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By BETH HILL
Editorial Page Editor
The Carolina Research and
Development Foundation
(CR&DF), a non-profit land
buying and selling corporation
affiliated with USG, doesn't
have to get prior approval
from the USC Board of
Trustees for each piece of
property it buys. The foundation
doesn't always have a
definite purpose for the
property. This practice is
foolish and wasteful, for it
results in the purchase of
property that isn't used.
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move by CR&DF occurred in
1965 when the foundation
bought property in the Wheeler
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The Gamecock:
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Hill area. The foundation
bought the land for the
fraternities, which couldn't
afford to build houses in the
area. One of the members of
CR&DF said the foundation
"assumed" the fraternities
would be interested in the area.
Was CR&DF so uninformed
that they bought the property
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fraternities? (Maybe they
wanted it to be a surprise.)
Or has the foundation been
completely honest with us?
Perhaps CR&DF was just
engaging in land speculation,
taking a business risk in hopes
of obtaining sizable monetary
gains. The value of the Wheeler
Hill land that the foundation
bought and has not put to use
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has certainly gone up since
CR&DF purchased it.
People were forced out of
their homes when the foundation
bought Wheeler Hill.
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decided it won't need the land,
these people were moved
unnecessarily. If the foundation
had carefully thought
out its decisipn to buy the land,
these people wouldn't have had
to leave their neighborhoods.
Now it appears that they
moved for no reason.
Another example of
questionable judgment by the
foundation was the purchase of
the Senate Plaza in 1979. A
board member said the
building was bought because it
was offered to iinivorci>?i of
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a good price, but no plans have
been made to utilize the area.
This sounds like another case
of speculation by CR&DF.
Anyway, it's obviously an
example of poor long-range
planning. Since its creation in
1965, the foundation has done
more than $8 million worth of
business. $8 million! This is a
substantial amnunt nf mnnmi
to be investing in land, much of
which isn't being put to use.
T. Eston Marchant told' The
Gamecock (April 18) that the
university doesn't need to
expand anymore, so the board
of trustees issued a "cease and
desist" order to the foundation
in March. At least CR&DF can
no longer buy land for USC-this
will stop the speculation
for a while. Marchant said the
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uuaru wouia reevaluate the
foilndation before deciding
whether to permanently stop it
from buying property for the
university.
CR&DF has served a viable
purpose in the past-buying
land for the university incognito
because overt interest
by the university could have
raised the price of the land. But
the objective of CR&DF no
longer exists if, in the words of
Marchant, "the university
doesn't need to expand
anymore." So the board of
trustees will have a difficult
time explaining why CR&DF
should continue to be a land
speculator if it decides to
remove the "cease and desist"
order in the future.
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it. I plan to compete with men
jobs, not cook their meals and
lothes. If succeeding in the
instead of becoming a mother
my femininity, then it wasn't
n ine tirst place.
, I should like to address all of
who seem to know what's best
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"masculinity."
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