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[email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 VOL. 108, NO. 29 ● SINCE 1908 RUSSELL HOUSE WOES Student union beyond capacity Part I of III Limited space stifl es space. Event and meeting reservations for the Fall Russell House director Kim McMahon said organizations, activities 2012 semester will be distributed via a series of four that the lottery system has managed to grant at lottery sessions. Each session yields the possibility of least one reservation to each student organization Kathryn Kranjc one small and one large event slot per organization. that has requested space. Forty-two organizations
[email protected] Last spring, the Russell House granted requests for participated in the lottery, but with over 300 student 17 ballroom events , 15 theater events and 20 weekly organizations on campus, McMahon knows that meeting slots to different student organizations that many groups don’t stand a chance. EDITOR’S NOTE requested space for Fall 2011. These bookings are “We’re already not meeting needs ..