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A mesmerizing performance
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PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK
Hypnotist Michael Anthony makes students think their hands are permanently stuck together.
Anthony performed Tuesday night in the Russell House, along with magician Michael Super.
Tuition
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this semester. Other USC cam
puses also received tuition in
creases to help meet USC’s $670.6
million budget for its eight cam
puses. It now costs $4,784 for in
state and $6,432 for out-of-state
undergraduates to attend USC
Columbia.
The tuition increase is expect
ed to generate an additional $12.6
million, roughly 15.4 percent of
the $82 million in tuition expect
ed this year. Tuition usually ac
counts for about 41 percent of the
university’s budget.
One concern that comes with
tuition increases is the availabil
ity of scholarships and financial
aid for students. The state
Legislature increased funds for
state-supported scholarships
with the enactment of the S.C.
Education Lottery Act in 2001. In
state students with high academ
ic performance can now receive
as much as $6,700, plus book al
lowances, in scholarship money
from the state.
The Legislature expanded the
number of students eligible for
the Life Scholarship by requiring
students to meet only two out of
the three criteria: at least a 3.0
grade-point average and 1100 SAT
score, and graduation in the top
30 percent of their high school
class. USC had 800 Life recipients
in 2000 and now has 1,800.
“These state-lottery scholar
ship programs absolutely en
courage students to stay in South
Carolina,” said Dennis Pruitt,
vice president of student and
alumni services. “It’s hard for a
family who has a $40,000 income
to turn their back on $20,000 over
four years—that’s what the Life
Scholarship is.”
USC has 385 students who
have received the state Hope
Scholarship, which is a smaller
amount granted for one year to
students with lower SAT scores.
The total number of USC state
scholarship recipients jumped
from about 1,400 to more than
2,300 in the last year, despite re
ports that show large percentages
of students don’t retain Life
Scholarships in their second
year.
Ed Miller, director of scholar
ships and financial aid, said ap
propriating more money to aca
demically talented students is a
good thing for the university, but
not for students with average
grades and SAT scores. Miller
thinks many of these students are
“very capable” of performing
well in college and sometimes
lack the proper financial aid.
State institutions are also look
ing to increase tuition and pri
vate development to keep up with
elite private schools, which
thrive on their private invest
ments instead of relying on un
stable state appropriations.
Pruitt said he hopes the state re
alizes that the poorest of students
can receive a state-subsidized
higher education as they did
through public education before
college.
Clemson University and the
College of Charleston raised tu
ition this semester as well. The
number of people borrowing
money for college tuition is in
creasing nationally, Pruitt
said.
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