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Bierbauer CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 nos start to fall, then Petigru will lx made available to us.” Bierbauei said the college plan to renovate th< building to make it more adept tc the needs of the college. Senior semester One of the core curriculums o the journalism school is the se nior semester, where student; work full time producing a week ly newspaper or daily new; broadcast. The course, whic! counts for 12 credits, has beer both a blessing and a curse tc some students. “I hear two things,” Bierbauei said. “Some students love it be cause it’s as close to a real news room experience as you can get and I also hear students who’c rather work at WIS or The State There’s not a good solution to that right now.” Bierbauer stressed that the course is a graduation require ment and that students should plan for it in their schedules, but stopped short of saying the course was here to stay. “It doesn’t mean we don’t con stantly assess what we need,” he said. “Everything can change, but we think it is a beneficial aspect of our curriculum. ” Whatever changes Bierbauer de cides to make for the new college, he will be making them withno previous experience in education —a fact that doesn’t concern him. “This is a professional school, and I have a professional back ground,” he said. “As a journal ist, I value the benefits of research and I eagerly support the ad vancement of that in this college.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Meal Plan CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Meal Plan) so I could eat at El Burrito,” said Dave Welch, a fourth-year business management student. According to Off Campus Access, the meal plan is expected to be convenient for many stu dents. They have the options of delivery, take-out and eat-in. Students can eat whenever they feel like it. Students who participate in the Five Points Meal Plan receive a card that is similar to a check card. Students take the card to the restaurants, where it is swiped through a machine that charges the amount to their account. Accounts can be checked online, so the student can put more mon ey into the account at anytime. Money can be added to the ac count over the phone with Tele Check, by mailing a check or on line through electronic check or check card. “We don’t accept credit cards so the students can use every dollar at the restaurants,” Lloyd said. The plan allows money to roll over from the previous semester. If a student graduates and has money left in the account, Off I Campus Access will refund the re maining amount so that no meals are lost. Meal plans run from an esti mated three meals a week at $256 a semester to 18 meals a week at $1,537 a semester. The plan can be purchased at any time. “Students have responded more than we hoped, but it is still new to the campus and not everyone knows about it yet,” Lloyd said. Local restaurants that signed up with the Five Points Meal Plan are looking forward to the new business. “We’re expecting a lot more business because they don’t need to have the money on them,” said Emily Ray, manager of Carolina Bagel on Sumter Street. Lauren Schlueter, owner of Carolina Bagel, says restaurants pay Off Campus Access 10 percent of the sales from students with the Five Points Meal Plan, but she ex pects the business generated from the plan will cover the charge. Carolina Dining Services did not return phone calls. For more information and a full list of restaurants, go to www.5pointsmealplan.com or contact customer service at (800) 345-6126. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Towers CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “We found that students were moving off campus in their junior or senior years, and even sopho mores, to get apartment-style housing," Luna said. “They want ed a couple of things: kitchens, self-regulation. And that’s what South Quad turned out to be.” East Quad followed in 2001. Luna said the Quads, which will house 1,350 students once West Quad is completed, are the result of developing quality apartment style housing in a campus set ting, while maintaining a mar ketable price. USC Housing is supported by room and board fees, and receives no funding from state tax dollars. Luna said Housing has con ducted studies in recent years that indicate students who live on campus as freshmen have a higher rate of return to campus housing in their junior and se nior years and become more in volved in student life activities than most commuter students. He added that Housing’s data co incides with other national stud ies of campus housing. Housing’s goal is to house 50 percent of undergraduate stu dents on campus. Now, the cam pus houses about 46 percent, Luna said. He added that most universities comparable to USC house 20 to 30 percent. But Housing has some obstacles to clear before reaching its goal. It is seeking a way to accommodate the 298 freshmen placed in three area hotels because of an overflow in housing demand. Luna said the solution is to move students from McBryde Quad and South Tower to the Greek Village as soon as space be comes available, opening up those buildings for freshmen. Luna added that it’s possible Capstone House might be used to * accommodate larger-than-usual freshmen classes in the next few years. “We’ll not make any decision to take down housing before we know that we have enough to meet the demand of students and incoming freshmen,” Luna said. “This year has been kind of an in teresting study as to just how suc cessful USC was and really just how many years ahead we are of the goals we’ve set for ourselves.” Second-year math student Bruce Stoy, who lived in Douglas last school year, said he is glad to be out of there and into Capstone House. “It was definitely an experi m ence, one I won’t soon forget, but I definitely wouldn’t live there again if you paid me,” he said. Stoy was unhappy with the physical condition of the building, which he said resembles a prison from the outside. He found the bathrooms especially unsanitary. Luna said the Towers have lasted for the time they were built to withstand. 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