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/ JSouthhCaroIiniana*Library Horseshoe 1" Gctmecoc k Founded 1908 Volume 77, No. 19 University of South Carolina September 17, 1984 $9 million By Jeri Rowe Residential Life Services will receive $9 million from the board of trustees over a 10-year period to repair dorms. Leaking roofs and worn carpet have always given headaches, but with this extra income, RLS now can relieve many of the nagging problems. "It was never a case of neglect by the administration, but a lack of money in the past to repair these problems," Robert Denton, senior vicepresidentof Business and Finance, said. I Hh MONLY tor these repairs comes from the board's housing fund, which is financed by students' housing fees. "For the first time, we have set aside five percent of (student housing fees) that will go directly into dorm renovation," Denton said. Denton terms the 10-year drive as "preventive renovation," with an average of Professors' invention 3-D glasses thing of p By Linda Taylor Cumbersome red and blue 3-D viewing gia thing of the past two years ago with tl VISIDEP, a 3-D system invented by USC pro McLaurin, LeConte Cathey and Edwin Joik The major TV networks, movie produce tisers have since expressed interest in the VIS Jones said. "We have had hundreds of inquiries fc development. We have dealt in one phase 01 all the major networks, movie producers anc he said. AFTER RECEIVING some publicity, the CJM Associates and invited the university tc In return for helping CJM raise initial funds, the benefit of "having their name stuck ii university will share in the prestige of t Cat hey said. The first demonstration tapes appeared in Magazine," ABC, CBS and CNN news sho< "That's Incredible" and went international in Australia, China, Canada and Germany d The most recent showing was in Finland thi bo lar, tne demonstration tapes, which h scenes, an ally scene and a view into a house not resulted in sales of the system. "You can demonstrate it, but they have tr< it. A psychcologist viewing the tapes got u and stomped out. It was so against his tn couldn't admit that he saw it. The reason f appears to be it's so simple they can't bring believe it's really working," Cathey said. THE CONCEPTS behind the VISIDE depth enhancement came to Cathey, Jones as they discussed the transfer of informant and the case of a one-eyed machinist. "We had an urge to enhance the transfer to students. The major input function to sti If you don't believe that look at television, information put in through the eyes is mor< how can you do this together? "It just happened we were discussing all I happened to remember our machinist dow an eye early in his existence and when h something precisely in his machine shop w his head. That gave us a clue. He was inert' c I fund to aic $500,000 to be set aside annually for all the dorms. Linda Saad, director of housing, echoes Denton's idea and said the extra income will "upgrade the facilities which we're giving the students now. "NOW WE will not have to live off what it costs to run the building and come up by osmosis with the money to repair certain maintenance problems," she said. Saad said she hopes with this proposed hnHopf nHHitinn R1 ^ will hp nhlp to tnenH $1.5 million in the first year of the drive on visible trouble spots such as the Wade Hampton dormitory. She adds, however, that all the dorms on campus have some basic water or electric problems that will be repaired in the first year of the drive. "Every area has something wrong with it, no matter if it's Capstone or Preston. If I'm c:Au e Iriciu r All not I Bv Cal Harrison a The intramurals program .. . , is "getting .shafted," and , ' ~ * ' sti/de|hs*wfvt> fraWicipattr hVit^ will suffer because of the new H|2l|#pC engineering building, an inIliailCd tramurals official said. - Intramural socc e r , IrlSl lacrosse. Frisbee. and men's and women's rugby teams will not have a place to prac tice because USC administrasses became a tion decided to build the tie advent of Swearingen Center on Field lessors Porter F, now used for USC band .*s. . practice, according to Kathy rs and adver- Bunn Sito, assistant coorIDEP system, dinator of intramural/recreational sports. >r commercial another with Sito said she found out 1 advertisers," about two-and-a-half weeks ago that the engineering building would be built on group formed Field F instead of the SCL&G ? Ko ^ narmor and Southern Railway pro use received perty. 4,This is causing a i front " The great deal of conflict with our his invention. Programs," Silo said. SURVEYING WILL begin 1982 on PM after t^e fencc arouncj Field I ws, in 1983 on down, which means the ba with showings sports clubs will have to move uring 1982-83. ^ is summer. "(USC) paid an exorbitant iclude football t0 have drainage tiles and a f window, have around it. Now, less than six later, they'll be taking then 3uble believing think this was poor planning pset, stood up our pr0grams are already set lining that he encj t^e semester. or this anxiety "Four clubs had a difficult ' themselves to (^js pasl Sprjng semester be< construction on the field. Nov face the same situation and, as :P system for jt wm their competitio and McLaurin 3n to the brain <^jto ancj physical Educatic tor Dick Ferriter will be ot intormation together a proposal lor more idents is visual. fields to present to the faciliti The amount of jng office, she said. l* precise. . . so itiTtL' \T iiw.? II i^(ii i uun icivmiiv;> this junk when was no, doing their job. They 'n here. He lost ctj to fjntj alternatives for e wants to see grams," she said. nrk. he wienies c;.~ or., " ?-'w /) 11 U ^UIU I l IV. y (ii v v. v/ji r? i v* v. i asing his inlor- (lle praotice field near Willis lee "TV," page 4 Stadium, but it will mean r< I dormitory not careful, I'll have a situation where the newer dorms will be deteriorating as rapidly as the older ones," she said. "THE FIRST-YEAR improvements though, hinge on the Wade Hampton Hotel sale, which, selling at $2.9 million, represents a third of the stated allocations, Saad said. Denton said this ic a rnnrern hut thf? nnr chase is already under contract with a private developer. "Since an agreement has been reached, this extra income will cover the needed maintenance costs in the first year in which the students will see their money being put to work immediately," he said. Saad agrees such a boost will reinforce RLS's main purpose of "providing the services to the stndents and mnU imnnrtanilv ? ? to keep (housing) costs down at the same time." i - i n nappy wun aw* * s ' u'wn*#*1' _ui,Mi irrr^iwim "w -* -*-< -'"-'''4^'v,-pl I ' ! |'i?| \ 5JJ JLjBk* ?i|jl J J Kfi8 w> | Bni Mh^I Mil ni I ' *> _^h^k*$ -<-w m ] ' ' : 'JjUk P Yfc HI wkl jjppj f^ jSchool Georgia Photo by Reggie Ross N.C. State Formation on Field F UNC-Chapei i USC band members mill Vermcmt around on the future foundation of the new engineering center. *Thesc schools VOMI Nov. 1, and transportation problems. 7 is torn When she started working with md and tramurals in 1980, USC had seven to Field tramural fields, Sito said. Now tl are four. amount Two were used for constructor ence put the Bubble, and the other was givei months the soccer team. l out. 1 because ONE OF the remaining fields, F until the E, is unusable because it is unlevel not regulation size. Cl?/\ rrt?/4 rkft rnrt/atmrl At^Ar piuuiciu ouu aaiu DUI V/IUVI jvh< cause of and found that USC had the sma v, they'll number of intramural fields for its a ii.Miii, u^iu pupuiauuu. n," Sito She said USC should have 7 to 1 more intramural fields. >n Direc- "USC has almost nine full mo putting of outdoor activities because practice weather is so nice. Indiana Unive es plann- has maybe seven months, and loo their number of fields compare* ours," she said. planning iust fail- SHK SAID the band and our pro- physical education classes will rev priority over the intramural teams ing using ing November. tms-Hriee I i S C hand direct o r .1 a mtal fees Copenhavcr said he thinks the un repairs solving maintenance problems has always been an RLS main priority, but i rv :ii: i : me i>y reiiaoimaiiuu project mciiin from a visit .wo years ago by investigators from the Commission on Higher Lducation who were examining all the higher education facilities in the state, Saad said. "The investigators checked the roofs, the bathrooms and even the blinds and found that we didn"; meet certain structural specifications." she said. They issued a report stating it would take $9 million to repair all of USC's maintenance problems, which to some, may seem to be an mconc-:ivaDie sum, out baaa tninKs otherwise. "We can do it. With a year-by-year analysis, RLS, along with student help, can hopefully find where the weaknesses are, the many ways to trim costs and where to spend and save money," she said. iaringen Center pottom of ihc list as far as intramural fields go. Student Population Number of Fields I 24.(M)0 S B 10. (KK) 6* 1] have indoor intramural fields. b\ sity values the Carolina Band, and in- USC will see that the band is taken in- care of. He said he had heard USC lere would develop more practice fields, possibly near Bates West, i of But Sito said the new fields are only n to hearsay. The campus police station and their n?rLi,I^wtc ..rill o!c/"\ Ka itcArl f t\r thp \JCkl IW1I? IUU VT HI UIJV UV UJVU I VI HIV ield new center, she said. and cols Inside ,lesl Classified 15 stu~ Dateline 2 n Entertainment 8 Features 7 nths Opinion 6 our Sports 12 rsity Mall occupants chosen. Eight k at businesses have agreed to more in:1 to to spaces in the Russell House mall. 3 The movie alternative.The Nickelo . e (lion was started by and is managed :eive |)V [TSC graduates 8 durWinning Rugby. I'SC's Rugby team mes defeated Old Gray 14-3 Saturday. 12 iver- -_~J