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Volume 77, No. 17 . University of South Carolina September 12, 1984
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By Ann Farmer
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity won't find out
until December if they'll be allowed to keep
their 804 Whaley St. house, and until then
they are on a city-imposed probation.
The house is in an area zoned single-family
residential, and the fraternity must get
special permission from the Columbia Zoning
Board of Adjustments to rent the house.
The PiKAs have lived there since 1975, but
recent complaints from neighborhood
residents may mean their request will be
denied this year.
The fraternity appealed their case before
the zoning board yesterday, but the board
approved the request only until December,
whea they will make a final decision.
FRATERNITY PRESIDENT Neil
Sanders said the board postponed the decision
because members didn't want to make
the fraternity move out in mid-semester.
Also, the group will have time to improve
relations with neighbors.
At least three neighbors told the board
they didn't want the fraternity to stay,
among them Larry and Alma Gates. The
Oates were asked alter the meeting what
complaints they had, and they said they had
no comment.
Area resident Marie Watson, who spoke at
an Aug. 15 board meeting, said the yard was
a mess and she could hear music during parties,
although her home was a few blocks
from the PiKA house.
"1 don't know what the inside of the house
looks like, but the outside is pretty bad,"
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AT THAT meeting Watson did not recomi
mend closing the house, however.
"Have this as kind of a probation period
, and see if they can clean up their act," she
said.
I She suggested the board review the case
every year, as it had originally. The board
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The board postponed making a decison ai
the Aug. 15 meeting because four of its sever
members were absent, and those four had ap
proved the fraternity's special request at it?
last hearing.
But board chairman Edgar Morris said a
the time, "If I had to vote right now, I'd vot<
no." Morris disqualified himself from voting
at yesterday's meeting.
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THE FRATERNITY'S request was ap- g
proved until December under the original J
conditions imposed in 1975, which include P
restrictions on parking in the backyard and ||
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Katherine Hutchinson of the city zoning |g
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Sanders, who does not live at the house, ||
said he thought feelings from the past eight gi
years had come to a head. He said the police
had pnly come to the house once in the past
two'years, and some of the noise blamed on
fraternity members was not their fault.
"Someone woke up at 2 or 3 a.m. because
of squealing tires and said it was us. They
couldn't know that. There are trucks going
through there all night ? and trains. I don't
even live there because it's so noisy," he said.
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Sanders' story. He said all the neighbors
have his phone number and were told to call
him anytime if there was a problem, and he's
never gotten a call.
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party, but the fraternity always cleans it up
that day, Sanders said.
As for the condition of the house, Sanders
said the fraternity had asked neighbors to
help them pressure the landlord into improving
it, because the fraternity couldn't afford
to.
The PiKAs are trying to renovate inside
the house, one room at a time, and are buy'
ing curtains, he said.
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improvements.
"THEY'RE PUTTING forth more effort
taking care of the grass, but the structure is
the landlord's responsibility," Loftis said.
Despite these complaints, Sanders said
most residents like the fraternity. The group
meets with neighbors, most of whom are
I elderly, every three months. Between
. meetings a committee visits the neighbors to
t see if they need anything. |
i The fraternity keeps the grass cut for one I
sick elderly man, and has cleaned yards and "
> moved furniture for other area residents, Sanders
said. ?
t Although he said most residents like the
; fraternity, only one neighbor went to the s
? meeting in support. Sanders said the rest are
not outspoken or aren't able to get out.
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ment application rate increase;
dent senator who plans to pet it i
Quadrangle said it is a case of
taxation for all students who
"A few years ago you didn't
smi Pay any fee to participate
$ in'f$bm^ sports," Ricchi said. 'Two ye
you wou'd Pay $10 at the begii
the season, and if you didn'i
S3 8 " y?u wou'd 8et your money ba
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can't even gel it back. So, whai
a ?h,; , v, be a free service provided
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sports because the Student f
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IcBryde instead of individual fees.
double "Last year we asked for a certain t
plan to amount of money tor our budget,"
Bruce Butrym, intramural department
have to director, said. "When the finance
in any committee showed me the amount of
:ars ago money they were going to give me our
ining of figures didn't match."
t forfeit Butrym said his figures were not exck.
act, but the Finance Committee's
and you totals were aooui jiu.uuu less man ine
t used to ones he'd come up with.
for the "They wanted the revenue, and I
noney." had three choices," he said, and they
?es that were:
iver any drop some sports,
lartment raise the entry fees on team sports, or
put an entry fee on individual sports.
>n situa- "I don't want Bruce to have to cut
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play in- can cut some of the fat out of his
e money budget. He is just going to have to cut
back in certain areas. Businesses do it
increas- all the time," Ricchi said.
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itte Friday as she enjoys an end of the
imural fees
raternily participated in all the inramural
sports it would cost the
raternity $1,980.
"I think the intramural department
las just out-priced themselves," Richi
said. "It would cost me $47.50 if I
vanted to play every sport.
"I just want to do what's best for
he students."
Inside
Classified 15
Dateline 2
Entertainment 12
Features 7
Opinion 6
. Sports 8
Black and White. Differences in
race can complicate adjusting to
roommates. ..' 3
Super Soccer. USC's soccer team
facpR a strono- I JNC-Oharlot.t.f*
squad tomorrow at the Graveyard.
8
Witches* brew. "The Crucible,"
set in colonial Salem. Mass., opens
the theatre department season. 12
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