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Reagan to visit USC, TV station reports Fran Stiff and Wire Reports President Ronald Reagan will include USC in a visit to Columbia Tuesday, and will probably receive an honorary degree, a Columbia television station reported yesterday. "Political insiders expect the university to award the president an honorary degree/* W1S-TV reported. i ne Associated Kress quoted Republican Party officials as saying the president's visit is on behalf of Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., and that he will attend a fund-raising dinner at the State Fairground's Cantey building. John Courson, the state GOP's national committeeman and Thurmond associate, said the trip should generate more than $200,000 in one night for the senator's reelection campaign. The 81-year-old senator hasn't announced a re-election bid, but says he will campaign as if facing significant Democratic opposition. Warren Tompkins, state party executive director, said organizers expect to sen more tnan z.uuu tickets, at 3>ioo, $200 and $500, for the dinner. It is tentatively set for 6:30 p.m., he said. The president is tentatively scheduled to arrive in Colum bia about 4 p.m. to attend two private receptions for Thurmond, the AP reported. The White House gave no official confirmation on Reagan's visit on Monday. USC officials will announce details of the visit today, Information Services Director Hans Knoop told the Gamecock last night. WHA T DO YOU WANT WHEN YOU GROW - fSoiiV**8 CM?0 100M Russell House Ballrooc 10:00 3:00 Iiao-udm Jjcylg 14 oz. COKE! WITH AN' [ DAILY 0 I TWO 14" ONE i FOR QNL ; I i PLUS 40 I j ONE COUPON II I Good Only Wei 1 WHERE EXTRA CHEESE Construction Cutinwa MCKISSICK MUSEUMS are being renovated to make room for new Information Services offices. The work is not elaborate, Bass said, but involves renovating a space designed to house a museum. The cost is $16,000, he said. Further renovations to the museums are for a theater similar to that in Byrnes International Center for public viewing of the Movietone News newsreel collection Cost for the theater is $30,000, Bass said. The education museum was moved from the third floor of McKissick to the College of Education in Wardlaw, hp caiH Power outage c By Beth "irrison A mai power circuit blew o?i Main outages i Bates House, Bates West, Cli Blatt Physical Education Center. The power outage, which occurred a lasted for exactly an hour, according t House hall advisor. "Some people wen between the fifth and sixth floors for 30 said. Ratpc Hnncp rpciHpntc orithprpH in the power to be restored by South Carolina 1 UF? ?? ~ 1 he ? ^ _x 1 al \ I wi _____ | sc 1 se I c m ! I | mmm. 256QgggfcdBRjBti ; ONLY 25< { PIZZA OUBLE J ITEM PIZZAS I r $9.80 \ < TAX | PER PIZZA I Is., Sept. 14 | ^^ALWAY^STM id friw E?f 1 Several additions to Williams-Brice Stadium were completed during the cummer inr*lnHinn q npu/ nnhlir Q H - auniiiivi 9 111VIUU1115 u uv? puv/nv mv? dress system, Bass said. A theater for viewing football films was added, in addition to several meeting rooms, a coaches' area and a hall where portraits of past team captains hang. THE ATHLETIC department spent about $600,000 on the additions, Bass said. Renovations on Davis College include sandblasting and painting, Bass said, and should be completed by Dec. 1. iccurs in west pa pany. They told jol Strppt ransinp nnwer emereencv liehts. ff Apartments and the Some of the resi Beckett and Norma bout 10 p.m. Sept. 6, the elevator. "It wa :o Billy Pace, a Bates The elevators in E s stuck in the elevator capacity," accordin] > to 40 minutes," Pace tor. "Somebody wa the door (elevator) < ir halls to wait for the Bates West residei Electric and Gas Com- Alderman said. "Nc KHMJgjjn The USC Racquetball Club wi ild its 1st mfifitinn on S?nt 7:00 PM in room 135 in the E. Center. All students, fact id spouses are welcome. Cc II be available after the mee ) come dressed to play. Dues will be $5.00 per jmester. Contact: Toni Petretti 776-2 or John Shields 777-927; if you have any question! 030l||Pain,ers I I Khaki Tr I I Army Fa I I 0vera"s | Overalls II Trousers jj Blue Jeai ; We can s. jjl following Bass called the expanded College of Business Administration building a "a real nice building." It includes a twolevel parking garage with about 300 spaces. "It was not due to be completed in time for the fall semester, but we were able to give it to them early," Bass said. BASS SAID work at Woodrow dorm, including painting and work on the patio, was to wrap up renovations begun in 1982. "We were not able to do the outside work until this past spring," he said. irt of campus kes, talked and studied under the hall's dents yelled encouragement to Shannon Eichlin, two students who were stuck in s really scarey," Beckett said. lates West were working, "but not at full g to Gary Alderman, residence hall direcs stuck on the sixth floor, but they pried 3pen and got themselves out." nts were helpful during the power outage, ) one panicked or got upset or anything." 1 m/mmm, ?-?????-? f| The GAMfcCOCK is the student newsH paper of the University of South Carolina | and is published three times a week on . _ ^ Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays dur| O ^ ing the fail and spring semesters and ^ weekly on Wednesdays during both sum^ ^ mer sessions, with the exception of uni * | versity holidays and examination periods. ^ Opinions expressed in the (iAMK HIV KjJ cui iv are those 01 the editors and not ^ those of the University of South Carolina. 11 I f~f"Ci ^ The University of South Carolina is an ^ equal opportunity institution, i ^ The Hoard of Student Publications and [|j|Q ^ Communications is the publisher of the | GAMECOCK. 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