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Adding a Pei j$ ' fHB: i ii 1^1 I Propose CECE VON KOtNITZ News Editor The cost of improvements administrators want to make to USC's computer network and services may be paid for by students. If trustees approve the USC system budget, which was presented to them last week, full-time students .<^11 ? tir\ J.,* will pajr a ?piu maiiuatuij LCimiuiugjr fee. The fee, which will be increased to $100 per year at the beginning of the 1997-98 school year, is expected to provide $1.3 million for the enhancement of USC's current computer network. The money will be used to wire more dormitories for direct access to the Internet, to allow students to ac r i _ J.* ___ J i! J 1 cess registration ana individual information from computers, to add email accounts and replace work stations. John Finan, USC vice president for business and finance, said starting the fees at $35 per semester and sonal Touch i . . V : ; ' . ' d budgei Tuition Changes Fee schedule per semester for full Undergraduate Resident 1,640 1 Non-Resident 4,162 4 GraduateResident 1,754 1 Non-Resident 3,542 3 Law Resident 3,084 3 Non-Resident 6,112 6 Technotegy Fee- 0 * Rates apply to all campuses. * * The technology tee will Increase to $50 for Fiscal Yeai then moving up to $50 will provide an "easier transition." University President John Palms said the decision to gradually increase the fee is part of a commitment he fmm ^ ^ Heidi Moses, psychology junior, volunteers 12 hours a week for Baptist Med ical Center's Personal Touch Volunteer Program. Moses currently volunteers in the nursery and recovery units and behavioral health services. Above, Moses prepares a newborn baby for a bath. Personal Touch volunteers provide nont requires te< IT said almost 50 p T^imTOfR major universiti gy fee. -time students (1995-96 to 1996-97) Student rea increase in tuiti Exercise s( ,681 41 2.5% MarieMurphys 287 125 3.0% tie ndiculous, bi cause you can't without the moi ,815 61 3.5% Ashley Jone ,684 142 4.0% sophomore, sail to lniorm tne \ ,238 154 5.0% They need toll ,418 306 5.0% According t . ... Commission oi 35 0 NA use charges t state tuition an r 1997-98 for the Columbia and Regional campuses. of-state tuition C - . universities. made to students. He said students Trustee-ele are concerned about debt and rising asked why no ?to find ways of co reconsidering 1: Finan, who presented the Palms' stead of raising administration budget to the board, Palms said i -a mm ,-o-: * * V Iff pJM PHOTOS BY SHIN YUN The Gamecock medical comfort care to hospital patients and their families. Currently the program has 126 volunteers, 25 of which are eii ther undergraduate or graduate students at USC. After participating in a three phase ' training course, volunteers work on the nursing units in 4 hour shifts, generally between 7 a.m. and 11 n.m. I chnology fee ercent of the county's "In the long run, you'd be devastating es charge a technolo- this university." The proposed budget would raise ction to the possible undergraduate resident tuition by 2.5 on was mixed. percent. Non-resident undergraduate :ience junior Lynn students face a 3 percent increase, laid, "I think if s a lit- ? it I think if s good be- Other aspects of the proposed budimprove technology get include: ley." >A $122 increase in tuition for is, a political science resident graduate students and a d, "I think they need $284 increase for non-resident stuvhole student body, dents. jt everybody know." >An increase of $308 in tuition for 0 statistics from the resident law students and a $612 in1 Higher Education, crease for non-residents. he third highest in- >No change in tuition for stud second highest out- dents attending USC's School of Med)f 12 S.C. colleges and icine. ct Robert McLellan Palms said,This has been a very, fforts had been made very difficult budget to face and to put saving $2 million by together. We will not lose momentum, ast year's budget, in- but we will not gain it a great deal." tuition. Finan said, "Our budget meets our f $2 million were cut, minimum needs."