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Volume L.XX No. 'university of South Carolina, Columbia.S.C. June 25, 1980
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By Walter AHread
Stuff Writer
USC fall tuition has gone up 16.8
percent for in-state students and 11
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percent iur uui-t>i-state siuueuus.
The Board of Trustees passed the
increases at its 1980-81 budget
meeting Thursday morning.
JFaced with cutbacks in state
appropriations ior the ninecampus
system, the board
unanimously moved to increase
full-time resident fees from $890 to
$1,040 annually and non-resident
AAA rirtA
iees irum ^z,uvu iu per year.
Graduate and regional campus
students will pay an additional $60
in fees annually.
USC President James B.
Holderman told the board that the
budget would have been $7.1
million short without the tuition
increases and administrative
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ternally. Even with these moves,
the $123,811,841 operating budget
for the system remains $1,326,650
in the red.
Under the commission on Higher
Education formula, Carolina was
recommended to receive $109.2
million, but the state legislature
cut that appropriation to $96.3
million.
uses MAIN CAMPUS will
handle its $5,051,276 difference
between available funds for the
coming fiscal year with an
estimated $2,756,475 in fee increases,
and by continuing a freeze
on vacant personnel positions.
Holderman told the board that
bv increasing administrative
charges to the eight regional
campuses and by changing the
manner of bond payments, the
Columbia campus will account for
all but $544,801, which is to be
managed internally.
The board moved methodically
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w
ion
and with limited discussion
through a lenethv agenda for
nearly two hours before Holderman
arose to give his report. He
spoke of continuing efforts to make
USC more responsive to the state's
higher education needs and said
the economic development of the
state is another commitment,
adding that it must be faced with
"extremely limited resources."
He told the board that USC is
working with Clemson Unviersity
studying energy resources and
talked about how the university's
Amdahl computer handles 108
accounts for 75 agencies in the
state. He asked for the board's
approval of the fee increases,
saying, "The place we have to
start is in increasing students'
tuition."
AS HOLDERM AN LED the
board through a 13-page document
detailing the proposed 1980-81
budgets for the nine USC cam
puses, there were few questions
Board member Dan Hendersor
asked, "Are we not approaching a
rather high fee structure?...If we
go much higher, we'll definitely be
pricing ourselves out of reach foi
some people."
Holderman said that if the
university were to attempt tc
continue to operate without the
budget changes, services wouic
have to be cut back.
Holderman said he was reluctanl
to propose a resident fee which
broke the "psychological barrier'
of over $1,000 but called it
necessary.
John Bolin, admissions directoi
for USC, told the Gamecock h(
believes most people today arc
used to price increases and expec
tuition fees "to keep pace wit!
everything else." He said, like gas
prices, costs of attending i
university go up and peoph
^maftemoon continuingdy
skies. Little chance of
cloudy skies continuing, but
Weekend hW
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s claim presidential report is
complain, but pay anyway.
Apparently resigned to su<
increases, students reacted
Bolin suggested. A 25-year-c
librarianship graduate stude
who asked not to be named sai
"It's a sign of the times."
TRACY ROCHESTER, a
year-old engineering junior, ss
the increase presents problei
hppancp "I'm hnvinf a ha
enough time making the housi
increases."
Jodie Marcus, a 23-year-r
graduate student in internatior
business studies said students li
himself ? living on a fixed bud$
? may be hit hardest. "It's hard
to get loans, it's harder to get t
money...and they keep raising 1
tuition."
Student Government Presid
Larry Kellner, who left the bo;
meeting to go to his job bef
Holderman requested the tuit
? increase, said he suspected th
i might be a proposal for such
* increase after the legislature
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^ Editor in Chk
USC students can no longer
Pit" because the university ne1
this month lost control of the p
r wants to park there now, he ha
the private company running tl
Furman Fulmer Co. control'
reserved spaces to anyone wh
1 parking price in the lot at the
Blossom streets next to the ]
Medical Center.
USC parking official Dann
v ; contained about 200 spaces am
J used for students. "I'm reall
||t females in the South Building
|$J . because the next closest place
park in is the Bates area."
BAKER SAII) the parking :
j problem this summer, but that
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numih uy iiic iuu, nidi n
m strain on the student parking si
yp Originally the land was pi
made to the City of Columbia
family. The family stipulated
||j maintained as a park and in
M agreement that would allow I
||j ship of the land if it was not use
As the years went by, the cil
agreement more and more,
I family attorney William Quir
use NEVER HAD the s
property," Quirk said. "They
ii the City of Columbia for the
I went on a day-to-day basis of'i
care'on using it."
USC Systems Vice-presidei
ning Dave Rinker said he
designated to be part of a pub)
he thought USC had the ap
Columbia to use the land as a p
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ler Kellner said he had not plann
he to speak out against the Hold*
:he man proposal: "I think it vi
justified because they didn't rea
have any other place to go to f
ent the money."
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ore KELLNER SAID he tried to s!
ion the increase in May by writi
ere letters to legislators and lobbyi
an for USC at the State House. The
cut president said he spoke w
ts can't pc
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the City of (
torney Roy I
park for free in "the the city to u:
ver owned the land and there and usi
arking lot. If a student not a written
s to pay $15 a month to The famih
helot. used by USC
5 the lot and is offering being used a:
10 is willing to pay the the re-entry <
corner of Pickens and them to reg
Booker T. Washington "Thedecisio
they found t
iy Baker said the lot said.
d that all of them were THE FAM
y concerned about the set out to de
and South Tower area land. Quirk
' available for them to complex woi
But the univ<
situation will not be a so that they c
if the lot is not back in Quirk sai(
will put a tremendous university \
ituation. development
irt of a 17-acre grant family decid
in 1911 by the Rembert to handle th<
that the land was to be that they cou
eluded a clause in the USC has t
them to regain owner- boundaries I
ld for a park threatening
:y encroached upon the gaining any
according to Rembert said "But ii
k. to further lit
lightest claim on the I,e8a
had no agreement with
use of the land. They 60 de*ermin
f you don't care, I don't reach some <
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it for Facilities Plan- and that it ii
knew the land was trying
ir nnrk hut that even made a
proval of the City of buy the land
marking lot.
jn Increases
i i-St ate Out-of-State
$331 $811
$366 $846
$370 $850
$445 $1,000
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"leaders of both houses," but
ed declined to name any individuals
*r- because "it might look like they
as didn't help us enough."
lly John Bannister, director of
?et student financial aid at USC, said
his department anticipated an
increase in fees and the University
Lop plans to assist students in covering
mg the additional costs.
ing "But the critical thing is that
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irk free
>t
is no formal lease agreement between
Columbia and the university," City AtSates
said. "USC had permission from
se the land and we knew that they were
ing it," he said. "But I'm sure there was
lease on 11.
y was angered that the land was being
Z for a student parking lot and was not
s a park and entered into litigation under
clause in the agreement that would allow
ain ownership of the land, Quirk said,
n came down in June from the courts and
he re-entry clause to be proper," Quirk
ILY REGAINED control of the land and
cide on the most economical use of the
said. "Condominiums or an apartment
lid probably be the best use for the land.
?rsity is threatening to condemn the land
ran buy it."
1 the threat of condemnation by the
vould screw up any financing of a
: on the land. Therefore, he said, the
ed to contract with Furman Fulmer Co.
2 leasing of parking spaces at the lot so
ild make some money from the land.
he power to condemn land around its
because it is a state agency. "They are
to condemn it to prevent the family from
economic benefit from the land," Quirk
f they do condemn it, 1 think it might lead
igation -- and nobody wants that."
I n 1 * ? i it/ j : j ai i a.1 *
i v uuiistfi i (iui warn saiu wnemer or noi
the condemnation alternative has yet to
led. It would only be used if we cannot
other agreement."
\II) THE family wants to keep the land
s not for sale. He said that USC has not
to buy the land and that they have not
i reasonable offer. "If they really want to
, USC had better get serious," Quirk said.
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