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Volume 80, No. 49 University of South Carolina January 13, 1988 P
Housing f
By MARY FKAKSON
Senior reporter
The first housing fee increase in four years was
unanimously approved this past month by the USC Board
of Trustees.
i rie increase win oe an average 01 o. / percent lor singiestudent
residence halls and 5.1 percent for married- studjfe
dent housing, said Richard Wert/, IISC vice president for
business affairs.
All housing fee increases are scheduled to take effect at
the beginning of the fall semester.
" I'hc increase will range from 4 percent to 8 percent
depending on the residence hall. Columbia Hall's fee in
crease will he a little higher because ot the asbestos
removal and renovations, which cost close to $1.2
million," Wert/ said.
"We practically redid that whole building in terms of
recarpeting, replacing the lobby and lounge furniture and
repainting because of the asbestos removal," he said.
Some of the highest fee increases were for Columbia
Hall, which will increase from $685 to $741; and for
South Tower, which will increase from $610 to $661 a
semester.
The proposal to increase housing lees was presented at
a Hoard of Trustees Student Liaison Committee meeting
this past October by Pete Denton, senior vice president of
business and finance.
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Assistant news editor
The blanket of ice that covered much of the Southeast
this past week also froze many of the activities necessary
for a new semester to get underway.
The first day of classes was cancelled, and registration
was set hack two days. Students and faculty not in Columbia
had trouble getting here, and those in Columbia
had trouble getting around on the icy roads.
irven students who chose to walk rather than drive
found ice-slickened sidewalks just as hazardous as the
highways.
Hut Carl Stokes, systems vice president for the Division
of Law Enforcement and Safety, said that despite the obvious
dangers, everything went routinely for his department,
and he had nothing tragic to report.
Hecause such weather is rare for the area, many
students were out playing and sliding on the ice, but
Stokes said he had no reports of anyone getting seriously
hurt.
"Students have heen well behaved and have been enjoying
themselves without causing problems," he said.
Ik- had no reports from any of the USC campuses of
serious auto accidents or fatalities and commended his officers
for working smoothly through the inconvenient
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situation.
"Our officers are pretty much ready to handle any
situation," he said, adding that when the roads got really
slick, patrol officers employed the four-wheel drive
vehicles ouncd by the university.
"We used the four-wheel drives for patrolling and to
get (lie people here who needed to be here," Stokes said,
referring to key administrators and stall members who
had to get to campus during the ice storm.
The tour-wheel drives we.e also doubling as standby
ambulances in case students needed immediate medical
care, said Dt. Isao Hirata, director of the Thomson Student
I lealth ( enter.
Hirata said the health center was forced to close down
I'luirsday before the roads became impassable because
"the staff simply does not live close enough to stay open
in weather like this."
So, Hirata said, instructions were left on the health
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emergencies to cull the campus police.
The campus police could then pick I lie student up in
one ol the four-wheel drives and take him to a hospital,
hut Hirata did not say anyone had to do this.
Whether or not the missed day of classes will have to be
made up remains unknown, although many administrator
believe it will not.
Jerry Brewer, dean of student life, said that if the day
were to be made up. it would be on one of the Master
break days.
lint Mike Welsh, associate provost, said there is
nothing m IJS( policy that says the missed day has to be
rescheduled. Me said since only one dav was missed, it
doesn't pose too big a problem.
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See related story, page 6.
By PATRICK J KAN
Features editor
Shottly before Christmas, the University of South
Honda gained a new president at the IJSC administration's
expense.
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provost since 1978, was named president of IJ SI Dee. 22
He drew words of praise from USC President Jame>
Holderman and from those in I lorida who selected him
for the new post.
USI , with a mam campus in lampa and five hrancl
campuses, was founded in I960. lint it has grown rapidly
its enrollment of about It),(KM) students makes it tlu
||p second largest university in l lorida. Ii had been looking
for a president since mid 19K7, when John I olt llrowi
announced he would resign to concentrate on researcl
and teaching.
A nationwide search began, with more than 240 peopl<
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The Louisiana State University liters defeated the (i?
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applying or being nominated. Borkowski, who was
nominated, emerged in mid-November as the favorite
among three finalists: himself; Mark Auburn, vice presii
dent of planning at the University of Arkansas; and Israel
fribble Jr., president of the Florida Endowment for
Higher (education.
I Alter a lengthy series of interviews, Uorkowski was
recommended unanimously Dec. 22 by USF's Search Ad
. visory Committee. He was then appointed unanimously
i by the state university system's Hoard of Regents.
Charles Reed, chancellor of the state university system,
i recommended Uorkowski over Auburn and Tribble. "Dr.
; Uorkowski has an excellent vision of IJSF as an urban
research university, and in addition, he brings wide cx?
pcrience in international education," he said.
i Joan Rufficr, chairwoman of the Board of Regents,
i said USC's provost presented "a more global vision of
South Florida than any of the other candidates. He can
? make USF one of the top 25 universities in the country."
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"USC has not placed all the additional security person
nel in the residence halls yet, but security guards will be
placed at every entrance by next tall," he said.
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Thai, in fact, is one of Horkowski's goals as president.
Borkowski said he wants to make IJSI a school ot in
ternational significance by the 21 si centnry. lo do thai,
he plans to increase fund laising. lure more minority
students and faculty, increase faculty salaries and input.
improve master planning and possibly combine its four
separate colleges of arts and sciences into a single school
()ne ol his more ambitious goals is to stress more fin.in
cing for higher education throughout Honda, rather than
competition with rival universities for tax dollars.
Another is to build a research park on campus similar to
the Research Triangle Park near :lie University of North
Carolina.
"I'm excited about the challenges of being at the helm
of the fastest developing university in the fastest growing
part of the nation," Minkowski said. " 1 here are a lot of
positive factors there that helped me make up my mind."
"It is going to be a great loss to us," Holderman said
Monday. "The provost has been a great friend, so per
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l-.ven with (lie |i;XH increase, IJSC 's icsidcnce h;i I Is remain I :
a cheaper housing alternative lor students he said. F?
"It is our intent to have good housing lor all income [i
levels as close as possible to classes. You can still live j /:
cheapei on campus than other places on campus. In I
ioiiikI numhets, housing can cost anywheie from S5(X) a
semestei to a high of $ 10(H). I hat is a pret t y wide spread," :
Denton said. [ 5
Wert/ said there may be an increase in the mminuuu p;
wage from S3.35 to $4.50, which may also affect rates. p
"We have a lot of part-timers working lor minimum p
wage. II the increase is passed in Congiess, depending on
when ii goes into effect, we will reassess the increase," [f
Wert/ said. p
Some students have expressed concerns about the in- I
creases. IJSC Student Ciovermnent President Mike Mogue
said. "My biggest concern is that this is not an isolated fee N
liuic.'ko Ol h?*r initiv'kik rmti/mi -?I im fea
cicascs, are still pending. I asked them to keep this in
mind when they considered the increase."
Columbia Hall residents said the increase was necessary
hut created an additional hardship when combined with
other increasing educational costs such as tuition.
Nursing junior Ann Chinners said, "I guess they have
to increase, but it is a good bit of a jump. It is hard with
everything increasing. II they incteased one thing at a
time, it would make it easier."
stees pass
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i()N paneling the graduate school into a
system wide University (iraduate
some USC ad- College.
illy and trustee "We are going to make it il we
ng a realistic but have to do it out of private money,"
r the university to said USC President James Holder>t
century was ap- man, who just celebrated his 10th
rd of Ttustecs this year as president.
"We will achieve every goal set
cl "2001: The New forth in the 2001 plan. If we can't get
ines several goals it from the state, which is the most
: by the year 2001. logical place, we will get it out ot
>e goals is raising private money or federal money."
inent from 35,000 Holder man s a i d it p .i s t
s, maintaining an achievements could be repeated, the
-state students to plan is a very modest proposal of
lents, increasing what could be accomplished over the
i from y in next I ^ venrs
surpassing SI50 "Let's lake a look at endowment,
>r research. which is at $39.9 million now. In tire
s called for bring- last 10 years, endowment has incre.isforcfront
ol com- ed tenfold over the last 10 years,"
by establishing a Molderman said. "II \se were to do
implex that will re- that again over the next 10 years, we
l the world and ex- See "2001," pa),c 2
exposure raises
er of applications
ri'NK year, they are slightly higher," she
r said.
xposure USC lias In 1987, the university received
">ast year has had a 6,766 applications lor admission,
the number of ap- "I am pretty sure that the increase
ice of admissions is probably the result of the national
of Jan. I, says media exposure the university lias
IJSC director of received over the past year."
The general number of students exnical
Year," multi- peeled to enroll in the university next
computer system, fall is 2,5(M), Haynes said, although
er and nationally USC will accept more because all
id soccer teams arc those accepted will not enroll.
ibutes as the pro- The admissions office accepted
the incicasc in ap some students on the first notifica<t
yeai's freshman lion date, which was Nov. 15, but the
majority of the applicants will be acic
US( admissions cepted on (lie s;- >nd notification
ed .1,^7.1 applica- date, which is ' .... I.
n, compared to the The recently approved increase in
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believe ihe number number of applicants for next fall as
indicative ol the much as the image the university has
by the linal accep- received will.
date, which is I eb. "1 doubt that tuition will have a
significant effect on the numbei of
in the game, but students coming to IJS( , because we
statistics from last See "Kreshman," psij?e 3
or nt-if
Jot ad pi ^divatin
sonally ii is also going to he a great loss "
Hut I lokleiman said Borkowski's experiences as provost
will help him at IJSI-. "I love to see oiher people lake
on new responsibilities and bring credit u> t aiolma,
because vvhcrevei they go, they take the success ol
( aiolma with them."
I riday will be Hoi kowski's final day on l he job at I S( .
( hestei Ham, former dean ol the College ol Humanities
and Social Sciences, v.ill serve as acting executive vice
picsidcnt and provost until a successor is round. A search
committee has been formed, and a new piovosi is ex
pecieu i() (?. nameu ny uns lau.
Minkowski takes o\er at IJSI lob. IS (.lining the
school's Ilomecoming week. One oi Ins 111 st duties will be
selecting a person lor an office he's very familial with
plOVOSt .
Senior reporter Mary Pearson also contributed to this
report.