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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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made to students. He said students Trustee-ele
are concerned about debt and rising asked why no ?to
find ways of
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Finan, who presented the Palms' stead of raising
administration budget to the board, Palms said i
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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.
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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."