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A NEW COMPUTER to be installed in
February at USC will improve campus
telephone service and change the dialing
procedure.
Georee Kev. soecial assistant tn th#?
president for communications, said the new
computer will make it necessary to change
to five-digit dialing because the electronic
switching system is more sophisticated and
eff icient than the present one.
While there are no major problems with
the present system, it is nearing its
telephone capacity. Key said the number of
lines grows monthly as buildings are
completed and new phones are installed at
use.
THE CHANGE will be in February
because the present system would then be
unable to accommodate line increases.
Southern Bell Telephone has not yet started
installation of the system.
Some phone numbers will change in
February, and all numbers will be preceded
by the number seven.
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By Tammy KHpatrick
Assistant Ntwi Editor
Only 10 of 48 student security guards have
been hired to work at USC dormitories
under a new hiring system for guards.
Residential Life Services will hire
students, paid by the department of housing.
In past years, work-study guards have been
used.
Bobby Haldeman, Moore residential hall
director, said only 10 guards have been
hired so far but most of the guards should be
hired by the end of the week.
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one night because of the guard shortage, few
problems have resulted, said Haldeman.
The switch from work-study guards to
those hired by Residential Life is an attempt
to control security problems and raise
morale among the guards.
Susan Dunton, Bates residential hall
director, said the program is in transition
and will experience some problems. "This
year we'll be able to make some changes
and we'll have some flons. hut npxt vpar
we'll have a uniform procedure for
security," she said.
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THE NEW system will be able to handle
the growth in telephone lines and will also
have many new features to improve service
to campus office phones.
By dialing code numbers, an office worker
will be able to hold three-way phone conversations
or automatically forward his
calls to another number. He will be able to
put a caller on hold and dial another number
on the same line, eliminating the need for
"six button" phones in offices.
Because the new system handles more
lines, individual lines will be less expensive
to maintain. Key said a telephone line that
costs $20 a month under the present system
will cost about nine dollars after February.
AN ADVANTAGE of the system for
students is the improvement of the
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hiring guards who will live and work in the
same dorm, Dunton said. "Usually people
living in the area they work in create a sense
of pride and responsibility," she said.
PROBLEMS IN THE past have included
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guards leaving meir posts ana not snowing
up for work but Dunton said an incident at
Sims "opened up a lot of people's eyes to
nighttime security." A man slipped past a
security guard last semester and entered
the rooms of several sleeping students'
before being apprehended.
"I think we've just been lucky nothing has
happened they could hold us accountable
for," Dunton said.
Resident guards should create better
security in dorms, Haldeman said. "They'll
know the people coming in and out, and it
will cut out a lot of tardiness and people not
showing up," he said.
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were stolen from a car parked in the Bates
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spray-painted a silver line on the Roundhouse.
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SATURDAY AUG.23 - A purse was stolen
from a Bates House dormitory room and
was later recovered with the money
missing.
FRIDAY AUG.22 - A false fire alarm was
reported on the seventh floor of Laborde
dormitory. A bicycle was stolen from a
Russell House bike rack.
THURSDAY AUG.21 - A non-student was
arrested for public drunkenness in the Wade
Hampton Hotel.
| WEDNESDAY AUG.20 - A Woodland
Terrace Apartments resident reported
some items missing from his apartment.
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TUESDAY AUG.19 - An AM/FM radio, a
trunk containing 50 paperback books, three
glass beer mugs and a couch and chair set
were stolen from a Preston dormitory room.
Some personal property valued at $1,990
was also stolen from a Preston dormitory
room. A car parked in the Cliff Apartments
lot was found with its window down, glove
compartment open and registration
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MONDAY AUG.18 - A false fire alarm was
reported in Horseshoe Tenement 15.
SUNDAY AUG.17 - A non-student was
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Sumter and Pendleton streets. There was a
false fire alarm in the engineering building.
A non-student was arrested for drunken
driving in the 1700 block of Blossom Street.
Ten albums were stolen, and a jukebox and
pinball machine were pried open after the
lodge at Bell Camp was entered illegally. A
non-student was arrested by campus police
after he admitted he set off a fire alarm in
Russell House.
FRIDAY AUG.15 - A battery was stolen
from a car parked near the corner of
Pickens and Pendleton streets. A custodial
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lobby.
THURSDAY AUG.14 - A non-student was
arrested for drunken driving after driving
at a high speed along the 500 block of Sumter
Street. A staff member's purse was stolen
from an unlocked file cabinet in a
humanities building office.
WEDNESDAY AUG. 13 - A Cliff Apartments
resident discovered that his
calculator had been stolen after he left his
apartment unlocked for five minutes.
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