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I "i 7 I Former USC football players try I WW^fl' ' - 11 .out for the p pa9e 6 ' 1 The Gamecock Founded 1908 ; Wednesday Volume 78, No. 5 University of South Carolina July 10, 1985 Studen Former res nno+olnin n IIUO lUIVjlU o building's ( By Yvattt Latorre Assistant news editor Former residents of the ^ nostalgic as final preparation rtruMiirA Ill UVIUI V "When they blow it up I' ^ Edward Beyer, a former f hotel, said. Beyer was placed in the he However, Beyer admits, "I place where 1 wanted to live WHEN BEYER first appli the hopeful students trying most of the vacancies were Housing eventually Rave Wade Hampton Hotel, Roo Beyer was to remain in th day, the very last day anyb to there" in spring 1984. ^ "It was almost like living of the Carolina community one of the few dorms whcr people who lived there. "THERE WAS a real ser to know people by sight. Yo the hotel. If you didn't, the During his stay in the hoti fpront rnnmc hi it hp founrA/ ? VI VIII I VWIII fUl IIV IHTVI for two years before the ho The room had a panoram and West Columbia. Beyer, who describes hir junkie", would sit in his eig thunderstorms with his rooi r>Mr i rnuMnnM n?. ni * ulj from West Columbia. "On part of the hotel could see Soon after, the hotel bla< thunderstorm Beyer watche Jef LaFrance, the hotel frr?m SpntcmKAr 1081 tr\ Ma memories. "The first week 1 move book, The Shining^' LaFra remembered the novel's hai balloons, streamers and sk< AS HALI. director, he w assigned dorm before an; arrive. One night, LaFrance sa inougnt was an empty i a elevator," he said. "It scai of me. It had balloons and LaFrance later found on the hotel's ballroom. Wade hampton living w lite, Beyer said. THE "LEFT-OVER hoi and he especially admired ceramic lamps (and) the ch be sat on. We'd be breakin back together again." Students Til IiQUIC I V By Susan Paint News editor USC's Cable Conneci student-operated cable ser it premiered its weekly cat By arrangement with C group will air a program 1 on Channel 4. The first show is "a pre of material we shot last si group coordinator. The program, which wi shows scenes of the 1985 ana Mrs. usl, Moayouiic swimming conference anc meetings. Also included are interv of Mothers Against Drun Student Life Inc. The group's programr government coverage, put programming, Gore said. "Columbia City Coun HH staple of the program," G ^ fall we hope to branch 01 (s, Colur idents m. ml iooui r i lemise y /ade Hampton Hotel feel Qmr s arc made to implode the " J >. L m going to get a brick," * our-year resident of the ik is f 1 itel purely by coincidence. | fj. didn't know of any other ied to USC. he was amonc ^ to get a dorm room after 28SW filled. him a room assignment: m 527. le hotel "until graduation ody was supposed to live off-campus but still part Beyer said. "We were gg?j e you could recognize the ise of community. We got u said hello to everyone in y didn't live there." el, Beyer lived in three difi room 830, where he lived ?9& tel was closed. gig|L ic view of the State House I nself as a "thunderstorm I ;hth-floor room and watch H mmate. f ^er spotted one that came Hj ly the people living in that it," he said. , eked out as a result of the d approaching. I's residence hall director iy 1983, also has some fond d in, I had just read the ince said, and he especially ~ jnted room festooned with fcVI :letons. Old as obligated to arrive at his , O y 01 tne residents would """ id, he arrived to what he '?rn hotel. "1 summoned the kind red the living daylights out P'c ' I streamers." it a party had been held in , ^ hot< 'as unlike the usual dorm B dori the fnrnitvisac nniniip Mil k V I I Ul IIUUI V *? H.J UlllVjUV | 1TIC1I "the tacky, bright orange airs that were not meant to mat ig them and screwing them alwj the debut ~~ channel tion became the first vice in the country when ue program July 4. Columbia Cable TV, the rhursdays from 6-8 p.m. tview of this fall's lineup )ring," said Doug Gore, fl r n n r? ( <t/l ' I * U i i yt r> ? i ii uv, nin.cuiu liiuisuuy, Spring Concert, the Mr. iing Contest, the Metro fftfr 1 Columbia city council lews witn representatives k Driving and Columbia ning will include local >lic access and university cil meetings will be the ore said. "Starting in the it, doing more university jJgj S?e "Channel/' page 2 M ibians pre .SVAVf*,V,\VA*,'Ai ^g^B.xWV. .. VA. VTy>v?'.sv.-.'?- . vVv.i . - tm^m * ' HS ihiiii -' r'- v Mk in the kitchen sink smKs irom me waae nampion noiei pile up < nc thing Beyer found challenging was storage space under the bed." There wasn't much room," said Chuc ner hall advisor on the hotel's 12th fl I 1 1 irnKO/1 c#nff Arr%A/iinttii ?-* ??I^ i \ji ia^vivu .nui i y va|Ji>viaiiy m mi* had to split it." imply stated, "living in the hotel was lik ;1," Beyer said. KYKR CALLS the hotel the only gen m USC has had. "It was not as though hall was girls and the other end guys es and females were intermingled on e< A ?-??? ?L. L ~1l it - - iiic nan mere was a gin wno w h. She helped me out," he said. " lys borrow stuff. The girls always had guys always had the corkscrews." . jjjg- - : " - pare for I /-j .? w. V" A ' v. A V A \ is demolition crews clear the building in p "where to After tirst moving why the windows :k Shifflet, restricters. When he f oor. "You out. .Twopeo- "The first year the I meone put a speaker < and missed a senator I c living in a PERHAPS THE n remembers while livi prankster poured som luine co-ed conditioning one end of remedied the problen he said, fume," Beyer said, ich floor. Beyer recalls that " as good at sinenea "kc a lurkisr You could a'so remembers the irons; "would be rented out -: W ' B V 7' mBLM* hotel's im| f4c*| fl Ho <r V I fcs| mn ' i I 9 ma i ^ews pi i r\ "IF ' H^\ L ?jx Gwinn - I . * schedul u |y Gwir V I: f 1 it we'r ^ questio Hi (? Hi - si Bl B||jj2^|^^^^^B^H?_Assem wnctn< BMB^Br will be Ray Gronberg/The Gamecock ^ay' 1 buildi reparation for its implosion. ^Los'n iu pei in, Beyer remembers wondering Altl were fastened with window millio inally asked someone, he found amou Paul ' lotel was opened (as a dorm) so- "Tl an the window. The speaker fell it was jy four or five feet," Beyer said. in a 1< riost memorable moment Beyer tion,' ng in the hotel is the time a pertie le "vomit smelling" spray down takes vents. The custodial services smooi i with "industrial strength per- Th< buildi for about three weeks the hotel porar ) whorehouse." term ' when the second-floor ballroom ton w to unknown people." the bi A mi - A-i ii o *? j>oe noiei, page t. i? v-u WpP**? . i~- ^X'Ly -? ^ |||^ Ti i . | ffiiMM lp??|g| MdC ' ^ ilosion frol imnlncinn IVI llll|JIUJIUII y be delayed n Paine : Hampton Hotel won't be imploded Qnn/loif /v I vu uuuun;, awui uiii^ 1U V.J1 I 11 lill> IIIin the project. :y (the contractors) came in yesterday i it didn't look like they were going to inday," City Building Official Buddy iy. "At this point, they don't know r thpv'rp onino tn Hn it 5nnHnu nr o . j o CJ - - " from Sunday or what." Gwinn, owner of Congarce Con>n, said his workers arc still shooting h for a Sunday implosion. WE don't do it then, then the 21st," said. "We're wnrkino nn a rpul tioh? - - " ? " O M . VM( le." in said Sunday "is a goal. If we meet e fine, then we save money. It's a n of being safe, and if it's not safe, ait." n the Wade Hampton does come it will be with the aid of about 400 ; of explosives in 352 holes drilled in iement, the sixth floor and the ninth according to Jack Loizeaux, subconfor the implosion. p? will h(? installnn ?h/? cocnnH on^ ? " VII IUV OVVV11U U1IU ioors to help keep the building from into the streets. ZEAUX, THE first man to use exs to take down a building in an urban aid the implosion will take 11 seconds ive behind a 30-foot pile of rubble. I the energy they used to put every ip is stored energy just waiting for us le along," Loizeaux said. ris from the demolition will take a to clear, Gwinn said, but construc7 the AT&T hnilriino r?n fhp rnrnpr r?f bly and Gervais will begin next week ;r Wade Hampton is imploded or not. bris won't be that far from the jg," Gwinn said. "The biggest thing dust." E WADE Hampton's closing, the nation of a three-year process, was FriDnce USC got permission to sell the no thp nnrchncpr ihn finol g a year and paid an average interest of cent for the delay. hough USC was originally to get $3 n for the Wade Hampton, the final nt reached $3.15 million, according to Ward, USC attorney. here were so many people involved and such a large transaction that it resulted 3t of documents and a lot of prepara' said Cam Kreps of Development Pros, the project's coordinators. "It iust a lot of time, but it went very thly." ; university bought the 48-year-old ng from the city of Columbia for temy housing. The arrangement was short with a promise to sell the Wade Hampithin the next five to 10 years, because uilding wasn't a source of tax revenue lumbia while in university hands. Iln. tin ~r' ?r These are just some of the many balloons which appeared at the Freedom Weekend Aloft celebration held at Donaldson Center in Greenville Julv 4-7. Pictured ate the various stages a balloon must go through before the | owners and pilot are ready to fly. Each year more than 200 balloons H participate in racing competition. Un | J fortunately, July 4 brought dismal ^ weather and high winds to Greenville |||^ and only one quarter of the balloons iftew. But better weekend weather enabled the race to occur. In addition to the balloon competition, the festival featured two concerts, July 4 fireworks, arts and crafts sales and midway rides. Set photo otsoy, page 3. R| Rty Gronberg/The Gamecock f