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The Student Government Sei
met for the last time this seme!
Wednesday and approved f
resolutions and four executive cab
members.
The senate unanimously apprc
the following cabinet members: N
Adler, director of Academic Affa
Crista Gaflhey, director of Greek AfiE
Alicia Walker, executive director;
Ernest Sessoms, directoi
Multicultural Affairs.
Hie senate approved Daniel Rui
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as director 01 multicultural miairi
April 10. However, they were infon
Wednesday that Russell was appro
for the wrong title. His title is dire
of Spiritual Awareness, a new cabi
position created by Student Bi
President Patrick Wright.
Senator Michelle Marinco
presented a resolution recommenc
to the S.C. State Legislature that
Student Body President serve i
voting member on the USC Boar
Trustees. The resolution was pas
unanimously.
The president currently serve:
a non-voting board member. 1
resolution says Duke, Florida St:
Kentucky, Louisiana State, Tennes
and Vanderbilt all have voting stud
members on their governing boai
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jitor Marincovic said a voting student
member will "give more of a voice of
3ter what happens on campus."
I v e Senator Darcie Shively proposed a
inet constituent program that will require
the senators to call five of their
ived constituents a week. The resolution
[att also calls for surveys to be placed in
ars. fall advisement folders. The survey
airs- will ask "student service" questions,
and Shively said.
0f The resolution passed unanimously.
According to senator T.C. Ford, it
ssell is not a requirement for faculty to issue
3on a class syllabus. The senate
ned unanimously passed a bill
iVed recommending the Faculty Senate
ctor require faculty to have a class syllabus,
[net The senate passed another bill to
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According to Ford, this service will be
vjc "maintained by the Computer Service
l^g Division," which will keep the cost low.
the The senate has not yet discussed
ls a the possibility of this bill with CSD.
d of Vice President Jamel Franklin said
se(j Dennis Pruitt, vice president of Student
Affairs, is "looking into it."
3 as The senate passed a resolution that
phe will try to bring back a shuttle from
ate campus to the Williams-Brice Stadium
jsee on g31116 days. Senators said this would
lent "deter drinking and driving." The
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"The Department of Housing needs
to be an open book," Luna said.
"(Housing is) a partnership with
students. We all have a stake in
directing housing."
A change in housing sign-up
resulted in more than 200 people on
a waiting list. Luna said incoming
freshmen were guaranteed housing,
and "the people with the highest need
are freshmen ... we made a
commitment to freshmen."
Because of the demolition of Baker
and Burney and the renovation of
Maxcy, housing has had to deal with
a loss of available rooms. Housing,
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JENNIFER STANLEY Asst. News Editor
About 15 people attended Student
Government's housing forum, 11 of
whom were SG members and housing
staff.
"I think it (the housing forum)
was very successful," said Patrick
Wright, Student Government
president "The things Dr. Luna talked
about are things that students need
to hear."
Gene Luna, director of Housing
and Residential Services, updated
students on the latest housing
developments and entertained
questions about Greek housing,
housing renovations, costs and sign
N KOLNITZ News Editor
TV-hired production companies
d to build the set for the Hootie
Uowfish concert Wednesday, some
were angered to see tree limbs
seshoe trees being cut down,
jophy sophomore Darrin Burgess
bought the limbs were being cut
the concert.
e trees are going to be worth a hell
lore than these four morons that
l/s going to forget about in five
way," Burgess said. "It just doesn't
i it's going to be worth it. It's only
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McKinney, university spokesman,
trees limbs that were cut down
scheduled to be removed anyway.
ector addres
along with student input, decided to
assign freshmen to the residence halls
that are hall-bath style and allow
upperclass students to reserve rooms
in the suite-style halls. About 2,240
spaces are available for freshmen,
who must reserve their Dlace bv June
15.
Luna said the department could
guarantee housing to those students
on the waiting list because oi
cancelations and "no-shows". The
specific room assignments for those
waiting are still uncertain.
"We will find a place for everybody.
That's a promise," Luna said.
Housing fees generate about $12
million in revenue each year. Two
million dollars of that total goes toward
renovations. One million dollars goes
to pay the wages of students who
works as resident advisers and desk
assistants and to maintenance
personnel.
Several students voiced their
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increase. Luna said a base amount
of 3 percent would be added to the
costs of housing.
Additional charges may be
assessed to individual halls for extra
services. For example, Preston and
Sims will be charged an extra $32
for renovations. Other residents may
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students surf Netscape for a last forage
for easy information, off-campus students
checking daily e-mail may get a busy
signal.
In light of exams, this may seem at
worst an annoying inconvenience. But
to technological policy-makers on campus,
the problem of increasingly difficult online
"access is no small shakes.
Solution?
The USC campus is being further
"wired" for online accessibility, convenience
? even optional frills.
According to George Terry, vice provost
for Libraries and Information Systems,
a two-fold project overseen by the
Academic Computing Information
TppVinnlnov flnmmiffoo ( APTTm will
first, increase mainframe computer access
? which includes student e-mail
transactions ? by networking the
remaining residence halls and academic
buildings on campus, resulting in more
free phone lines.
E-mail transactions and access to
textual (words, no pictures) Internet will
remain free of charge.
"CMS (Conversational Monitoring
System) is not going away anytime soon,"
said Patrick Calhoun, network librarian
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ADAM SNYDER Asst. News Editor
With Earth Day almost here, an
Honors College geology 102 class
culminated their studies of the
environment with a panel discussion
with community leaders.
"Sustainable Development in South
Carolina" was the theme of the talk.
Five community leaders were invited
to speak and answer questions based
on a proposal students had put together
through research.
Timothy Rogers and Alma Byrd,
state representatives from Richland
County; Tom Perlic, director of the
South Carolina Sierra Club; Ed Parler,
director of economic development with
the Chamber of Commerce; and Willie
Morgan, the permitting liaision; and
environmental quality control of DHEC
served on the panel. Melissa Inzerillo
of the class was also on the panel.
To prepare for discussion, students
researched topics and developed several
focus groups. They were: economic and
ses fall changi
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Saturday, May 4
a Residence Halls will offi- r
cially close at 4 p.m. and \
open for May session stu- j
dents at 8 p.m. ^
a Residents who are not (
participating in commencement
exercises are required
to vacate their rooms within
24 hours after their last
exam. ^
Thursday, May 30 I
a Halls open at 8 a.m. for
Summer I.
Saturday, July 6
Halls open at noon.
be charged extra so their hall can
operate during breaks.
"It's always like that," Luna said.
"A portion you pay today is an '
investment in tomorrow."
According to Luna, Housing has
and will cut staff to keep costs as low
as possible.
Housing also is working to
complete the master plan. About 400 r
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and a member of the committee. "We
have to have that as a subsidized function.
I view e-mail as a basic function."
The second part of the project seeks
to make available an optional access to
Netscape with graphic accompaniment
through a university contract with an
outside vendor, such as America Online
or Compuserve.
Both services apply to students on
and off campus, as well as faculty and
staff.
ACITC members emphasize that
service provided through vendor contracts
is separate and distinct from e-mail. "Ihe
new package is not the new e-mail
alternative," Calhoun said. "Providing
a new option would be exactly that ?
an option."
To receive the optional graphic web
access, students will be billed ? probably
directly by the not-yet-chosen provider.
Vendors' rates, number or hours online
included, as well as general quality of
vender services are currently under
comparison by ACITC and its advisory
committee.
Re-channeling Netscape users
through the outside vendor, in addition
to providing direct CMS access in every
dorm room, should significantly free up
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business, political and legislative,
environmental, community,
international, and outreach.
"We tried to find people who would
have knowledge about these issues,"
said class member and panel moderator
Clifton Chestnut.
The class's goals were to educate
the class and community about
environmentally sound economic
development and to produce a guideline
useful to S.C. citizens.
The class's original idea was a model
United Nations, but after Doug
William's class attended a talk at
Woodhill Mall a few months ago, the
idea shifted to a community panel.
We decided that community leaders
need to know how students felt. The
best ways of affecting policy is by
communication with community
leaders," Chestnut said.
Hie class's original idea was a model
United Nations, but after Doug
ENVIRONMENT page 2
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lousing spaces will be established
hrough apartments that will be built
>n the comer of Sumter Wheat streets,
idjacent to Blossom Street Garage,
fhese apartments include four private
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oom and kitchen. The apartments
vill open in fall 1997.
Another 450 spaces will be
istablished by the year 2000.
The Greek village is in the
banning stage. Luna said Housing
nay buy land and contract it as a
levelopment to Greek organizations.
3n-campus Greek housing, much like
VlcBryde Quad, will still exist.
"Issues of equity need to be
iddressed. I'm committed to that,"
juna said.
The USC Board of Trustees has
jiven their support for the Greek
rillage project.
The target date for Greek
>rganizations to enter a lottery for
and is January 1997.
In other business, the Board of
rrustees has approved $1.3 million
>f funding for a "state-of-the-art"
security system for the residence
lalls. They would entail access to the
lalls by use of student ID cards.
According to Luna, such a system
nay be in place by fall 1997.
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