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Carolina Library Volume LXX, No. 1-4 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S C. Sept. 20, 1979 By James Hale Gamecock Staff Writar Residents of Woodland Terrace apartments met with university officials this week to seek help in stopping me rasn 01 Durgiaries in the area, according to Chief Marvin Harrelson of USC campus police. Woodland Terrace, off-campus u a I i n :j .n_ i uuusiug uperaieu uy msiuenuai Life Services, is located on South Beltline Blvd. and is under the jurisdiction of USC campus police. Since January 1979, 23 break-ins have occurred in the 175apartment complex, according to Harrelson. The most recent break-ins occurred last . Saturday when six apartments were DroKen into ana $23, two rings and a portable radio was taken. Robin Kesterson of apt. 7-G said many of the coins taken from his apartment were collectable and of unknown monetary value. THE MEETING between residents and university officials occurred Tuesday when nine residents met with Harrelson and Lt. Sanders, crime prevention officer of the USC campus police. During the meeting residents wanted to know what measures the campus police were taking, and what measures they could take to maintain security. Many of the residents expressed the fear they had been feeling since the break ins. One woman resident said this fear was also felt by the children in the neighborhood. Harrelson informed Residential Towers' dc By Karen Addy Gamecock Staff Writer The resignation of the president ai n mpmhpr whn c?iH thp Hi?f?rt*ani7Y*d "waste of time" are the latest in a s involving Towers Dorm Government Minnie Parker, the first black wo Towers Government, submitter resignation to the government whicl meeting Wednesday night. "There are too many personal cor this time which limits me in execu the fullest extent," Parker said in he 'Your problem is th> IlfW? ffOTC. Parker did not elaborate on th< flicts" she mentioned, but one Tov that her resignation resulted from evolved when she assumed the pres Parker is the second Towers presid year, the first being Tim Shadle. Presidential duties will be as 4 Mi.i. n??.. (iiraiucui, nivn rc?y, constitution. Towers resident, Mike Dean, vo that Peay, now holding the highest c position, was not elected by the 1 pointed. "They are filling positions for 1 appointments and holding election ones. They are keeping their 'elifc Dean said. Peay, another dorm government Towers constitution followed the f pointing the vice president. Howev< vacant position of vice president cr< resignation, the dorm council decide election to 1111 me vice presidential f After resolving the resignation i proceeded to discuss projects. The g into silence when Lee Wade, representative, blatantly criticized disorganization and inefficiency. "Your problem is that you're c really wasting my time here/' Wad< Apartmen discuss Life Services of areas in need of improvement, and he felt they would be responsive to the problems in the area. His suggestions included installing additional locks, additional outside lighting and other improvements. The campus police has increased efforts in patroling the area, in marked and unmarked cars, Harrelson said. He was investigating poss- . ; lble leads into the recent incident. lirl^TTYi * The solution to (n ; 4 K?*? the problem involves not only H :' ' campus security, I . but also housing and residents, according to Harrelson. Residents should inform the Ti campus police of ^ any suspicious BHglgBH'' people in the ;wf neighborhood, he said. LETTERS were , going to be distributed a mo- 2HH^V ng the residents to list the times their apartments are tSik _ " iin/mAiiniA/) uuvn.\.u(iicu ?-' ~"' New president gttitSu >rm conflici After making h room. Later he id an outburst by statements, meetings were a ;eries of conflicts "I have attende t. them were disorg man president of two presidents in j a letter of question ah out ho h was read at the The meetings are lflicts going on at Wade expresses tine mv duties to in Towers Govern sr letter. "The hall repr< at you're disorganized, i Moc i "personal con- in things, only mi zers resident felt I think the resid i pressure which almost all the issi iidential position. feel you're not ne ent to resign this Wade added the time attending SCI1VY1A/1 K\7 virno nn/i ruwtitvvi mj viw OU UtUVC WOO OCV to the Towers at the meeting?c were absent, as w iced a complaint Dean also comi lorm government understand they residents but ap- They are incomj said. Towers Goverr iigher offices by funds included in s for the smaller resident hall direi rs few' in there," Dorm governn member, said the penditure for proj jrocedure for ap- Simon and othe er, faced with the announced sever sated by Parker's including a bannc ed to hold an open Basie concert in ?osition. Towers game ro welcomed feedba issue, the council [roup was stunned "Please tell the a Moore hall suggestions to cor me council for its reay aamitteq going through a d get better. I'm trj iisorganized. I'm little about this ki 5 said. grind for awhile," it resident? burglary j for an extended period of time, Sanders said. These letters would help campus police better patrol unoccupied areas. Woodland Terrace resident, Kay Chandler, asked why police did not take fineerorints at the aDart ments. Harrelson later said fingerprints had not been taken in relation to the recent burglaries. * / 1 'Or ? aniaMnHBi 4rv Pf^SSt pax?. P: ' ;I' ' J -f---^?|^'>_:, ?/S^9E^9Ri|jttttuV',. Vk ' ' h :; B H Skip O'Rourfc* - GAMECG ts continu< is comments Wade left the meeting ! explained why he made the d the past three meetings, and all of [anized," Wade said. "They've lost the first month, and there is some w the new president was appointed, haphazard at best." i the need for better representation iment. jsentatives have practically no say "m really wasting my / \A/ar1a tre hail representative nor projects. There is no spirit here lents should be allowed to vote or nes. When you can't participate, yot eded,"hesaid. it he was not willing to spend limited meetings unless something con* omplished. He noted the attendance >ver half of the hall representatives ell as Treasurer Meg Tilghman. nented on the handling of funds. "I are spending money right and left, etent in handling our money/' he iment has about $9,000 in activity its budget, according to Jay Simon, :tor. nent should make public its exiects,Dean said. r mpmhcra of th*? RvamiHv? rniin^il al projects in the planning stages, ;r contest, a bus rental for the Count November, and renovations in the om. Simon said the dorm council ck from residents. >m that if they have complaints or ne to us," Simon said. mat tne dorm government was isorganized period, but that "it will rtng to do my best, but 1 know very nd of thing. It's gfling to be plug and he said, m fJ>. . _ ' '.wii 5, officials problem ''Thov chnnlH havo (olron nrintc T will admit this," but fingerprints probably wouldn't have done any good in this case because we think we are working with juveniles," he said. "i cuan i iohow inrougn. wnen i came back from the ball game I did not know there had been six burglaries." Harrelsonadded. ""|T ~ AT THE MEETING HarmSSSSS' relson said he wwwWIIIW wouid help the ' I' residents establish a type of I community watch I program, if they I were interested. 1 However, he said I he would not I become involved I in a vigilante-type group, but that he H would be willing 1 1 MMbMfW.'*' *? g1 ve a resPonsible group of residents radio communication with campus security. After the meeting John Leake, a Woodiand Terrac* resident, said he felt Harrelsonwaj concerned with ICK Trustees 2 reveal ath By Ma A?at N The USC board of trustees has c a Sept. 4 meeting in which the b USC athletic contracts. After an executive session Thi man r\f fK/i Knor/4 o# uiau \jl uic uvai u, icou 111c 01 minutes of our executive sessioi clients is not in the best interest involved and we would be destro which occured in executive sessi denied copies of the minutes of Sept. 4,1979." ALL MEMBERS of the board e BrocKington voten ior tneir refuse Leon A. Cooper, Sr. and Jack O Freedom of Information act vi< executive session on Sept. 4. The i basketball coach Frank McGuin i decided to separate Jim Carlen' head football coach when his coi that the president would seek to j conference." Jean Toal, attorney for WingaU direct violation of the FOI. She s court to halt the actions of the I pi i a nee of the FOI act. "I'M NOT AWARE of any way be finally voted on until the ne Dennis said after the meeting. The board passed a resolution j physical education and public hea I Francis Borkowski, USC pro' ! nationally known people in tin l curriculum and look at the qual them ascertain whether it might academically and financially to o | Borkowski said the move doe Commission on Higher Educatioi will remain as they have in the ps will continue with those degrees ai There will be a national searcl physical education department, a< "THE COLLEGE of public he credidation and we're all very pr< five-year accredidation, which is very rigorous accredidation procc ' ' mmmmmmmm i i their problem and was trying to solve it. Earlier, Carr said additional chain-type locks will be placed on the rear doors of the apartments beginning Monday. She added the locks had been ordered earlier, but just came in this week. In a story published Wednesday in the Gamecock it was reported that Harrelson said campus swnritv had natrolinc thp area three or four times per eight hour shift. Matt Wardrip, of apt. 10-A, called the Gamecock and said, "I have seen one police car through here since June." He added that he felt if the campus security had been sending three or four cars per eight hour shift he tir/\itl/l Kotrn f i\r\ i o vvuuiu nave oct:ii iiiciii in ujc ai cd more often. ONE RESIDENT said, although it was not allowed in residential housing, she kept a gun in her apartment. She said she did not i ?t ?t icxri luiuiui idmc in nei apui uiinu and was petrified at night "I was scared to death. Even if the gun was stuck in a drawer, it was my security," she said. "If (JSC can't protect my apartment, I will," another resident said. Residents in the area also said ? housing was not responsive to their 1 improvement requests. Kesterson e said he felt the residents of i Woodland Terrace have not been > getting the responses from housing they deserve. refuse to letic votes irk Platte aw> Editor lecided not to release the minutes of oard disclosed matters concerning jrsday, R. Markley Dennis, chair-atement; "The disclosure of the n of Sept. 4 to Mrs. Toal and her :s of the public nor the individuals lying the confidentiality of matters ion. Therefore, that her request be the board in executive session on xcept Hugh H, Wells and William S. al to release the minutes. . Wingate charged the board with a olation when the board went into board decided to replace USC head e at the end of the 1979-80 season ; s position of athletic director and itract expires in 1982, and decided place USC into a 4'comprehensive > and Cooper, said the board was in ?aid that her clients are asking the board until they are done in com- I that contracts and negotiations can gotiations have been completed," to combine the colleges of health, | ilth into the College of Health. j vost said, "We asked a team of ' i area of health to examine the ifications of the faculty and have be it the university's best interest ombine these colleges.'' sn't require appoval by the S.C. 1. The academic degree programs ist and students in those programs id programs which now exist, i to bring in someone to head the ^cording to Borkowski. alth recently underwent an ac)ud of the fact that they recieved a the maximum period of time in a < ss," Borkowski said.