University of South Carolina Scholar Commons June 2011 6-15-2011 The aiD ly Gamecock, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011 University of South Carolina, Office oftude S nt Media Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/gamecock_2011_jun Recommended Citation University of South Carolina, Office of Student Media, "The aiD ly Gamecock, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011" (2011). June. 2. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/gamecock_2011_jun/2 This Newspaper is brought to you by the 2011 at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in June by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Lyrics by Todd Thibaud WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011 Willis Glassgow / The Associated Press PAGE 2 The Daily Gamecock ● WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011 Tuition, salary increases proposed 1.5 percent raise for eligible faculty, are our troops,” USC President Harris Pastides will increase by 4 percent . warned the board at a budget retreat last Thursday. In addition to losing 6 percent in state staff on agenda for board meeting The proposed raise composes $2.3 million of the appropriations, the university will also not receive budget. If approved, this will go into effect beginning $32 million in stimulus money that it had previously Mikelle Street Oct. 1. been receiving. The money had been going toward [email protected] For students, the university will propose a 3.9 nonrecurring expenses. percent increase in tuition, raising in-state tuition There will also be a 4 percent increase in the cost of USC’s administration will propose a 3.9 percent from $4,893 to $5,084 per semester and out-of-state housing and a 2.37 percent increase in the cost of meal tuition increase for undergraduate students at its from $12,681 to $13,176. Tuition was increased by 6.9 plans, according to the proposal. Columbia campus and some salary increases for percent last year. USC is also proposing $4.2 million in expenditures faculty and staff members at a board of trustees Pastides said though the university lost 6 percent to hire 40 to 50 new faculty members and $2 million meeting Friday. in state appropriations during this year’s legislative toward personnel for USC Connect, which is USC’s The proposal includes a 1.5 percent salary raise for session, this increase in tuition will not and is not submission for the Quality Enhancement Plan. the lowest paid 75 percent of USC employees who aimed at covering that defi cit. These new hires are being brought on in an attempt “meet or exceed expectations” for their respective The USC School of Pharmacy will receive a 5 to maintain quality in the services USC provides, said jobs. The raise must be approved by the board. percent tuition increase while the School of Medicine Ed Walton, the university’s chief fi nancial offi cer. The proposal comes less than two months after a will receive a 6 percent increase. report in The Daily Gamecock revealed USC gave Other South Carolina schools have increased tuition $2.7 million extra in “supplements” to its highest similar to USC. Clemson University announced that earning employees in 2010. it will raise tuition by 3.8 percent, Coastal Carolina Comments on this story? “We have to be prepared to defend this, but these will increase by 4.58 percent and South Carolina State Visit: dailygamecock.com/news Plans for 70,000-square-foot Alumni Center in progress Current executive director financial contributions conspired In addition to its role as a home base million, a sum that will be covered by to bring it to fruition. The center for alumni visiting campus and a venue “a significant fundraising campaign,” of Alumni Association represents a new effort to maintain the for reunions and other events, the according to a university press release. leaves to head new project university’s competitiveness nationally Alumni Center will contain a Lifelong Roughly half of the estimated sum and to welcome alumni back to campus. Learning Center where alumni can has been collected so far from major Thad Moore “Virtually every major university in interact with faculty and attend gifts. Donations from such contributors [email protected] the country has such a building,” Cole seminars and symposia. There will also are still being sought after, and the said. be a satellite career center for alumni university plans to ask alumni for Marsha Cole , the current executive She explained that USC’S colleagues looking to network or update their additional gifts soon. director of the Carolina Alumni in the SEC also have similar facilities résumés. Though it may be some time before Association , will be stepping down from that have either already been completed Initial plans for the structure have ground is broken, Cole will soon be her position in order to design, fi nance or are currently being planned. been drawn by local architecture fi rm working full-time on the project, and and construct a new Alumni Center, Cole says that it’s important that The Boudreaux Group, which has Amy Stone, former president of the the University the alumni feel like they are a part worked extensively with USC in the Carolina Alumni Association, will serve announced of USC’s campus due to how much past on projects including the West as intern director starting July 1, while Friday. depends on them. The university looks (Green) Quad and the Strom Thurmond a national search for a new executive The idea for to alumni for fi nancial gifts and other Wellness and Fitness Center . director is conducted. the center was contributions including “serving on The Alumni Association has not yet conceived over committees and giving their advice and chosen a fi nal architect to take on the a decade ago, helping to recruit students,” said Cole. project and hopes to have hired one by according to The 70,000-square-foot center, the end of the year. Other details on the Cole, though which will be owned and operated time line for the center’s construction only now has a by the Alumni Association, will be and its ultimate completion date remain “perfect storm,” constructed in the vicinity of Innovista unavailable. of sorts, of — Cole declined to provide a more Based on these initial plans, however, administrative specific location — and will house a Cole estimates that the Alumni Comments on this story? s u p p o r t a n d COLE broad suite of services to alumni. Center will cost approximately $30 Visit: dailygamecock.com/news State of Play: E3 FOLLOW US Mix writer Aaron Jenkins breaks on TWITTER down the plethora of information from the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo. “Infamous 2” Aaron Jenkins re- views the latest video game release from developer Sucker- punch, “Infamous 2.” thegamecock Wednesday 90° 70° EXTENDED FORECAST • PAGE 8 Housing meets requirements for returning students Freshmen, upperclassmen, many reasons why people come back to select transfers to receive rooms campus, too,” he said. Fourth-year geography student Brian Davidson is a student who decided to Derek Legette stay on campus. He said that living on [email protected] campus is convenient for him. “I stay there mainly for the Good news for all returning students convenience,” Davidson said. “Living seeking on-campus housing: There is in Preston (Residential College) gives no waiting list for this fall. me the convenience factor of having According to University Housing, all everything readily available.” 1,896 returning students who requested Housing is making progress this to stay on campus found a spot to live. summer in regard to placements as well “We were able to offer everyone a bed as construction. on campus,” said Joe Fortune , associate “We’re just about done with the director for Housing Administration freshman placements,“ Fortune said. and Undergraduate Assignments . With more than 4,500 freshman Still, not everyone wanted to take the applications, including 300 of them still offer up. being worked on, housing is now taking “There are still 79 students on that time to go through hall and roommate list who are holding out for apartments,” choices. Fortune said. “We offered them suite- “We could place the 300 today if we style and traditional-style living, and wanted to, but we want to honor their they basically said, ‘No. Thanks, but choices. One thing I’ve learned in this no thanks. I would rather wait for an job, and what parents and students have apartment,’” he said. Courtney Price / THE DAILY GAMECOCK told me, is that roommates are what University Housing has been Renovations for Patterson Hall are in the fi nal stages. The building will open its doors again matter most,” he said. “We really try to in contact with those 79 students Saturday, Aug. 13, and 544 female students have already been assigned to the residential hall. give that some special attention.” frequently in order to remind them that The 229 transfer student applicants they are still on the list and to fi nd out have been guaranteed housing if they if they’ve made alternate arrangements. are members of the Bridge Program, “They really want an apartment, so which was created in 2007 to assist they’re just going to wait and see what students at South Carolina technical happens,” Fortune said. “But we’re schools in transitioning to USC. letting them know that if they haven’t Totally in reach Transfer students from other USC received an apartment by late June or system campuses are also guaranteed early July, they really want to think housing. about making other arrangements.” “The people that are in jeopardy Typically, returning students of not receiving housing are those eventually move and stay off campus.