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Gamecock Staff Writer
USC at Lancaster will adopt a j
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with reduced gasoline con- i
sumption being the primary goal,
according to Peter Barry, Lancaster
director of academic affairs.
"Most classes will be held
Monday through Thursday to
reduce the number of trips
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In addition to saving gasoline,
energy will also be conserved by
turning off classroom lights on
Fridays, Barry said.
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Monday through Thursday, and no
classes will be held on Friday, as
opposed to the traditional 50minute
classes three days a week
and 75-minute classes two days a
week. In order to reach a required
average of 150 minutes a week, the
semester will be extended three
riavs Staff and farultv will be
required to work on Fridays,
Barry said.
"Friday is not a day off for
teachers, but since few of them
commute, we're still saving
energy," Barry said.
Sixty-five percent of the 800
students at Lancaster commute
from surrounding areas including
Chesterfield and York counties, a
distance of about 28 miles, and
Kershaw County at a distance of 18
miles from the Lancaster campus.
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By Diane Spalding
Qcmecock Staff Wrtt?r
The 1980 publication of USC's
Garnet and Black yearbook is
currently in the planning stages,
and will include spring semester
events, Steve Hall, Garnet and
Black editor said.
Previous issues of the yearbook
have not covered spring events,
only those held before February.
The 1980 edition will also cover
graduation ceremonies, Hall said.
"It will contain more copy than
before, and pictures will contain
more action. We want to capture
the flavor of academic life," he
added.
The yearbook will include offcampus
students, not just those on
campus, according to Hall. "We
want it to be something that all
students can remember years
later," he said.
"Everything that has
chronological order will be in
chronological order," Hall said.
"There will be four main sections
; consisting of students, sports,
organizations and people. The
people section will list students,
administration and faculty by
departments," he said. They will
by listed by name, hometown and
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Previously, yearbooks have
gotten away from the student's
interests, according to Hall. "We
want to liven it up this year. The
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responded to a survey, conducted
by USC in Lancaster's No-Name
Communicator weekly
publication, voted 20 to 1 in favor of
the energy efficient schedule,
Barry said.
The four-day week is a result of
increasing complaints from
students about the cost of getting to
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CARPOOLING will be encouraged,
Barry said, and carpool
requests will be publicized in
posters and printed in the NoName
Communicator to match
students in the same vicinities, he
added.
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"Among the promotions will be a
dorm and apartment decorating
contest. Sponsors will award
prizes to the winners. Also, prizes
will be awarded to selected
students who have their picture
taken " Hull suiH
"The grand prize will be a
weekend at Myrtle Beach. Other
prizes will include steak dinners,
movie tickets, gift certificates and
two Bee Bees tickets," Hall said.
Pictures for this year's yearbook
will be taken until Sept. 7, he said.
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totally new concept. In fact, when
this school started 20 years ago, we
originally had a four-day week
because the teachers commuted
from Columbia which is about 65
miles away," Barry said.
The success of the schedule will
be measured at the end of the
semester or full year using
students and faculty's responses
for a survey, Barry added.
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By Paula Williamson
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The Thomson Student Health
Center has requested a $4 increase
in student health fees. The present
fee of $35.50 will be increased to
$39.50 this fall semester, according
to Dr. Isao Hirata, health center
director.
The reason for the increase is
"strictly a matter of
mathematics," Hirata said.
"Inflation has hit everywhere, and
the health center is no exception.
The center receives no allocation
from the state; therefore, all
overhead comes from student
fees," he said.
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the present quality of the health
center. It will merely keep it in
existence," Hirata said
"Due to the financial problems
the center has been facing over the
past years, more and more staff
members have had to leave,"
Hirata said. "Eighty-five percent
cf the overhead goes toward
employee payrolls, and it is hard to
maintain a full staff,"he added.
W.W. Carothers, business
manager for the center, said
without the increase the standards
from the previous year cannot be
maintained.
Currently, the $35.50 health fee
covers visits with physicians,
Hirata said. X-rays, laboratory
fees and medication is provided at
the center at an extra charge to the
students, and this will not change
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with the increase, according to
Hirata.
The Thomson Student Health
Center at USC is not the only
center requesting increases.
Clemson University has
requested an increase from $45 to
$55 a semester effective this fall.
according to Norma Langley, staff
assistant of the Clemson Health
Center. "This fee covers
laboratory work, x-rays,
medication (up to a 2-week
period), office visits and extended
stays in the hospital facilities,"
Langley said. "The Clemson
Health Center is supported by
student fees only," she added.
The University of North Carolina
at flhanpl Hill is pxnpotiru? an in
crease from $43.50 to $63.50 a
semester because of the expansion
of their health center, according to
UNC health officials. The UNC
health center is also supported
totally by student fees.
If the USC Board of Trustees
approves the health fee increase, it
will become effective this August,
with the $4 added to the current
tuition fees, according to USC
officials. The increased health
center fee will be included in the
$75 tuition increase effective this
spring semester.
"The last increase received by
the student health center was in
1974 when they began absorbing
their own utility fees," Carothers
said.
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