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Since 1908
Officials push campus projects
Administration
suggests 3-year
maintenance,
renovations plan
BY KEVIN FELLNER
TllEliAMECOCK
USC administration officials
Friday continued their recom
mendations to the Board of
Trustees for initiating campus
maintenance and renovation pro
jects under a three-year plan.
The recommendations focused
on exterior improvements such as
repairing windows and roofs and
interior improvements such as
painting and carpeting.
“We’re trying to balance the
most critical needs of campus im
provement,” Chief Financial
Officer Rick Kelly told the
Building and Grounds Committee.
“We’re trying also to be sensitive
to campus disruption.”
The committee gave preliminary
approval to projects in excess of
$250,000 that included $575,000 for
McKissick Museum window re
placement; more than $1 million for
new roofs on the Russell House,
Rutledge College and DeSaussure
College; $1.2 million for improve
ments to the north side exterior of
the Russell House; $750,000 for din
ing service improvement in the
Russell House and Sidewalk Cafe;
more than $1 million for replacing
underground electrical infrastruc
ture; $435,000 in elevator upgrades
in classroom buildings; and $1.3
million for the renovation of 816
Henderson St.
The administration doesn’t
need the board’s approval for
grants totaling less than $250,000
and informed the board of several
such projects under the plan.
University architect Charlie
Jeffcoat emphasized that admin
istration officials are prioritizing
projects according to urgency.
“The roof structures on many
campus buildings are deteriorat
ing faster than we can keep up
with,” he said, adding that some
buildings have buckets to catch
leaking water on rainy
days. University Housing, a fi
nancially self-supporting entity,
will fund some residence hall
improvements.
Some trustees objected to the
renovation of 816 Henderson St., a
vacant building next to Gambrell
Hall, for the relocation of the
University 101 offices.
“I’m all for preserving old build
ings,” trustee Mark Buyck said,
but $1.3 million “seems like a lot
for this building.”
Kelly said historical signifi
cance would cause the university
to take special renovation pre
cautions, which would increase
the project’s cost. He said admin
istration officials would look into
the possibility of relocating the
structure.
Committee chairman Miles
Loadholt applauded the adminis
tration for recently completed
campus improvements. “The im
provements that have been done
♦ CAMPUS, SEE PAGE 3
Working the crowd
E PHOTOS BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK
Left: Florida fans react to a successful Gators play during
w Saturday’s football game against USC in the Williams-Brlce
l '* Stadium. Above: A Carolina fan taunts the opponents with a
spirited T-shirt. With the Gamecocks leading 16-7 at the
half, many thought the game might give USC a necessary
win for bowl-ellglbility. After a failed attempt at a two-point
conversion to tie the game, Carolina lost 24-22.
♦FOR THE FULL STORY, SEE PAGE 8
New SG boards
could continue
BY JESSICA FOSTER
THE IIAMKCOCK
Student Government President
Katie Dreiling said she plans on
introducing legislation to the
Student Senate that would make
the new student-run boards per
manent parts of SG.
Tne legisla
tion would re
quire future SG
presidents to
make sure the
Minority
Affairs, Student
Safety and
international
Student Affairs
boards are
staffed and
AmMinnirifT
When Dreiling ran for president
in the spring, she promised to cre
ate the student-run boards because
she felt they would increase stu
dent participation in SG.
This semester, these ideas be
came reality with the establish
ment of the three boards. Dreiling
“It’s beneficial to the
student body in that we
can do programming
that wouldn’t normally
come into existence,
like Diversity Week
YVONNE MILLER
MINORITY AFFAIRS DIRECTOR
said she is working on legislation
that would require the continuance
of these boards so that they “will al
ways be addressing student issues.”
The legislation includes guide
lines on how the chairperson of
each board and board members
will be chosen. Dreiling said the
boards would be organized so that
tnere are al
ways returning
members.
She is also
considering re
quiring that the
chairs of the
boards train for
a year as co
chairs. But the
SG president will
have the final
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tion of chairs to maintain the right
of SG presidents to choose cabinet
members.
Dreiling said the three boards
are all similar in their aim “to fig
ure out what bothers students and
♦ BOARDS, SEE PAGE 3
Renowned photographer to lecture at USC
BY VIVIENNE DECKER
THE GAMECOCK
World-renowned photogra
pher Peter Howe will give a lec
ture Monday at 2 p.m. in the
Russell House Theater.
Howe has worked as picture
editor for The New York Times
and director of photography for
LIFE magazine and is now pro
moting “Shooting Under Fire:
The World of the War
Photographer,” a book he edited.
The book is a compilation of
the work from ten of the world’s
best war photographers. Pictures
featured in the book are from all
over the world. Howe covered El
Salvador and Northern Ireland,
and the book also features pho
toeranhs taken
in Haiti,
Vietnam and
New York City
after the col
lapse of the
World Trade
center.
Other war photographers fea
tured in the book are Patrick
Chauvel, Philip Jones Griffiths,
Ron Haviv, Catherine Leroy, Don
McCullin, Susan Meiselas,
Howe’s book is a
compilation of the work
from ten of the world’s
best war photographers.
Christopher Morris, James
Natchtwey, Maggie Steber and
Laurent Van der Stockt. These
photographers put themselves
into war-torn
countries and
got as close to
the battle as
possible, risk
ing their own
lives to capture
pictures tnat
contain more words than books.
Carolina Ward, a first-year ad
vertising student, said the pic
tures speak for themselves.
“There are so many you could
stare at for a long time and just
"see the sadness, feel it captured,”
she said.
Many people question why
these photographers would want
to freeze such atrocious mo
ments in time. In these photos,
the photographers capture im
ages that are far removed from
normal elements. Since war is
not threatening Americans’
backyards, these photos allow us
to see what is going on in lands
with cultures completely differ
ent from ours.
♦ PHOTOGRAPHER, SEE PAGE2
PHOTOS BY DON MCCULLIN/COURTESY OF CONTACT PRESS IMAGES
Peter Howe’s “Shooting Under Fire: The World of
the War Photographer” Is a compilation of the work
of such world-famous photographers as Don
McCullln, whose photographs are featured above.
Howe will be promoting his book during a lecture on
Monday at the Russell House.
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