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t joHWHerrtNor ? UNIVERSITY* OP S.Q-. AROHIVE3~"^ ; McKISSICK MUSEUMS """ < CAMPUS v Gamecock Founded 1908 Volume 77, No. 38 University of South Carolina October 31, 1984 _ RHA to decii By Annette Ellard Whether students will have to buy t their own telephones next year is a 1 question being raised by the Residence i Hall Association about the new $4.5 t million phone system being installed at c use. The RHA met with Dennis Pruitt, dean of students and vice president for I student affairs, Elizabeth Langley, I director of communications, and Jim i McMahon, director of resident student development and off-campus student services Monday night to discuss the pros and cons of available options in local service. ' ? < The RHA is looking for student input before preparing a recommendation to President James Holderman. "We won't rush into it," Pruitt said, "but our game plan would be to have a recommendation to the president before the end of the semester." UNDER THE new system, the university win maintain its own telephone lines. However, two options exist concerning local service. First, the university could continue charging students for both line service and the phone set, which are presently included in student housing fees. The second option is charging students for line service, but requiring them to buy their own phones. ^ v^/T'y; ? >4 | MEf>y:t$ W^UnMr $T?. ir Gruesome twosome A ghoulish family from the Carolina Cares' h to their horrifying home. The house will be opi pages 9 and 13. de dorm pho One drawback of the second plan is hat phones bought by students would h lave to meet university standards to be p ised in the dorms. A quality phone c; hat would meet these standards would h :ost about $40, Pruitt said. r< "Non-compliance here could mean big bucks," he said, explaining that si low-quality phones could damage the st university's equipment. This would r: mean a charge to the student. r? a ALSO, A danger to the new system si would be illegal extension phones. u Although over 100 illegal extensions exist on campus now, Langley said, there's little risk of causing detectable d problems. a However, with the new system there tl is a 75 to 90 percent chance of "blow- L ing a circuit pack," which six to eight b lines are connected to. This would n mean at least an $850 replacement cost s to the violators. c P As of last Wednesday, any phone damaged more than is attributable to c normal wear and tear will be billed to s students, Langley said. In the past, F when it was up to the telephone com- c pany, this has not been enforced, she said. However, it will be for the rest of t this school year and will continue if 1 students are not required to buy their I own phones. 1 Photo by Jsnoiftr launted House at Dutch Square Mall entertains v 3n until 9 p.m. tonight. See other Halloween st nes' fate The ?? as installed, will use touch-tone ( hones and may eventually provide all-waiting, personal computer ookups and other options in the jsidence halls, Langley said. LANGLE\ ALSO said the system I . lould not mean higher costs to udents. "The only time dorm phone ates will go up is when Southern Bell ates go up. Students are charged exctly what it costs (the university)," (ie said. "The cheaper I can get it for L s,...the better. j' Although provisions for longistance service are still up in the air, n individual billing system similar to I PT AVI a Ml 1 1 1 rie present o i /mn sysiem win oe usea, .angley said. She added that the pro- ' dem of people using false STAN lumbers would be helped by the new . ystem, because it will make a record ( ?f what calls are made from what hones. "This is the start of many, many onversations on this topic," Pruitt aid, explaining that the meeting with IHA was not to make a quick lecision. | To help weigh all the possibilities >efore making a recommendation to rlolderman, RHA plans to do a camDuswide survey to find out which options students prefer. I Carolina to gain s| By Jeri Rowe I USC may buy Florence C. Bensi tary School by 1986 to renovate for "future university uses" sa official. David Rinker, vice president f< planning, said he sees the proper advantageous investment because fer needed space for several of sity's growing departments. "The school is at a prime local university because, with the two t hp c^hnnl 1C nn it hoc cinniTi^on I can be used for parking or eventui intramural field," he said. LOCATED ON Whaley Sti Bates House dorm, the three-st will be bought from the Carolin and Development Foundation million in capita! improveme Rinker said. He added that the bonds are : State Treasury to banks or other groups as stock. The bonds, however, will be si state taxes and not by tuition or h< Rinker said. USC began leasing the school give immediate space to the department after a fire damage / /? College. ^ J SINCE 1979, however, two of I sity's fastest growing programs, / Affiliated Facilities and the Collej ......" * Health, have moved into the WRR Rinker said. These two departments have ca af ? School their home the past five ye red-bricked building does not res< department buildings on campt Gambrell Hall or the Close-Hipp Woo,8n Built in 1954, the building 1 isitors elementary school student*; hut closed in 1976 because of deelin or,0S' enrollment, said J.W. Witherspo ecutive director of pupil pe Richland District One. fhose Carolina nay arise agai Sy Ann Farmer All Hallows' Eve is tonight, an< horseshoe or in Wade Hampton do ake any moonlit strolls around cam There may be ghosts at USC. Consider this: two years ago ui a t ege apartment, residents told $0me oice they didn't recognize j^lpeir a .> THE DORM, on >uilding on the oi igina^ftinptis. Mj lent who had a class on third floor di t while after his death, students said I he classroom. Next door at Harper College* a y tppears, said former USC student C Gay researched gihosis when eporter in the late 7^v ttecause afcfg lay before his story wpfctO tutl, it w Gay said a security g*l*r<jt tb# 3 rhe night-duty guard v^^going Jt^i ights that had been left o||*vhen ^|s; ilood. Jlk W "I KILLED them, t killed them ;aid. While going through some old ^aroliniana Library, where Gay nc found an account of a Southern belk Union soldiers at Harper College, housed troops in Horseshoe build War. The account said she was hanged There may be as many as four may buy j pace for g Witherspoon, wh< on Elemcn- first principal, said the facility leased it to the unive lid a USC by Carolina R&D F university trustees or facilities resources for USC. ty being an e it will of- EVEN THOUGH the univer- viding the two de] space, both departn ;ion for the they have had troul acres that elementary school t value that facility. illy another Edward Oswald, vironmental Health said they have ha< reet beside school's cafeteria :ory school classrooms into rese a Research Oswald said his de for $1.3 harmful agents in bol nt bonds, or workplace, has no for teaching purpose sold by the "How do you in investment art?' Bv research." laboratories he h ipported by functional." ousing fees, in 1978 to In psychology , d Barnwell Classified Dateline Entertainment the univer- Features ... university vpmiwn ?e of Public Sports ; building, Rockne rides aga lied Rencnn around a lot thes ars, but the memorial bust do imble other Pseudo-Springsti us such as the Beaver Browi Buildings. pared to Bruc loused 4()0 Southside Johnnj the school stand on its own. ino ctntlnni . ?? Rising fast. The on Jr., ex- bing in the polls rsonncl of number five. . i spirits in tonight d if you live on the rm, or if you plan to pus, beware. hird-floor Elliott Colfriends they heard a partment. e, was a classroom jj|nd has it that a stlied in an accident . For ouiig lady sometimes harles fiav I*? J V r he was a Gamecock ; news story broke the published. Wiling lady at Harper. tale||fc^n off some aw tnvjered in all," she supposedly papers at the South >w works, he said he ; who had killed seven The Union army had ings during the Civil the next day. other ghosts on the See "Ghosts," page 3. school rowth :> was also the school's Richland District One rsity until it was bought oundation, a group of that seek funds and thp ?r'hr?r*l Ii:k hppn iirn. partments with needed lent chairmen have said blc converting the 1954 into a college research chairman of the F.ni Sciences department, :\ to convert both the t and several small arch laboratories. nnrtm#>nf \i/hirh rv\mhntc th a person's environment it had adequate lab space ;s until 1981. iprove the 'state-of-thehe said, adding that the ias now are "barely See "Benson," page 7 side 19 9 I 12 11 10 15 in. Knute Rockne gets e (lays, or at least his es 8 T ,.l ?... i ecu. v^tinci ty aim n Band are often come Springsteen and But their music can 12 Gamecocks keep climi. This week, they're ' 15