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Volume 78, No. 5 University of South Carolina July 10, 1985
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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
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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
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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
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v. A V
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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
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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
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n Paine
: Hampton Hotel won't be imploded
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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?
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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
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