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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
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$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.
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The parking lots adjacent to the builing were appraised at
$526,000 and $130,000.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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the new 19 years-old drinking age as
any kind of punishment, but as a sign
of a caring society."
Mara Hudson
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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
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sharply changed the public's perception 01
smoking as an example.
Swanson did not specifically anticipate
more students seeking counseling due to
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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.
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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.