The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 05, 1984, Page 4, Image 6
Median constri
in Blossom Str
By Warren Bolton s
The construction of a wrought iron >
fence down the center of the Blossom
Street median is underway, a USC
spokesman said.
Ed Bass, director of project development,
said the fence should be finished by
the end of this month.
Bass said USC will also install a
sprinkler system after the fence is finished.
The sprinkler system will consist of
two parts ? a sprinkler head system will
be put above ground and a driD svstem
will be put underground.
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VISTA BEAUTIFICATION Group i
chairman John Baker said the construc- >
tion of the fence and the sprinkler system \
is nart of Dlans to beautifv the Blossom I
Street median. The Vista Beautification 1
Group is an organization within the Columbia
Action Council, a group of F
business people geared toward improving $
Columbia. s
Baker said the Community Design
Center completed the landscape plant to
enhance the appearance of the Blossom q
Street median between South Main and n
Pickens streets. o
The Design Center's plans also include
the planting of 40 crape myrtle trees, 20 v
Bradford pear trees, 2,200 bulbs, 380 u
raphiolepsis, 400 barberry and 690 nv
juniper plants down the median. Vista c;
will be in charge of the planting.
The project is expected to be finished in je
early April, Baker said. o
th
VISTA CO-CHAIRMAN Jack Walker
said the plants and fence will improve the cl
look of the median and will restrict si
I pedestrian traffic to designated T
crosswalks. He also said the size of the G
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pi its minority enrollme
cording to a state <
tudents will be able to stand on them Education report,
vhile waiting to cross the street. USC's goal was to
Walker said the plans originated from up 16.6 percent of
:oncern about pedestrian traffic across minority enrollment
he busy roadway and the desire to im- ding to a report issu
>rove the median's appearance. Walker Francis Marion C
;aid members of Vista encouraged USC to the highest gap betw
levelop a safe, appealing landscape enrollment and its g<
lesign for the median. He said it took a South Carolina ne
ong time for Vista, the USC Planning plan with the federa
Center and the Community Design Center an effort to rid tl
o come up with an attractive and safe universities of t
lesign. segregation.
Bass said USC had intentions to Of the seven instit
levelop the median all along. "When the their goals, four mai
nedian was put in it was agreed that USC targeted totals, the (
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vas instrumental in developing a plan the a 9.3 percent minoril
Department of Highways and Public to its targeted 17 pei
rransportation would approve. The report also sh<
Walker said the estimated cost of the actually had an over
>roject is $32,000. USC is expected to pay tage of minority stu
122,000 of the cost and Vista the rest, he 1983 - from 10.7 per
aid.
OTHER COLLE<
BAKER SAID the city will not be re- their 1983-84 goals
luired to do any maintenance work on the Charleston (8 percen
ledian. USC will take care of the area enrollment), Lander
nee work is finished. and 14.8 percent), 1
Walker said an interesting theme in- and 6.1 percent) U
olved in the project is the same materials and 14 percent), and
sed in the construction of the median percent and 14.4 per
'ill be used to improve areas of USC's Colleges that met t
ampus next to the median. University (4.1 perce
Waker said he doesn't believe the pro- enrollment), the Med
:ct will totally disrupt traffic. He said Carolina (5 percent
ne lane may have to be closed, but not Coastal Carolina (7
le entire street. cent) and USC-Spart
Walker said subcommittees are in 9 1 percent).
large of the project's fund-raising. One "Overall, the stat
ibcommittee is USC-oriented. he said. u/hilp inctitiitinnc m:
his sub-committee will try to get Student creasing the numbei
lovernment, fraternities, sororities and students in 1983 ove
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is to meet minorit
Reports "The t o t a
ie seven state-supported undergraduates
ities that failed to meet white institutions
nt goals for 1983-84, ac- ceni, compared i
Commission on Higher 10 percent in 198
have minorities making BUT THE co
enrollment, but actual minority enrollm
was 14.5 percent, accor- campuses ? whi
ed Thursday. desegration plai
College in Florence had number and pe
een its current minority 1983.
Dal for the school year.
gotiated a desegregation Commissioner
1 government in 1981 in said he was "sho
le state's colleges and state is halfway
he last vestiges of "and we have r
than we have."
utions that did not meet Smith said it r
ic progress toward their mission and the c
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-nn. rcpuii saiu. nun uum lun^-it
ancis Marion this year as closely at some
:y enrollment, compared the enrollment u]
rcent. But Commissi<
ows that Francis Marion he believed state
all decline in its percen- grams will begin
dents between 1981 and leges will move
cent to 9.3 percent. goals.
jES that failed to meet "IT HAS takei
were: The College of designed and intc
t onal and a ft S nerrpnf eress to thic nni
College (15.5 percnet follow other
^he Citadel (9.6 percent (negotiated) thr
SC-Aiken (15.3 percent Carolina is in a \
Winthrop College (15.8
cent). Dr. Thomas S
heir goals were Clemson Marion, said Thi
int goal and 4.2 percent satisfied with its
lical University of South but believes it h
and 6.2 percent), USC- will improve the
.7 percent and 7.8 per- "This summer
anburg (8.6 percent and ton plan' where
minority studeni
e's senior traditionally work with them t
ade modest gains in in- improve other b;
r and percent of black Stanton said tl
r the levels in 1982 and ing financed by ?
on report stated. grant from the s
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1 percent of black
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? in fall 1983 was 10.2 per0
9.95 percent in 1982 and
11."
mmission also noted that
lent at the state's two-year
ich are not included in the
1 ? declined "in both
rcent" between 1981 and
Mortimer Smith of Cayce
eked" when he realized the
through its five-year plan
lot progressed any further
night be time for the comolleges
"to shift their attenrm
solutions and look more
short-term ways of getting
P-"
Dner Roosevelt Gilliam said
:-financed recruitment proto
pay off soon and the colmore
rapidly toward their
i time to get these programs
> place," he said. "Our proint
is not unusual. As we
plans that have been
oughout America, South
'ery good position."
tanton, president of Francis
iirsday that his college is not
current minority enrollment
as recruiting programs that
situation in the near future.
, we are beginning the 'Stan
we will admit 40 marginal
ts to a summer camp and
0 develop study skills and to
asic skills," he said.
he recruiting program is be1
$68,000 desegregation plan
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