The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, August 31, 1984, Page Page 3, Image 4
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
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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
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the 2nd floor of
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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
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Renting.
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Advanced Furniture
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\ 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."
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