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Carolina News Housing ; from page A1 be greater than the rest of the colleges. At UF, the cheapest room will cost $722, ; and the most expensive will be $2,220. The aver • age rate, however, will be $ 1,303, according to As sistant Director of Housing Sharon Blansett. Rates will increase about 7 percent from this year’s. A double or higher occupancy room at UNC will cost $1,310, the least expensive on campus. A single air-conditioned room in Whitehead Res idence Hall will cost $2,135, the most expensive on campus. Rates will.increase about 7 percent from this year’s. i USC’s least expensive room will cost $1,004 next year, and the most expensive will be $2,000. Rates will increase an average of 4 per cent, according to Director of Housing Gene Lu na. Clemson students will pay as low as $885 and as high as $ 1,420 for a room next year. The av erage cost will be about $1,110, according to Di rector of Residential Halls Gary Campbell. Rates will increase 5.8 percent from this year’s. A variety of rooms at UGA will cost $1,353, the cheapest price for 2000-2001 students. The most expensive room rate will be $1,663. Rates will increase about 6 percent from this year’s. The cheapest room at UT will cost $ 1,000 next year, and the most expensive room will cost $ 1,400. The most common price will be $1,050, accord ing to Associate Director of Housing Tim John son. Rates will increase just below 4 percent John dUU MiU. Buildings USC has the most undergraduate residence halls with 31. UNC has 29, Clemson has 28, UGA has 17 and UT has 13. UF has 23 complexes, which can include one or more buildings. Comparing all universities, no one style of res idence halls seems to be the most common, al though there are fewer high-rises. Coed halls, how ever, seem to be more prevalent. Cuiy Clemson and USC offer air conditioning in all rooms. There’s great variety in the number of com puter labs, kitchens and laundry facilities offered for all the universities’ residence halls. At Clemson, there are three high-rises, and Campbell said there’s a good balance of tradi tional halls, suite-style halls and apartments. He also said there’s a good mix of single-gender and coed halls on campus. In traditional halls, there’s a kitchen on every floor, and in suite-style halls, there’s one or two in the building. All but eight halls have laundry facilities, and next year there will be seven computer labs in residence halls. At UF, traditional halls are more common, as are coed halls. Halls are coed by floors more so than by wings or rooms. All but three halls have AC. Kitchens are on all floors, and laundry facil ities are in all halls. There aren’t any computer labs in the residence halls because since June, 1998 all students are required to have access to a comput er. UF also has a unique policy regarding visita tion guidelines. Most halls on campus are desig nated as visitation vote areas. These halls start out with visitation plan A, 11 a.m. to midnight Sun day through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Students can choose to change this policy with a two-thirds vote. Most of these hj|(ls then become open visitation halls, Blansett saicf' At UGA, traditional halls are more common, and all but one have AC. Thirteen hails have no more than four stories, leaving four high-rises. Five halls have computer labs. There are kitchens on about every other floor, and laundry facilities in all halls. At UNC suite style halls are more common, and there are 25 halls with no more than four floors, leaving four high-rises. The high-rises are the on ly halls not to have lull AC; about 40 percent of the halls have it. The high-rises are also the only halls to have kitchens on every floor; other buildings have only one. Seven halls have com puter labs, and 18 have laundry facilities. Rebecca Casey, assistant director of housing and residential education, said UNC residence halls are moving towards coed. Currently, there are five all male halls, 10 all female halls, 10 coed-by-floor halk anrl 4 nartiallv rnp/i At USC, Luna said there’s an even split be tween traditional halls and suit-styles, and more halls are coed. Eight halls are above seven stories, and seven have computer labs. There’s a kitchen on every floor, and all halls have laundry facilities. Luna said USC was unique because of its auto mated telephone service, Laundrimate, which al lows students to call and check on washer and dry er availability. He also said the trial run this year has been a success and the university is looking in to installing it in all halls, as well as installing Web cameras in the laundry rooms. “I think it will be [made available in all halls.] This way, students can save a lot of time. It’s a convenience factor for students,” Luna said. ' At UT, syite styles are more prevalent. John son said buildings range from four to 15 floors. Three hallS'ftren’t completely air-conditioned, which equals about 488 rooms. Only some halls at UT have computer labs. > Rooms All but UGA offer each person an Ethernet connection to the Internet. Clemson is the only school to offer two phone jacks per room be cause of a party line system. Other than UNC and UT, cable is included in room rates. At UNC, rates differ per package, and at UT, it costs $77.50. The availability of micro-friciges for rooms dif fers from college to college. Smoking policies differ among universities, but a majority of them permit smoking in rooms. At Clemson, students can order micro-fridges from the university, but none are provided in rooms. Campbell said residence halls are subtly changing to smoke-free. Currently, there are five nonsmoking halls. “We still look at it as a right that people have if they want to do it. We try to give people a choice,” he said. All universities except UF allow students to have on# fish as pets. At UF, students can order micro-fridges from an authorized vendor in most halls; some suites come with them. Students can’t smoke in rooms because of the Florida Clean In door Air Act of 1992 that declared a nonsmoking policy in state-owned buildings. UF’s pet policy is unique because it allows stu dents to bring a variety of pets, including guinea pigs, dwarf rabbits, turtles, lizards and salamanders, chinchillas and non predatory birds. Residents can’t have more than two birds, mammals or reptiles and must follow other regulations on sizes and cages. “It’s probably one of the most liberal pet poli cies in the U.S. It’s another example of where we let students make as many decisions as possible. Another example of doing what students want,” Blansett said. At UGA, each student can connect to the In ternet, although the means to do so differs from building to building. One new building uses an Eth ernet connection, four use cable modems and the rest use phone lines to connect. Students must or der their own micro-fridges or bring their own mi ni-fridges. Students can’t smoke in rooms because the Residence Hall Association approved a ban on smoking in residence halls. “I would assume it was because of health fac tors. It seems to be embraced by a majority of students,” said Scott Anderson, manager of con tracts, assignments and summer conference ser vices. At UNC, students can rent micro-fridges, but none are provided. Students may smoke in rooms with their roommate’s approval. The university, however, asks students not to smoke on balconies. At USC next year, Luna said there will be an upgrade to a switched 100 Internet connection for quicker access. “We’ll have one of the fastest connections in the country,” he said. About 1500 rooms come equipped with mi cro-fridges, and students can also rent or purchase their own micro-fridges. Rooms are designated as nonsmoking, but students can smoke with the approval of their roommates. At UT, starting in the fall, all rooms will come with micro-fridges. For about nine years, Housing has been working on this plan. “We’ve been doing a lease program in the past and equipping some residence halls along the way with micro-fridges. The money we got from the leases this year will finish out all the residence halls,” Johnson said. - Smoking at UT depends on the room. Smok ers are matched with other smokers to make things easier Johnson said. Security Each university handles residence hall entrance access in a variety of ways, although card access seems to be more common. At Clemson, students enter all halls, not apart ments, at night by swiping their ID cards. During the day, however, the buildingsTiousing fraterni ties and one hall housing about 800 men do not ac tivate the system. Security officers man desks from midnight until 7:30 a.m., and students are desk as sistants at other times. At UF, about half require card access to build ings, although Blansett said there are ongoing ren ovations to equip the rest with it. There are also locked entrances to all floors. A security staff mans o hall rlocl' frnm 10 n m fn a m At UGA, students swipe their ID cards and then place their hand in a hand reader to gain en trance to the hall. This is installed at all but one residence hall, which Anderson said is run like a hotel. “We wanted to be the best in the Southeast Conference. We wanted the top-rate system. This is the best you can get,” Anderson said. At UNC, all exterior entrances are locked, and the Marlock system is used. Students insert a flat, square key into a slot to open the doors, which will set off an alarm if open for more than four seconds. At USC, students either swipe their ID cards or show their key to have access to their rooms. Next fall, nine halls will have card access. There’s always someone at the hall desk, according to Lu na. At UT, all halls have card access on exterior doors. There are cameras at all main entrances, which Johnson said desk attendants monitor 24 hours a day. Special Housing * At Clemson, special housing includes first-year programs in two residence halls, learning com munities for freshman business and engineering majors and a wellness program called Tiger Fitness, which occupies four floors in one residence hall. Sororities have floors in three residence halls, and fraternities have sides of buildings in five residence halls. There are 100 apartments available for fam ily and graduate housing. ^ At UF, three facilities are set aside for honon housing. There are also wellness floors, commu nity service floors, quiet floors and freshman ex perience floors. Sixteen of 22 sororities have on campus houses, and 19 of 26 fraternities have on-campus housing. At UGA, there are recommended halls for hon or students, but nothing exclusive. There is also a transfer-student hall and foreign-language com munities for French- and Spanish- speaking stu dents. Fraternities and sororities have off-campus housing. There are 579 apartments for graduate and family housing. : At UNC, there is no special housing for hon or students. There are, however, nine special houw ing areas. They are: Academic Enhancement, Fira Year Initiative, Health Sciences, French Language House, Spanish Language House, German Lan guage House, Substance Free, Women’s Perspec tive and UNITAS, where students are paired be cause of their differences At USC, freshman honor students reside in Maxcy College and an area in Capstone. Sopho mores live in Capstone areas as well, and juniors and seniors have about 220 rooms on the historic Horseshoe. Fraternities and sororities have then own residence halls on campus. There are two res idence halls for graduate and family housing. Special housing includes the global community NADA, wellness floors, engineering, premed and teaching-fellows communities and Preston resi dential college. USC is the only university of six to have a residential college. “Wfe were looking at ways to enhance students’ living experiences. One way to do this was to have faculty and students interact. This is a classic way,” Luna said. At UT, honor students can register for hous ing before other students can. UT has only three learning communities for freshmen. It is, howev er, third or fourth in the nation in the number of rooms available for graduate and family housing, according to Johnson. It has 1,690 apartments for single graduate students, married students and non traditional undergraduates, who are 21 years or older. ■ ; ' "h; fetWWWi [office or - Based on survey data collected by the USC Office of Alcohol & Drug ALCOHOL Programs from a random sample of USC students in November, 1998. f^cjckam^ Funding by SC DAODAS Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws project. Summer at Carolina JGr Youth Programs Enrichment Camps Sponsored by USC’s Regional Campuses & Continuing Education /^mmer at Carolina Youth Programs are a special co'*ection of week-long commuter ^Lday camps designed for children 5-14 years of agj. The camp is held on the USC A*_^Columbia campus. Keeping busy parents' schedules in mind, programs are held Monday-Friday, beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 5:15 p.m. (making it possible to drop campers off before work and pick them up after work). The camp faculty are teachers who specialize in innovative and interactive teaching styles that nurture interest and engage the campers in "hands on" learning experiences. ® We have six weeks of camp from which to choose, and the cost is only $85.00 per camper, pCr Week ^ ^omc camP* require additional fee for supplies and materials. For a detailed brochure, please contact the Camp Office: 'T'AC' 7000 777-CAMP (2267) or 2260 1/1KJ Z UUU Email. Confs@GWM.SC.EDU USC’s Talented http://www.rcce.sc.edu/sac & Gifted Program for middle school students - • Summer Camp Counselors If you need summer employment, and enjoy working with kids, then we have got the job for you! Summer at Carolina Youth Pro grams and USC’s Talented & Gifted Program are seeking camp counselors. All programs are com muter day camps, so no evening work is required. Employment dates are June 7 - July 28, 2000 (no camps the week of July 4). % For details & an application, please contact: 777-CAMP (2267) or 2260 Applications are available in our office in the Carolin^rtaza. Suite 108 Application deadline is 2000A , C* 5 / r m