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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Wednesday
Volume 78, No. 6 University of South Carolina July 17, 1985
Family f
Loizeaux cl
By Susan Paine
^ News editor
Alfred Nobel invented it a
cd it.
Dynamite is being used
would have approved of hs
hands of the Loizeaux fami
Using the smallest amount
to bring down a structure, t1
a worldwide reputation
demolition.
The family company, *
i _ _ i i l
inc., was Dcguu uy Lui^eau;
cd by dynamite in the late 1
He helped survey a site fc
f River near Athens, Ga.,
Georgia class, and worked v
loading dynamite into hole;
He watched tons of loam
to re-route the river 12 mini
plunger.
It just fascinated nic
couldn't sleep lor a week."
Originally a forestry ma
plosives to help bring dowi
own tree care business, Bur
and began taking other sit
until the explosives busines
P than his tree care business.
His wife, Freddie, has \
treasurer for the company.
L.LM nas reiica over ouu i
business in 1957.
The company has als<
smokestacks, along with
deepening a seaport in C
radar tower 160 miles cast
"That was the most exci
said Loizcaux. "It was in
three 180-foot legs with
tower."
Loizeaux said he eouldn
be dangerous to shipping,
and floated the structure b
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Implosion
fytvm Ni?i
mm mot
f/, Contractors handling
^ Wade Hampton Hotel
pass before the building
Mil** finl srheritileri v
contractor and owner of
"I hope we can make it
M Gwinn said thejre ? Sti
to be done before it is ii
wV??
^ndOwinn said hefd lik.
mc ranrwro is.
"The better job we c
the better job we can dc
Despite report* that
@ Hot be imploded last
thought it was a ploy I
Jf-S^'eral spectators she
v^t 6 iim. bat were disa]
can tell you'the ex*
J -Jo shoot," said Jack 1
and owner of Comr<
porated. "It's when we
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By Susan Paine
News editor
Students who apply
after March 1 for entran
1986 may not get in.
The Faculty Senate i
on July 1 a new method
ting freshman and
students for next fall.
The best applicants w
cepted Dec. 1 and notifi
/\tUar onnlinit lAno mill 1
uuivi appiivpuuii.1 win i
? through March 1, saic
Haynes, director of adn
"Depending on how
have, the second notificj
ruiiuid
From Staff Reports
Outlet Pointe Mall an
sponsoring a fundraisii
Styles, a former USC
accident.
* 0 Styles, who was grad
psychology degree, was
:rew
an masters demo
shipload of si
r:ri,
I nvy 1111 o11
nd Jack Loizcaux tam- proach of \
themselves in
in a way its inventor wave.
id the too! been in the The Loizej
ly a century ago. years of expe
of explosives necessary ing down a s
he Loizeauxs have built Loizeaux's
for safe explosive vice prcsiden
sues since iru
Controlled Demolition when they ec
who become entranc- Mrs. l oi/e
i930s. on the job be
>r re-routing the Oconee the chimney
with his University of He becam
vith a Du Pont engineer was 19 and '
> students drilled. two years ei
and mud fly into the air broken back
utcs after he pressed the being hit by
the snow.
Loizeaux said. "I
Loizcaux :
ijor, Loizcaux used ex- follow in his
i diseased trees with his Now 13 L
nbrae Tree Service Inc., follow in tl
ie jobs using explosives business,
s became more lucrative Loizcaux :
person runs
vorked as secretary and "Business
it," he said.
mildings since going into The Loiz
Milwaukee I
3 toppled bridges and sion of the 1
unusual jobs such as CDI does
hile and felling a Navy said they on
of Boston. not all jobs
ting job rve ever done, The Loizc
80 feet of water and on of prime co
a three-story triangular "I think
Mrs. Loizes
't sink it because it would band added
so he blew the legs out Since the
iy filling the tower with a have never t
? T',. " \ million doll
,* l.oi/eaux '
the implosion olwfe Loizeaux
say another week may ''nc* us 'n 1
s? Seismour
;wfvYfwIH; sions have I
-Ct," said Curt Gwrnn, { 0i/eaux s;
coi ?iij
La* Petite f
a*dowl0i prtpanulw, . Since ih,
he said. jobs in the
said the buildilift vvould whitc P?ot
' i?_ _t _ thoir fnmil
Ip^pgp'
^pointed, y 8 do," l.oi/<
tcuime when we're goi>?g ^ ^Pubjishi
acuity Sei
for increased a
be the last," Haynes said
guess the change is a result c
to USC increase in applications for
ce in fall fall. They were up abou
percent."
jpproved
of accep- She said the university ex
transfer another increase in applicat
and USC may not take stu<
ill be ac- that would have been acc<
ed, while before.
be sorted "It's getting harder to get
1 Debbie Haynes said. "Because of tl
lissions. crease and the quality of th
many we plications increased, we de<
ttionmay we needed better control."
+? hnlr
IOCI IU llClf.
Styles I
id the Columbia Jaycees are returned I
ng event Saturday for Joe ing funds
student paralyzed in a car to be pari
"He ui
uated two years ago with a some ther
injured Dec. II, 1984. in Englan
ilition explosives
lyrofoam.
icd.the job in seas raging from the aplurricane
Hazel and had to lower
a lifeboat onto the peak of a 40-foot
iuxs can merely pull a file from their
rience when they begin to look at takimilar
structure.
cahc Niirl/ l^rmki r\rnii/lnnt on^l
.-?VMi:> |V|(U IN (4 11VI U/WVI^, | /1 V..11UV ill UllVi
t respectively, have been at demolition
ry were about 10 and began chipping in
>uld.
'?.? * said she could tell when Mark was
:cause he'd put just enough explosive in
to send soot flying into the air. .
e the youngest licensed blaster when he #
was allowed to take the blasters' exam
irly, while his father recovered from a
suffered not from dynamite, but from S
a car while helping a motorist stuck in a
C
said he never planned for his "sons to
footsteps because it's too dangerous."
oizcaux grandchildren are available to
icir grandparents' multimillion-dollar
says if too many people get involved, a
into trouble.
has to stay small so you can control
eaux company plans to implode a
[wilding at the same time as the imploWade
Hampton Hotel.
n't have trouble finding jobs. Loizeaux
ly accept two out of five offers, because
arc feasible.
;aux sons are willing to take on the role
ntractors, rather than sub-contractors,
they'll probably become much larger,"
iux said. "And much richer," her husy've
gone into business the Loizeauxs
nade an insurance claim, but they have a
ars of basic insurance. Loizeaux's comusing
minimal amounts of explosives to
done contributes to their clean record,
all you need in this business," says
'One bad job."
said his competitors "would like to
rouble, but they never have."
aph readings of the Loizeauxs' implo
uwcii luwei iiiuii wucii a iiuck uiivo uy,
lid.
have two seismographs checking vibra:
Wade Hampton falls.
; is the French for bird, and soon the
new mobile home will be painted with
nal name given to all their travel trailers:
Jid, or The Little Nest.
ey'vc retired, the couple often goes on
ir mobile home with their marshmallowile
Fame to allow their sons to be with
ies.
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k'cr to their sons though.
and Doug make more decisions than I
:aux said.
;rs have been asking for a book to be writeir
experiences, and Mrs. Loizcaux is
e.
ing to be called 'Life Has Been a Blast',"
riate appro*
ttendance
I. "I The changes in the process pro>f
the vide that applicants with higher
this qualifications than students
t 25 already enrolled won't be left out
of admissions.
pects Requirements for admission to
ions, the provisional year, for S.C.
Jents students not yet enrolled, will
ipted also increase.
in." A maximum of 250 students
ic in- may be accepted into the provie
ap- sional year. They will be accepted
cided with GPRs up to .25 below the
cutoff point to the university.
i naralv7Pii
9 |^Vil Ml J I.UM
friend Pam Jackson said Styles recently
lome from the hospital because of dwindl.
Styles is the second member of his family
alyzed in a car accident.
gently needs therapy and we'd like to get
apy for him lat the University of Miami or
id, where its .cheaper," Jackson said.
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V day at the lake ^
USC's Windsurfing Club and Carolina W
ailing and bport sponsored a regatta |
t Lake Murray Saturday. Diver Doug ( \
lurig of (JSC's Scuba Club also haplened
to be there. ^
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res admis
College's requit
By Susan Paine '
News editor
17 I... C" o ? ?
i lie raiuuy ocuaii; a^piuvtu a
raise in admission requirements
to the college of journalism in
1986.
The new 2.5 grade point
average replaces the present 2.2
reauiremcnt to increase the ciuali
ty and decrease the number of
students, Dr. Perry Ashley, journalism
interim dean said.
The number of journalism
students admitted for the fall is
up by 52 percent, and the advertising
sequence has been closed
former sti
lack?if>n said treatment itl Mian
day, while only $1(MX) a week in En
Saturday's fundraiser will consist
thon, bake sale, prize drawing and i
a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Jul
Pointe.
The cosmetologists will cut hair
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Vs.* pi Ht T:
-. ?.t?^^^BjBBI y? .BF:;~.;
* *$&Hh?
f *; -?*<Pr '*
w
IT /
m ^v-.
, -r
isions ct
emems mcrei
out to new students.
"We're not the first ones t(
have done this," Ashley said
"It's just a means of improvinj
the quality of students and th<
product, if you want to think of i
that way, when they come out o
the J-school."
Students already enrolled ii
the school will not be affected b
the new requirement. They ar
obligated to maintain a 2.2 GPI
throughout their collcgc career.
Students who entered th
advertising program before Jun
are safe, but the college isn't ai
nripnt np1
ii costs $5()0 a donation for
gland. haircuts will I
of a hair cut-a- Former Mi
iu/>?i/\n f r/\m 1A at I ho mall c
UltllUll IIVJIII IV/ Ml iliv IIIUII ty
20 at Outlet Donations
Fund in care
for a $5 dollar umbia, S.C.
f *
g?? J' gfi 1
I >
r>
B ,i .^v.- ^
J*
r J-**'
..* /wf*
'I.:-*,. -.
I
mnges
jse in fall
cepting any more, Ashley said.
) I nis isn i inc nrsi nine iiic ?c-quence
has been closed off.
I "Two or three years ago we
z had to put a cap on it," he said.
1 Lloyd Brown, assistant pro
' fessor of journalism, said a
waiting list may be considered for
a the advertising program, but
y criteria for admittance need to be
c determined first.
< "We've already had to turn
away quite a few students,"
e Brown said. "We're caught with
e the same thing other departments
> are."
! ff
l nicid|jy
adults or $4 for children. Discounts
r>e offered for students.
ss South Carolina Dalia Garcia will be
it 1 p.m. to support the fundraising.
may also be made to the Joe Styles
of Southern Bank, P.O. Box 728, Col29202