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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
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The USC junior, who wants
to remain anonymous, said
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Hie student said she also
does not believe RLS is being
truthful with her about the
difficulties of assigning her
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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."
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