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GAMECOCK Monday, Dec. 1,1977 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIY, No. 23 c fomnnnv e%\ r*? f ' By LYN ISBELL Gamecock Staff Writer USC officials have given the okay for a private company called Tuition Plan to offer people the chance to pay educational expenses through monthly installments beginning next fall. Tuition Plan will contact students next spring and summer, offering several plans which will permit people to pay on a monthly basis instead of in one large sum. These r Lott art | J. E. Moss, a DuPont Co. met p I demonstrated the art of blacksmi Ffers tuition payments are made in installments to the company; the company advances payment due to the school. The plan, which operates out of Concord, New Hampshire, offers these monthlv payment programs so families may keep savings and investment plans intact. An optional life insurance policy is also offered through Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. ACCORDING TO Dr. Martin McGirt, director of student financial aid, Tuition Brltton Andn tallurgist, workshop Tuesday night. See thing at a on page II. installment Plan is a well-established company that has been operating in this field for a number of years. It is available at most state universities in the Southeast. The payment plans will cover all approved school expenses, including tuition, room and board. The four-year program can be paid in 60 or 72 monthly installments. There are also plans available for one, two, or three years of college. According to the particular plan chosen, a person has one to six years after graduation to pay the in Inaugur H ess for cc By CUIUS DOYLE Gamecock Staff Writer The first inaugural cere | about the same as a comi to Dr. George Curry, chaii of the Board of Trustees The funds were set as contingency fund, said C ! The costs of the cer ministrative costs, print delegates invited to the c that is open to the public assistant. TI1K PUBLIC CEKEM walk through to meet the possible," he said. The 1 thing to do in the acade The total cost for the in received after the cerer money," he said. "Frankly, in a lot of cii nnoon col/I I ui;ii uuu ^cnu i inauguration. The inaug ! of service to the state,' T1IK 24-MKMBKR ina and ceremony includes s Columbia campus and < The printing costs are on the printing of the ir Coaches 'untenal By EI>ITII McNEILL Gamecock News Editor The relationshiu betw< USC football coach and ? situation" and that is w director of Regional Can according to several Ui: Holderman spoke to a other staff members at a The professors said tl when Holderman woul< questioned Holderman a ? 1 I 1 I MUH about it," said one profe* five minutes." However, some high le USC Board of Trustees hi Marchant, USC Board c heard about the iob offer ,w~, n* board meeting.' McGUiKK ANI) IIOLI tember luncheon where oaicu BwrJ Ness was present, Hold The Charlotte Observ J plan for fall ctallmpnts Mnnfhlv iwvmpnfs hnoin (nf> month before the first school fee is due. TUITION PLAN is designed primarily for middle income families, said McGirt. Independent students with a guaranteed income, such as a spouse working, would also be eligible for the plan. Tht plans are not designed for students applying for the major forms of financial aid. "It works more or less like a traditional loan," said McGirt. "You have to have some kind of collateral." al costs same immencement mony for a USC president in 40 years will cost nencement ceremony for students, according rman 01 tne inaugural coinmmee ana member ide last year by the Hoard of Trustiees in a hip Gray of Information Services. emony involve renting the Coliseum, ading costs, a breakfast for the 100 or more ceremony and a reception after the reception , said Keith Detrude, President Holderman's ONY won't be lavish, Curry said. People will honored guests. "It will be done as cheaply as ireakfast for the delegates "is the mistnmnrv 0 ? J mic world." lauguration will not be known until all bills are nony, said Detrude. "We'll try to conserve rcles presidential inaugurations are considered o explain the 40-year absence of a USC uration is a "reaffirmation of traditional goals ' he said. ugural committee which planned the activities ;everal students and faculty members from the ither regional campuses. the bic exDenses. said Currv. Bids were taken ivitations. relationship ble situation1 ?en USC basketball Coach Frank McGuire and ithletic director Jim Carlen was an "untenable hy McGuire received the job offer as athletic npuses, said USC President James Holderman >C professors. group of 28 USC University 101 professors and breakfast on Friday, Nov. 18. le breakfast had not been intended as a time 3 talk about the issue, but one professor ihnnt thn incident ivKI) the hell out of me when he began talking >sor. "He must have stayed on the subject for vel sources on campus said they suspected the ad a hand in making the decision. But T. Eston >f Trustees chairman said the first the board was when Holderman informed them of it in a nr.nivmn shook nanus on me aeai ai a upstate Supreme Court Justice Julius "Bubba" erman told the group. er and Dan Foster, Greenville News sports See HOI.DERM AN, page 2 .