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Pets Kitty can't live on can but some do anyway By Linda Taylor It seems like a lot of things will never se of a USC dorm room. The 1984-85 Car< munity Student Policy Manual include mopeds, microwaves, waterbeds and mo: pets in its list of no-no's. Preston Hall Adviser Chuck Dennis c "Pets really aren't allowed unless you havt like a fish that can stay underwater for a minutes." So watch out. If that irresistible kitten hamster can't learn to breathe water, it's ar "I've heard a lot of people joke about geti the rules by buying their hamsters scuba g< Baker Hall Adviser Page Latham. WITH OR without scuba gear, cutenes win out over regulations. As a result, themselves becoming the owners of illegal Enter the world of "Dino's Den." All t today is an average door leading into an a\ ruum. dui a yciti agu, mis wa? mc uuiuau three-fourth-inch chameleon named ? th; Dino. Dino's former owner reminisces: "Dino came to me out of the clear blu< walking in front of my dorm, and my frie on the wall under an alley lamp." "So I said, 'There's a green lizard on t "WE NEEDED a mascot for the hall sc house for him in a cardboard box and Den' on the door." main nrnhlpm with kppnino the tinv ed out to be keeping track of him. This difl Dino's disappearance during an inspectio "We put his box in the closet to hide h inspectors. When we took the box out af mysteriously gone ? vanished into this ai had never existed." However, the den didn't have long to r ) i-/\ n ti ir /%/ tun inc. ut | OFF-CAMPL i Southern a temporar located cm the Ruj i 8:30 a.n Mond August 22 ifju Of m c the inside )lina Com:s airguns, it kinds of . ommented, : something ? - ? ?: ?: ? u ^.- .......o..^.! r->o? I leasi IOllr gaming anumci unusual hvi squirrel. i, puppy or "I WAS walking near the 1 1 illegal pet. small squirrel. I've had other ting around too, as pets at home, so. I took jar," added him. The strange thing is that wl he jumped on my shoulder. He trained or anything." ;s can often "He has animal magnetism," many find "I named him 'Nix' after S pets. found him the night of her cai hat remains rambling around not knowing v /erage dorm n of a 5 and BAKER HALL Adviser Pag at'* ight ? "What is done with the pet is u the person. We don't confiscate e sky. I was agine us ending up with 20 pupj :nd saw him There is an alternative to livi choose a legal pet. Unblinking, he wall."' the only pets that thrive in wa Page's desktop, two 1 and a t we set up a Water Frogs do underwater g put 'Dino's glass of their "froggie condo." What happens to students eat reptile turn- creatures sharing their living sp; ficulty led to quired to get the pets out of the n. Preston Residence Hall Directo 44I haven't come across anytl im from the did I would ask that ther persor $ain, he was room. If they did that, 1 probab ir ? as if he further." The most importan animal out of the room because waii before Yovanovich said. MVENIENCE OF IS STUDENTS... Bell will have y service center the 2nd floor of boais maiiqa JV7VY r ? vwsyv . i. - 5:00 p.m. ay - Friday 1 - Qpntpmhpr 7 W W V V# I r W i ?Southern Bell A BELLSOUTH Company By Laura Anne Booz< The absence of the > dormitories on camp incoming students, < "In about one we we will start placing who are on the wai director Linda Saad About 45 men anc cording to Saad. use HAS 6,577 assigned, she said. Ptoto by Ray Gronberg I In 1982, the Ulliv . . , . . me waut ntxiiiuiuii ? this time a baby . . . r that in three or four pH QooH coiH owers when I saw a "The three or fou squirrels flying ones just don>, need (hci off my shirt to catch Last year usc d len I took ofr my shirt |he schoo, whh 700 was too young to be . . "TWO YEARS a bnohpn the owner . . . June. 1 hat s the re tevie Nicks because I University Inn. We 'celled concert. I was another jncrease in v re to go. Money from the to "spruce up" ren e Lathan points out, usc president ip to the discretion of precedented thing f thePfs' Can you im~ That money usuall} Pies? ment. Negotiations ng with these hassles; It,s not unusual fc unexciting fish aren't when the tota, figl ter. For examDle. on ?. ? .. . ' wnai u is. quarter-,nehAfncan A of jn ymnastics behind the dorms estimated h , ing some of the bi lgh' ""J unwarranted Hampton Hotel wi ace? Offenders are reir rooms, according to r Rich Yovanovich Holderman sai hmg like that yet. If I anything but housi 1 get the pet out of the miolion in the pot < ly wouldn t take it any renovations. We a t thing is getting the summer. . . the W can carry a disease, are ^igh priorities. blem with renovati ( " Renting. I The only wa n i F , Televisions and A $4< nnr\linn/->nc qIcA n/. cuow 111 p available discoui Advanced Furniture I t ill v^uiumuia. \ 5301 Trenholm Rd. (803) 787-8076 m shortaqe. I official says Br Wade Hampton Hotel and University Inn >us hasn't caused a shortage of rooms for i Residential Life Services official said, ek, when all the no-shows are confirmed, ; the approximately 1 (X) men and women ting list in the empty rooms," said RLS 1 25 women remain on the waiting lists, ac available spaces, all of which have been ersity bought University Inn and in 1979 Hotel. The housing direetors realized then years the extra dorms would not be needr years are up. The baby boom is over. We n (the dorms) anymore." ecided to sell the two dormitories, leaving fewer rooms. igo 1 had 800 women on the waiting list in ason we had the Wade Hampton and the don't anticipate that there's going to be demand for four or five years," she said. sale of Wade Hampton Hotel will be used laining campus housing. James Holderman said, "It's an unor us to reap the $3 million from the sale. ' in that type of sale reverts to the governover occupancy (are holding up the sale) >r a sale of that size to take longer ? and ire comes out, you'll be very pleased at eers contracted by the university to survey will lake $9 million of reconstruction to bri 1 <-1 a ?-? m <-v /-I rt I A ' 1 U a r r* 1 /A f t V-% a W 1 a r\ lliuiup up iu uaic. int aait ui nit want 11 only bring in $3 million. d, "It's against the law for us to use ng money to renovate. We'll have aout $4 sometime furing this year with which to do in do a lot; some this year, but a lot next omens' Quad, Preston, Maxcy, Thornwell We've got a nine or 10 million dollar proions through the whole university." I I 1 .y to ouy. j or Students Only A complete, three-room [age for less than $1.66 a day! ?ree Delivery! 0 value! (May not be used mjiin^tion with any other its. Validated ID required.) Trfc a i Jttentais ana oaies In Camden: 938 S. Broad St. (803* 432-3151 1