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The Gamecock
Founded 1908 Friday
Volume 78, No. 16 University of South Carolina September 13, 1985
Outside line:
? phone direct
By CARL DAWSON
Staff writer
Outgoing lines for students
have been doubled in USC's
new SYSTEM-85 phone
system, and Elizabeth
Langley, USC communications
director, says she feels
problems are now minimal.
The 75 new lines, or
"trunks," were installed in 12
0 hours last Friday, bringing the
total number to 150. Fifty
more incoming trunks were
also installed, bringing that
total to 120.
Difficulty in dialing offcampus
numbers has been
students' chief complaint
against the new system.
Langley said the additional
trunks should rectify the situation.
The decision to add the
trunks was made after traffic
^ studies were begun on the
system.
"Traffic is tapering off and
dropping, so 150 trunks may
be too many. But I don't think
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because we are wary of traffic
fluctuating again. I think we'll
watch it for several months,
probably into the spring,"
Langley said.
^ According to Langley, it
W may not be to the univcftiiy&v
advantage to disconnect the
trunks because of the installation
costs involved if they need
to be reconnected.
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New parKing
By SHERRI MAKSIM
^ Stiff writer
The demand for parking at USC 1
a result of higher enrollment, but pai
adequate to meet the need, accor
parking director.
"The facilities could be better
students, faculty and staff," Bill Bf
Baker, a Columbia native, replac<
director of USC Parking and Vehi<
when Lamb resigned July 1. Baker, >
Maxcy woes
StSttlll 1U IJIS
decreasing
By JULIE BARRY
Stiff writer
Residents of Maxcy dorm are
beginning to feel settled in after
more than two weeks of com
plications resulting from the purchase
of new furniture.
Maxcy is one of the first dorms
on the USC campus to get new
furniture. But the general feeling
among Maxcy residents is that
had they known the problems
they were going to have, they
would have preferred putting up
with the old furniture.
When students arrived on campus
Aug. 25, the new furniture
was not installed in any of the
rooms, according to Craig Lind
J a _ f aI? n !J
sey, president 01 me nesiucncc
Hall Association and a Maxcy
resident.
After being promised complete
installation by the following Friday,
residents were left waiting,
he said.
"Our area manager, Mr.
(James) Kight, was very
cooperative in straightening out
the problems," Lindsey said. "It
was the furniture company's
fault."
On Aug. 27, desks arrived, and
the dressers and beds were
delivered later. The old beds remained
in the rooms along with
the new ones, however.
Stuart Ininan, a returning
0 Maxcy resident, said residents
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s double;
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Two features of the system,
call waiting and trunk cueing,
have been disabled because
they were "causing more problems
than they were worth,"
Langley said.
Call waiting signals a stu
dent on the phone when someone
else is trying to call.
Trunk cueing calls a student
back when the line clears after
he attempts unsuccesfully to
make an off-campus call when
the lines are filled.
Langley said these features
may be reinstated at a later
date.
USC's system is unprecedented
in its installment
configuration, and Langley
cites this and the newness of
the system as causes for the inadequate
number of trunks.
"We hadn't been able to do
a traffic study like this in the
past because we didn't have a
system to do it." Lanclev said.
"Southern Bell was helping us
to determine how many trunks
we needed because it was very
difficult to get a grasp on what
the traffic was for students."
American Telephone &
Telegraph and Southern Bell
guidelines showed a need for
75 to 100 trunks, but as this is
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in this configuration at any
university in the country, the
guidelines had to be based on
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ding to USC's them are near
wants, Baker sa
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the Russell House like everyone ti
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and Bates West and the Coliseum 1<
paces available, Baker said, but this
dent to walk farther to class than if ii
stered spaces.
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ions, taid problems are minimal.
]ugh spaces
atrol areas.
"We do not like to write tickets to students all tl
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"If we write them tickets, then they will learn n
o park in illegal spaces such as in the driveway
lie Pit," Baker said, referring to a gravel parkii
ot on Wheat and Sumter streets.
Not many car- have been towed since the begin
ng of the term, Baker said.
His department is available to help students fi
miking spaces at school, Baker said.
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Senator wants
block seating
for Clemson.too
By STEPHEN C. GUILFOYLE
Staff writer
The USC Student Senate had its first meeting of
; the fall Wednesday night, and among its business
was a resolution by Sen. Trip Philpot to allow student
organizations to block seat at the Carolina|
Clemson football game.
Philpot said the Senate should support the block
seating program and encourage the Athletic Departv
mont tA oantinno itc iicp fAr thie twar'c ParAlino.
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' Clemson game.
However, one senator opposed the idea.
"It's grossly unfair to the indivual student who is
standing in line, because while they wait in line, they
would watch the block seaters just come up and
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tickets," said Mike Gillen, chairman of the Senate's
Athletics, Community Relations and Off-Cammpus
Student Affairs Committee.
Gillen managed to table the nibtion until the next
meeting, when it will come before the Senate again.
He said the existing lottery system is the fairest
method of distributing tickets the Senate has
devised.
"I am aware that the lottery is very unpopular
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Gillen went on to cite the vandalism, bad
weather, sickness and violence of the last camp-out
as the deciding factors in choosing the lottery.
Gillen also said the problem of student parking is
once again looming and that his committee will be
looking into the probfem as soon as possible.
"Enrollment is up at Carolina, and that means
sck that there are more cars out there," Gillen said. "It
is a priority matter for ACO."
| Other matters at the meeting were the vacant
Senate seats.
Sen. Michelle Kersey was appointed residential
cnairman oy Muaent Government Vice President
Amy Houser, who said the Senate has about 20 vacant
seats. An election commisioner and a date for
elections will be approved at the next Senate
meeting.
SG President Kelvin Stroble, unable to make a
ot scheduled address to the Senate because of illness,
said, "I think we should have a good year."
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seating.
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