffcoat Iling in room 304, Maxcy dormitory. Froubled. visor, Jackson said. The hall advisor could not report the room condition until the next morning because the housing office had - closed for the day. r The fallen debris in room 304 caused the ceiling to sag in room 204 which is directly beneath it. a "Housing evacuated the residents in room 204 after the third floor i ceiling fell in," Jackson said. Then - all the hall advisors were told to go - around and report any other hazardous conditions. None were I found, Jackson said. "It seems the only time housing is interested in the condition of the dormitory is when someone violates a rule or something happens'," Jackson said. "People here have repeatedly complained about the almost impos3ibility of getting housing to make repairs. Just the other day a resident was caught with a refrigerator that was too large for requirements in his room. Housing caught that violation but in the same room Were broken window panes that needed repayring and had frequently been reported as broken and hazardous." Jackson said for the past few semesters, Maxcy has been deluged with problems. In the fall of 1972 a pipe burst and flooded parts of the dorm. Three thousand dollars worth of damage was done. Last spring a fire ruined a room. This fall a resident was walking in the loft when he fell through the ceiling. XDOCK e weekly on Monday and on Thur, mesters and once a week during the Iversity bolidays and examn periods. ecripticn requests and other mail ,Dra\Wer A, USC, Columbia, S.C., semester and $2 for the summer. from the student activity fund for are rooms 317, 318 and 319 in the ampus, 1400 Green St. Telephones kud 'p7-388W, advertising. Secod Artist Sky or atmospheric sculpture, an experimental art form, has been researched for more than five years by Howard Woody, USC Art Department professor. Woody, one of the few artists in the United States. to explore the relationship between art forms and atmospheric qualities, has presented more than 30 of these events at museums and colleges in Canada, New York, Michigan, Idaho, Louisiana and Kansas. Documentation of his past sky sculptures has been requested by the Museum of Modern Art and Solomon Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Galleria Nazionale d'Art Con temporanea in Rome and JR WOR \ DOWNTOW Reseache Netherlands' Stedelijk Van Ab bemuseum. This past summer and fall, Woody has released a half dozen atmospheric sculptures in the Columbia area working with grants from the South Carolina Arts Commission and from the USC Research and Productive Scholarship Committee. He has also used the arena of the 12,000 seat Carolina Coliseum to demonstrate indoor sky sculpture techniques for graduate and un dergraduate art classes and has released sculptures at the Toronto Royal Ontario Museum. Atmospheric sculptures use mylar, polyethylene film and, on occasion, balloons. They are LD SPORTI Baby Y Embroi Cordu BRONSON butter soft and colorft the shirts j back! 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