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By Danny Poweii
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Some Wade Hampton Hotel residents
have started the semester tolerating unwanted
guests in their rooms - mice.
One student, intolerant of the rodents,
refuses to live in her room until the mice are
evicted.
4Tm scared to death and ready to go
home," said Lorraine Smith, a junior
elementary education major from
Greenville. "I'm not going to stay in my
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"The university just doesn't care," Smith
said. "And you pay all this money ($650 a
semester) for what, more roommates?"
"IT IS A problem," said Willis Bennett of
North Charleston. "You can hear them
gnawing in the walls at night. I'm hoping it
u/ill hp nvpr cnnn "
"I've got them (mice) myself," said Bob
Coens, the hotel's residential hall director.
"I had the same problem last year, but I
think I had it worse than now.
"After about the first month, the problem
goes away," Coens said. "If they
(residents) want to get rid of them right
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Although in-state tuition students, cc
increased 16.8 percent this $275 ten years
semester, a USC graduate the index tc
student says tuition is dollars into le
cheaper today than ten years dollars, Klecl
ago. the 1980 tuiti
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graduate studying for his decade ago.
doctorate in economics, used
the consumer price index to THE INDE
reach this conclusion. that measur<
Kleckley said inflation has focusing on
decreased the value of the wage earner']
dollar faster than tuitions The nationa
have increased. While the published m
cost seems to have doubled Bureau of Lat
since - 1970, students are Out-of-st
paying less in real dollars to dergraduates
get a hipher education in' semester, J
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Crime prevei
program plai
Tom Coyne said.
sta? writer Key said he
A slide show planned for the younger
summer 1981 will show USC officers to ta
students how to protect in Universit
themselves against crime. next fall.
George Key, director of
campus security, estimated Warren
the slide show would cost Carothers, tl
$3000 to $4000. The media ter's business
arts department is about 70 to 8(
producing the visual part of center's $1.5
the show and a professional is labor cost
writer has been hired to administrati
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Key said 80 percent of all c'ra.^d0!,'^
campus crimes are 4'crimes w?#k on Monday
of opportunity, involving ^v,%rJuri;;d 1
unlocked doors, open rooms, Wednesdays du.
or unattended purses. sessions wuh
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down their purse, comes Tha univar?Kv
back a few minutes later and " oppo?un
it's gone," he said. *h* BolMd
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Another major problem th? gamecock
facing campus police is pw#*
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thefts from cars. chanaa of ?
"With 15,000 cars on ipiion requ
campus during the day and gamecock.* ik
8,000 at night spread over Hou?a.
such a vast area, it is im- JSIIw^bo \
pOSSible tO expect tO COVer forth??uinrn?rM
that area successfully," Key Third po?t
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away, I would advise them to invest i
mousetrap."
Smith said she got no help from the h
desk when she reported a dead m(
discovered in her room. "In essence,
woman at the desk said they did not h
enough staff to worry about rats in
rooms," she said.
"WE HAVE POISON all over
building," said Norman Wifcson, h
supervisor. "We did what we could foi
and we will keep on working on it." Wil
said he has heard no complaints since
poison was put out Friday.
Smith said when she first conta<
Wilson Aug. 26, "He took it so casually, i
one mouse was running around in the ro
as if it was no big deal. I called Presic
Holderman." Smith said an exterminj
arrived at her room about twenty mini
after she talked to Holderman's secretar
"He (the exterminator) didn't bothei
check for holes. He asked me where to
the poison, as if I was an expert," j
Smith. She said she found between five
seven possible mouse holes in her room.
"The exterminator said he could rnakt
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a bargain
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