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Housim By FORREST BROWN Staff Writer A USC student trying to get out of her housing contract with Residential Life Services is having to pay $75 a week until RLS finds cnmoAno fro fwiinv her UVMlkwatv/ wvr ?? room. The USC junior, who wants to remain anonymous, said r* Iaooa fAt* a WaHa 31IC ai^iicu a lcaov ivi ? i uuv. Hampton Hotel room last spring without reading it. During the summer, however, she also signed a lease for an off-campus apartment, not realizing her campus lease required her to contact RLS immediately about her change of plans. She said she had assumed the only money she would forfeit was her $100 room deposit. Because she had waited too long to request a release from her housing contract, however, RI^S told her she would have to pay the full cost of the room. She said she was told the only way she could be released from her lease was if she got married, quit school or chose a special payment option. Dr. Richard D. Wertz, associate vice president for Business Affairs and RLS, said 4 4 We are willing to work out a payment schedule for people who can't return. We also let people out of their leases if there are ex tenuating circumstances, such as someone's father dying or if someone got married." WERTZ ADDED, however, that to the best of his knowledge no one has ever had to quit the university because he or she couldn't make housing payments. "We've always worked something out," he said. The use student i Telephone Book is Here! j' Attention: OFF C ; Get your FR ; formation De d nonf U^rnor I I J k/L.f I IUI fyfv/l ' ; "Where do \ ! "Where dc IN THEM j; THE I g Holds The student then went to the Office of the President, where presidential assistant John S. Beckham Jr. helped her work out what she thought was a special deal. Instead of paying the housing fee in one lump sum, she was allowed to pay weekly installments of $75 until her room is filled. She said she paid her first incfollmant of rorticfrptinn flnH OMIUlAiVtAi' Uv a mvavm w-v. the next is due Sept. 11 if the room is not filled. Even the deferred payment plan will hurt her financially, she said. "If they (RLS) find someone to take the room, I can get out of the lease. However, I may pay $150 before they try to fill up the room," she said. Wertz said "The waiting list (for dormitory space) is very inflated. We usually call 10 people before we can get one person to move into a dorm room. These people find off-campus housing. If we let everybody who wanted to get out of their lancoc if lira nnillrl onH lirv UU ltf </T ^ WMIVI V1IU up with some vacancies." "In the summer, we are pretty lenient about students breaking leases. Beyond Aug. 19, it is pretty hard to release someone from their lease," Wertz said. UNTIL SHE is released I from her housing contract,! the student must continue to j fhn iirAnlrlu incfnllmonfe I pajr uic vti^viuj iiwuxtimviiM. She does, however, have one final alternative. "My last hope is appeals court, but chances are that appeals court will not let me out of this one," she said. The appeals court is composed of students and faculty who listen to special hardship cases concerning the leases. If the appeals court /Iaai/I/ui fknf />t tin nit* ucviuco uiai uuioiuc cii cumstances are bad enough, ; r. AMPUS STU EE COPY at Rus isk or at the G College on the Hoi fou go when your sp i you find all the Spe< OST USED BOOK ON ( UNIVERSITY DIRECTC Girl To it will let a tenant out of a lease. The student admits her fault in the mishap. "I should have read the lease. I should have let them (RLS) know earlier (of her plans to " V I A. T move on-campusj, oui 1 didn't. When you mess up, you face the consequences." But she added, "What has happened to me has happened to a lot of people. I think the system is bad. It's a big mess. Who would want to pay for a room you don't live in?" She said she was upset with the impersonal, bureaucratic system at m^s, and with Linda Saad, director of women's housing, in particular. "SHE COULDN'T have been more cold," the student said of Saad. "I was reduced to tears, and she thought the whole thing was amusing. Mrs. Saad was very unsympathetic. She was very rude." Saad was unavailable for comment to resDond to the student's charges. The GAMECOCK is the student ntwipipfr ot the University of South Carolina and is published four times a week on Mondays, Wenesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during the fail and spring semesters and weekly on Wednesdays during both summer sessions, with the exception of university hoSdays and examination periods. Opinions expressed in the GAMECOCK are those of the editors and not those of the University of South CaroKna. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. The Board of Student Publications and Communicaticro is the publisher of the GAMECOCK. The Student Media Department is the parent organization of the GAMECOCK Change of address forms, subscription requests and other correspondence should h* uni in mu rlurror^ a~? iciii University of South Carotna, Cokimbii, S.C. 29208. Subscription rate* are $15.00 for one (1) year, $9.00 per (al or spring semester and $3.00 (or both summer sessions. Third das* postage paid at Columbia SC. [SL* TB--3 [T i > ?1 H 1 ? nuML' ' MBm ij JflgWB I DENTS sell House in- j: Dmrruinications : seshoe. | irltsarelow"? ! :ial Times"? j; AMPUS... IRY ; Lease Hie student said she also does not believe RLS is being truthful with her about the difficulties of assigning her a- -i i room 10 someone eise. a ney told me that they didn't have a waiting list, but I find that hard to believe. I know two or three people who want the room now/' she said. She was also angry because she said she had been led to believe she had Deen ^IVCII a apci;iai deferred payment plan. While at the RLS office, however, she said she saw 10 other people discussing special deferred payments. I THOUGHT they (RLS) were giving me a special favor, but they weren't," she said. "If I had the money," she said, "I would pay to avoid all this hassle . . . They can turn blue in the face for asking for it, but if you don't have it, you just don't." Wertz advised other students facing housing contract difficulties not to sign up for a room "unless you really want it." jjoiane von isasson . Jordaet MEMBE THE Sl( We would like i representative of Design< $ Designer Fashi Q manufacture's c< Q buy at wholesale / evAiini c. iCAHIVirkE. Diane von fui retail stores. 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Carolina plays Pacific here at 1:30 Nov. 7, and the stadium will have to be emptied before camp-out time. Goodman said 11,000 tickets will be available for students, but that includes the band and block-seating, j Block-seating for the game will be based on tne number of tickets the organization has picked up for previous v games. * 1 Goodman estimates there will be 6,000 to 7,000 tickets j left over for the rest of the students, and tickets will be one per person with a valid student LP. } Furstenberg . Gloria | vanderbilt l Klein . Ralph Lauren j ? ie . 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