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Volume 77, No. 14 University of South Carolina September 5, 1984
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Thursday afternoon band practices ai
Monday night intramural football games <
Field F will be a thing of the past by 19
when the John E. Swearingen Center f
Engineering will be erected on the \aca
area next to the USC police station.
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planned to be built on property owned
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company a
Southern Railway between Main a
Assembly streets, but a cost discrepancy b
ween the university and the two compan
influenced the university to look for a loi
tion elsewhere.
"It was the university's hope a
understanding that the property would
niven to us with an arrangement that the c<
wouki be relatively low. (SC'E&G a
Southern Railway) did not want to make tl
large a commitment to the university, whi
caused us to look at other alternatives," s?
David Rinker, system vice president I
Facilities Planning.
The alternative found was prope
already owned by the university that v
located on the corner of Sumter and Whi
streets behind the computer center compl
Rinker said the only disadvantages of
decision would be finding both the band a
intramural program another practice ficlc
"The aim is to cet the band to oractice
Field A and make another intramural fielc
the near future," he said.
The decision was made after a recomm
dation from USC President James Hold
man to the building and grounds commit
and the board of trustees. An investigat
was begun to find property to build
Swearingen Center on another location a
lower cost.
The relocation had nothing to do w
Green's discount beverage store locati
which would have been situated across
street from the nronosed site, Rinker sai<
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The relocation has caused a three- or fc
months delay in construction that '
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ling construction
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originally scheduled for late June or July.
nd "The university suspects that constructor
will get underway late this fall with a ground
86 breaking ceremony to hopefully take place it
or November," Rinkcr said.
mt The 250,000-square-foot building will tak<
16 to 18 months to build. It will be accessibl*
lly to students by 1986. The complex will bi
by funded by individuals from private corpora
nd tions outside the state. Swearingen, a 193!
nd graduate of the USC College of Engineering
et- retired chairman of the board of Standan
ies Oil Co. of Indiana and the facility'
;a- namesake, has joined Holderman ii
m-Mierntinti nrivate sunnort for the engineer
nd ing facility.
be The old engineering building, Sumwal
3st College, located at Sumter and Green
nd streets, will be used by the College of Scienc
mt and Mathematics to solve the space needs o
ch that department, Rinker said,
lid The center will also nearly double th
for number of students in the undergraduate ani
graduate program. By the early 1990>
rty undergraduate enrollment is expected t
/as gro\s from 1,400 to 3,000 students. Graduat
eat enrollment is anticipated to increase fror
ex. 4uu to as many as i stuuenis.
the "South Carolina produces a small numb<
ind of engineers in respect to the population. Tt
i. university needs to provide facilities to trai
on engineers instead of having them drawn ou
1 in of-state," Rinker said.
By providing additional space and stat
en- of-the-art laboratories and technology, tl
ler- university will not only draw studentsintotl
tee program but lure industries into the stat
ion David Waugh, dean of USC College <
the Engineering, said the industrial power of tl
it a center is already evident.
"We met with officials from
ith Northeastern-based computer company wf
on, said the center will be a major factor in the
the decision whether to locate facilities in Soul
i. Carolina. They see the center as a commi
>ur- ment by the university to qualify education,
was Waugh said.
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t. A backhoe sits idle on a pile of dirt on the Women's Qu
" will not be finished until later this fall. See related st
touse mall compk
university publisher
nent mall, due to open Sept. 1, in The selective pre
potential merchants are now being inflate their prices,
s, University Bookstore director. chants," Wertz sai
:d . . . no one is firmly commitat
eight interviews with merchants "WE'RE CiOIN
chants down there,
e names of the merchants, but said A record store,
i interested in the project. shops and several c
project, said Wertanned
to use the basement for a A dining facility
i the plan because of high develop- food service,
interest, said Viee F^resident for
/ertz. Since then, the basement has
itial home for career planning and ?
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self to too many things because it's Classified . . .
rtz. "It you do offices, quite frank- Dateline . . . .
awful lot of money." Kritertaininen
all evolved from the success of the Features . . . .
' House, and the proposal received Opinion
it this summer. Sports
mainly removing stored textbooks.
g electrical conduits, began in early Human develop
Counseling and
his job
J LI) be completed by the end of the
project has cost USC $300,000, but Best ever. The
years. in^ called the b
hants and services to be leased was
int surveys and community input. Super soccer. S
granted interviews are those who upset <>l Ith-rai
y selective process. soccer victories
in June listed the areas considered
>mmunity. At the end of June, the _____________
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ad. Renovations begun in the summer of 1983
ory on page 3.
Jtion delayed
d specifications lor merchants.
>cess helped procure stores that "wouldn't
" and "flushed out a lot of would-be merto
end up with a good group of merhe
said.
travel agency, dry cleaner, gift and flower
loihing stores have expressed interest in the
will be provided by Saga, the university's
See "Mall," page 6.
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mcnt. Donald Swanson. director of I SC's
Human Development Center, talks about
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Vienna Choir Hoys will open w hat's l?eest-ever
CSC Cultural Series 10
occer coach Mark Berson calls Saturday's
iked Connefticut one of I SC's greatest
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