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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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