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Uncertainty surrou f By Cal Harrison TU? 11/ 1- iv a ?? '? i iic nauc nainpion note! win oe sold sometime before the fall semester commences, USC legal counsel said. The 12-story building, bought by USC in 1979, went up for sale in May, and legal counsel Paul Ward said bids for the building have been under evaluation and are in the negotiation stage. The purchase of the Wade Hampton, originally a hotel and n rnl.imUin 1 ^ .1 1, A. 1 ini/\. 1 > 1 1 t a v uiumuia iauuuiaiK Mute mc i^hv/s, was maue possioie oy a $3 million U.S. Department of Education loan. Ward would not comment on the expected sale price of the Wade Hampton, but the 1982 appraised value of the building and the lot was about $5.9 million, according to the Richland County Assessor's office. South*>Caro 1 iniana*&Li bra Horseshoe m *o mds sale of ^de 4 The parking lots adjacent to the builing were appraised at $526,000 and $130,000. The I ISDP loan u/ac at a 1 ivrr^nt intprpct rafp fr*r ACl uparc and it was granted with the understanding that the profit from the sale of the property would go to dorm renovations. "USC has a critical need for monies to renovate other dormitories. The IJSDF. recnonizerf this need anH lent the mnnpv with the understanding that the the Wade Hampton would be sold within five or six years," Ward said. USC pays no property taxes on the dorm, and Ward said USC has a similar agreement with the City of Columbia. "Everyone knew USC wouldn't keep the Wade Hampton ?u? c: ? ...i : 1 1 >. j > iiiuic nidii iivc ui si a ycctij> wiicii 11 was pui cuascu. 11 uucmi i fit in at all with the other USC buildings," he said. "In 1979, USC had a critical need for housing, and no one could predict how the housing situation would go. The pur ry * a Hampton hotel chase was made before the stricter admission requirements went into effect as well as the stricter deficit point system." "As it turned out, USC does not need the Wade Hampton, but the money from the sale will aid the much-needed dorm renovations," he said. Ward said $2.79 million of the $3 million loan was used to pay for the property. Payments on the loan are made annually at a simple interest rate, which means as the loan is paid off, the amount of interest also lessens with no penalties for early payment. With this information in mind, a Banker's Trust loan of ficial said this year's interest would be about $78,750 or about $6,500 for each month the dorm is not sold. The Wade Hampton was built in two phases, the first completed in 1940 and the second in 1956, on about two acres of land. 2"" Gamecock Founded 1908 Volume 77, No. 9 University of South Carolina August 8, 1984 USC examines of new legal i By Hal Hewell and Ann Farmer The new legal drinking age is the law and i USC staff and administrators will pursue I student compliance through education and enforcement. . Julie Busch, USC coordinator of Greek affairs, an area of student life that may be most visibly affected, said, "The biggest thing is education. I think with something ukc mis, me aiconoi policy, you can i overeducate them on what the new lawsare, and what the university ylcohol policy will be." According to Busch, social behavior that has been acceptable in the past will need to change as the student's freedom of choice concerning alcohol becomes limited. "The bottom line is that they are going to have to be more creative in their programming," she said. OUTLINES OF university alcohol policy and state law on the new legal drinking age have been sent to fraternity representatives well before rush begins and the process will be repeated to ensure a tnorougn unueiManding of the new rules, Busch said. Annette Priee, co-chairman of GAMMA, Greeks against Mismanagement of Alcohol, will be working with Busch to bring state legislators to speak at USC on the new law. Busch quoted the results of an Interfraternity Council meeting last Wednesday. "Rush. Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 27th and 28th will be sponsored by the IFC and will involve no fraternity sponsored alcohol parties, events." [ "ENFORCEMENT OF this ruling will be by a gentleman's agreement of trust among I the chapters and by periodic visits of the IFC cabinet and executive board," she said. The document detailed penalties for violations. "There is some resistance. It's hard tor students to understand this is state law and not something the university pulled out of a hat and said, 'Hey we need to change our ! alcohol policies.' To be the bad guy. That's not the case at all," she said. Inside Classified 8 ^ mnnl ^ Uiiici i.aiiuiibiii' _ Opinion 4 Sports 7 "Successful year/* SO president Glenn German plans special project for fall. 2 Good "News." Pop singer Huey Lewis vyows audience at the Carolina Colieum. 5 "Second to none." Sol Blatt Physical Education Center offers variety to IJSC students 7 enforcement j ummmy dye Jerry Brewer, student activities director, said campus policy is becoming what residential policy used to be. He said this was because more than half of the srudents would fall under the new law. Hfc CI I t.LP a survey done last spring that showed an average age of 20.7 years for USC juniors. These ages would be more than half a year younger in the fall, and with the drinking age going to 20 in January, and possibly 21 by 1986, Brewer said USC had to act to j enforce the law? , He said the law was not written so much for colleges as to reduce the number of deaths due to drunk driving, a severe problem for the 16 to 24 age group. He cited the intense lobbying efforts for the bill by groups such as MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and SADD, Students Agaiftst Drunk Driving. "I Unrin nlllflnn+P flnn't rOPQIl/Q I WUUIU liupc OIUUCIIIO UUII I lOKbivu the new 19 years-old drinking age as any kind of punishment, but as a sign of a caring society." Mara Hudson | Lexington-Richland County MADD President Mara Hudson, president of the LexingtonRichland chapter of MADD, said 44I would hope students don't receive the new 19 yearsold drinking age as any kind of punishment but as a sign of a caring society. 1 would hope that it would be interpreted as a caring piece of legislation. We do see the age going to 20 in January '85. Hopefully, under the new directive under Congress, it will, in January '86 go to 21. We're pushing a bill to do that," she said. SHE SA1I) South Carolina would lose about $7.4 million the first year if it did not comply with the new federal law denying a percentage of highway funds to states whose drinking age is lower than 21. When told of planned changes in USC's alcohol policy that would prevent underage students from attending functions with alcohol, or eliminating such functions entirely, Hudsonsaid,44 I think that's unfair; why can't they card students and not serve those underage? It would seem more fair then excluding some students." Dr. Donald Swanson, a clinical psychologistof the USC Counseling Center, said attitudes toward alcohol are beginning to change. People are becoming more aware of the dangers of alcohol but the educational process will be gradual, using the more than 20 years of anti-smoking efforts that have * . - . r sharply changed the public's perception 01 smoking as an example. Swanson did not specifically anticipate more students seeking counseling due to Jtol|MH: '?*f ^"ii . jpSL ^v^B| K^^aM| Hot sounds at the coliseu Huey Lewis, harmonica, with saxophonist Johnr alcohol problems, but said that the center does counsel them now, and that a counselor with experience in the treatment of alcohol and substance abuse would join the staff this fall. Swanson said it was rare that a student would seek counseling solelyfor alcohol and drug abuse alone, unless their behavior had become disruptive to the point they had intersected the system, such as a series of DUI's. "IT'S MORE a matter of other issues in their lives; maybe depression, relationship problems or whatever. As we bring them into the system, the alcohol problem will surface," he said. He said the counseling center was not a punishment to the student with a problem, not a part of the disciplinary system but a Yesource offering students help in many aspects of their life at USC. *f JEJMB Photo courtesy Colombia Newspapers i im iv Colla perform to a packed house Sunday night. J USC law enforcement officials said they would not turn their heads if confronted with blatant breaking of the new law, but they don't anticipate any more problems for the university than before. "We don't 'police' university functions, student affairs regulates student activities," Carl Stokes, director of law enforcement and safety, said. "THEY'RE LOOKING for a long-time solution to an age-old problem, and how to best save and ultimately help tne student, deputy director Danny Baker said. The division offers programs on handling alcohol, such as the DUI 500 program at Columbia Hall and breathalyzer tests during the annual All NIitf?r\ "We're pro-active," Baker said. "People abusing alcohol need to be educated. Education is what a university is all about.