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* c "" i ? i ., m.,, ! ? ? ^1,,^ ^ ' M ""W"" South Carolinian^Library ^ ^ H I v"x/% 1 Vi i T BULK RATE I , U.SV POSTAGE ' Monday, April 17,1978 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIY No. 41 Columbia.s c. I 1 PERMIT MO. aijj < T1N??????Mil? IM'IMMMIIMIIMW II III II I I III! I | - | | ,,, Dm, rWIUMIIIIIHIIII TH ^ U SC stu< By DIANNE POSTON Gamecock Staff Writer I^ast Fridav a croun of hnrri working, fun-loving General Studies students joined forces and came to the fescue of Dora Grey. Dora is a 78-year-old woman who lives alone in a two-room house. Cayce officials were in the process of evicting Dora when the Midlands Human Resources rnmmifisinn rw ri?o?loo uUV??l|VV * VIIQ1 l^O Osborne I professor of the College of General Studies' sociology department of her plight. OSBORNE WAS looking for a subject for his annual sociology pr :SBH^BpSE^^^BBXL^ Med schooi By JANE SHEALY News Editor Scattered among four locations, miles apart, the USC School of Medicine is preparing to renovate the V. A. Hospital as its main campus. Presently the school's pathology department is located in Booker T. Washington, bi?p|jemistry is in the On the Gubernatorial candi Holderman commei award U SC track beats Bap Greek Week highllg editorial: (JSC's uns >?i dents pit project and national College Pitchin Week. "Poverty is a section I teach in my sociology class," Osborne said. "By having an annual project it is dealt with on a first hand experience basis." "Dora has no running water, no bathroom facilities, and snh. standard electricity. We're going to change all that." "IT AIN'T nothing I ain't been asking for, I just didn't know how it was coming," Dora said. "It's an answer to prayers." The crew of students along with the help of the Midlands Human Resource Commission's iv"V: - / : 4 -v-: " 7/ . . Lynn Shook-THE GAMECOCK I to renovah physical sciences building and microbiology is in Coker Life Sciences building. Family practice is located at Richland Memorial Hospital. Psychiatry and neurology are taught at the William S. Hall Institute. A. $40 million replacement ? a * nuo|iiu>i, iiuw unucr construction at the site of ,the present V. A. hospital, will house V. A. patients inside 1 dates give platforms page 31 ids Greeks at s banquet ... page 6 tlst page 14 ? hts page 18 1 i Tin if horAAA $ - ~ aav? WICV | page 32 ) ch in, he weutnerization crew has undertaken the rebuilding of Dora's home. The crews installed new windows, new doors, a new front porch, cement steps, carpeting, a white picket fence, underpinning for the house, and weatherized paneling for the outside. They painted the house both inside and out, shored up the house to prevent sagging, and removed hazardous junk from around the house. Dora's woodburning stove was also fixed. THE CITY OF Cayce will begin putting in water and bathroom facilities and fixing her electricity this week, according to Osborne. "Dora, who has lived here for 32 years, is a very giving person," Osborne said, "She never expected anything in return. Now i? being paid back. "Four major organizations are involved in this project, the College of General Studies, Budweiser distributor of Columbia, Midlands Human Resource Commission and the city of Cayce." STUDENTS CONTRIBUTED $125, the Midlands Resource Commission gave $400, and the difference was given in donations and by Budweiser of Columbia. The total cost of the project is j approximately $2,000. I "We're about 70 per cent through," Osborne said. "We'll j pick again sometime the first of j next week and finish." See STUDENTS, page 9 e V.A. Hosj upon its completion, planned for February 1979. THE PROJECT, funded by the . Veterans Administration, includes I a 412-bed facility and a new medical library made accessible to hospital personnel as well as medical students by an enclosed 1 breezeway between the two buildings. The new library will have a drive-in feature. According to chief medical librarian Tom Lange Jr., "You can phone ahead and pick up a book without getting out of your car." The idea provides convenience in inclement weather and is easily accessible to handicanned students. The medical library is now housed on the third floor of Petigru where the old law library was i located. It has a shelf capacity of 40,000 volumes including ap- ; proximately 1,000 journals. "THE NEW library will have a 75,000 volume capacity on the first ' two floors," Lange said. He added i Lp Cayce woman i f ?i T|y ^ .,<* *> >v \. ;< ^ ' v . ' Bfe^JS ^ ' ^ ?n ' ,, '"" ilL-A ^T ;; .-*?w? . - ' y^r4<-{'^J^'^W^' -^ '^V "'; ^ |' ;* .;,^>k J' ' _ ^ y~ y ^ ' :" >-->>:-"--'s'"' $* Lynn Shook-THE GAMECOCK oitaL build librarv - J the library will eventually expand expires in 1981. The total grant was into the rest of the four-story for 25 million, which included building. ^ faculty salaries, equipment, Before accreditation, one of the supplies and renovation of the V. A. delays faced by the school was a Hospital buildings for the medical time-consuming recruitment of school's classroom and laboratory faculty. As late as April 1977, the space. school did not haveji chairman of Another federal source of money surgery, ur. itaipn ue Faima, who was a $4*20,000 "start up" grant originally accepted the post, from the Department of Health, changed his mind. A local doctor, Education and Welfare. The grant George H. Bunch Jr., took the was appropriated for one-time position. expenditures such as development Funding was and still is a of ,ib ry facilities, equipment, problem for the medical school. reJJ?var.10" a. repair. Many of the state's legislators and *irst class, enrolled last fall the governor have said there is not a^er . nl\meJ0)if delays, was , w* UVUUV1IU3 I I Ulll VIIVU&II IIIUIICJ III IIIC dUIIC IU . , ^ . m? ? support two medical schools. South Carolina. They began The Medical University of South classes in the Coker and Physical Carolina in Charleston had to cut 25nce !??in*?s*4 A ? ? , back on its non-teaching staff last . The ?f students enrolled summer because of financial ,s ?.ontlrolled^ 3 difficulties. It has since hired accrediting committee, mnnv nf iKo Kont K?? based on facultv flnrf fn^.l.fioo ........ uatn UT Ollll IIIIK ,, , ?VM.WVO ?? budget funds. medical school. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL was THE MEfMCAL school now has established under a grant from the 169 full-time faculty members, Veterans Administration which See MED SCHOOL, page 6