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Pets Kitty can't live on cami but some do anyway By Linda Taylor It seems like a lot of things will never see i of a USC dorm room. The 1984-85 Caroli munity Student Policy Manual includes itiivi uvYavto, wuitiutuj aim iiivjsi pets in its list of no-no's. Preston Hall Adviser Chuck Dennis coi "Pets really aren't allowed unless you have s like a fish that can stay underwater for at 1 minutes." So watch out. If that irresistible kitten, hamster can t learn to breathe water, it s an 1 "I've heard a lot of people joke about gettir the rules by buying their hamsters scuba geai Baker Hall Adviser Page Latham. WITH OR without scuba gear, cuteness win out over regulations. As a result, n themselves becoming the owners of illegal p Enter the world of "Dino's Den." All th? today is an average door leading into an avei room. But a year ago, this was the domain < three-fourth-inch chameleon named ? that Dino. Dino's former owner reminisces: "Dino came to mc out of the clear blue ? walking in front of my dorm, and my frien< on the wall under an alley lamp." "So I said, 'There's a green lizard on the "WE NEEDED a mascot for the hall so v house for him in a cardboard box and pi Den' on the door." The main problem with keeping the tiny re ed out to be keeping track of him. This diffic Dino's disappearance during an inspection. "We put his box in the closet to hide hin inspectors. When we took the box out aca mysteriously gone ? vanished into this air had never existed." However, the den didn't have long to v I j 1 ; FOR THE CO ! OFF-CAMPU: f Southern I a temporary located on t the Rus ! 8:30 a.m Monds August 22 i I '5 - v JM i fi Wilri 'li ^ '? 11 ' m i^liralgl <^^nGsBn^G3iHBMi the inside na Comairguns, omething least four gaining another unusual pet ? t squirrel. puppy or "I WAS walking near the Towi llegal pet. small squirrel. I've had other squ lg around too, as pets at home, so. I took off ?? _ J J _-i L:? xi * ? :? ?un? ...uAM r, auueu iiuu. i in* mi angc uung is uim whch he jumped on my shoulder. He wa trained or anything." can often "He has animal magnetism," lai lany find "I named him 'Nix' after Stevi< iets. found him the night of her cancell it remains rambling around not knowing whei rage dorm 3f a 5 and BAKER HALL Adviser Page L 'a ' 4 \X/ hot C r\ ?"\ a uritU r*at ir nr\ t / 5 I lglll Iiai 13 uuuv Willi 111^, 13 U?J 1A the person. We don't confiscate the ?ky. I was agine us ending up with 20 puppies i saw him There is an alternative to living 1 choose a legal pet. Unblinking, une ; wall.'" the only pets that thrive in water. Page's desktop, two 1 and a quj ve set up a Water Frogs do underwater gymr it 'Dino's glass of their "froggie condo." What happens to students caught :ptile turn- creatures sharing their living space"] :ulty led to quired to get the pets out of their rc Preston Residence Hall Director Ri "1 haven't come across anything i from the did I would ask that ther person gei in, he was room. If they did that, 1 probably w ? as if he further." The most important th animal out of the room because it c /ait before Yovanovich said. } NVENIENCE OF S STUDENTS... Bell will have service center I t he 2nd floor of sell House. . - 5:00 p.m. ly - Friday - September 7 frt\ Cm itham Roll llkfpiy WVUU IV! D W\ria A BELLSOUTH Company No root housing By Laura Anne Booze The absence of the \ llMiB dormitories on camp incoming students, a "In about one \ve< we start P'acin8 who are on the wait ^fljlS director Linda Saad ^,'Mj About 45 men and I cording to Saad. IF jj use HAS 6,577 mmm assigned, she said. Photo by Ray Grooberg I In 1982, the univ< , . i . . uiv. naut i laiuuiuu his time a baby . . . . \ that in three or four ed. Saad said. :rs when I saw a "The three or fou, rrels, flying ones jusl don't need then my shirt to catch Las, usc d< took off my shirt lhe schoo, with 700 5 too young to be , . , "TWO YEARS a, ghed the owner. . June That,s the re? ' Nicks because University Inn. We ed concert. I was another jncrease in ( e to RO' Money from the s to "spruce up" rem athan points out, USC President the discretion of precedented thing fc pets. Can you im- That money usually , ment. Negotiations vith these hassles; [t>s not unusuai fG xciting fish aren t when the total figu For example, on what jt js ? irter-inch African A groUp of engin( astics behind the dorms estimated it v ing some of the bu with unwarranted Hampton Hotel wil Offenders are renins. according to CJ) Yovanovich. Holderman saic like that yet. If I anything but housir the pet out of the miolion in the pot s ouldn t take it any renovations. We ca ing is getting the summer. . . the Wc an carry a disease, are high priorities. blem with renovati< Renting. The only wa; , Televisions and A $4C appliances also in co available discoun Advanced Furniture In Columbia: 5301 Trenholm Rd. (803) 787-8076 n shortage, I official says IT Vade Hampton Hotel and University Inn us hasn't caused a shortage of rooms for Residential Life Services official said. " - ? CI 1 ;k, wnen an me no-snows arc coniirmeu, the approximately 1 (X) men and women :ing list in the empty rooms," said RLS 25 women remain on the waiting lists, aeavailable spaces, all of which have been ;rsity bought University Inn and in 1979 Hotel. The housing directors realized then years the extra dorms would not be ncedr years are up. The baby boom is over. We i (the dorms) anymore." :cided to sell the two dormitories, leaving fewer rooms. go I had 800 women on the waiting list in ison we had the Wade Hampton and the don't anticipate that there's going to be demand for four or five years," she said, ale of Wade Hampton Hotel will be used aining campus housing. James Holderman said, ''It's an un>r 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 re comes out, you'll be very pleased at iers contracted by the university to survey k'ill take $9 million of reconstruction to br ildings up to date. The sale of the Wade I only bring in $3 million. i, "It's against the law for us to use ig money to renovate. We'll have aout $4 ometime furing this year with which to do n do a lot; some this year, but a lot next >mens' Quad, Preston, Maxcy, Thornwell We've got a nine or 10 million dollar procms through the whole university." y to buy. ?r Students Only A r?rkmr*li3>t<3 ffor^i^-rnrvm A X V/\7 i 1 4J/iV VV y V* 1A V V/ < vr w ? a ? age for less than $1.66 a day! ^ree Delivery! ) value! (May not be used nju nation with any other its. Validated ID required.) Rentals and Sales In Camden: 938 S. Broad St. (803) 432-3151