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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'
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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
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Bv Cal Harrison
a The intramurals program
.. . , is "getting .shafted," and ,
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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.
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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.
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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
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to keep (housing) costs down at the same
time."
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USC band members mill Vermcmt
around on the future foundation
of the new engineering
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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.
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because ONE OF the remaining fields, F
until the E, is unusable because it is unlevel
not regulation size.
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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
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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
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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.
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ield new center, she said.
and cols
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,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.
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. e (lion was started by and is managed
:eive |)V [TSC graduates 8
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Rugby. I'SC's Rugby team
mes defeated Old Gray 14-3 Saturday. 12
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