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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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n shortage,
I official says
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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."
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