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THE VOLUME LXVI NO. 4 University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, ',S Board toremd By MICKEY TRIMARCHI Gamecock Staff Writer Fourteen students admitted to troversial Sept. 2 decision of the B4 remain in school, the Board decid However, the Board said that a dangers the accreditation of the U the 14 students will be asked to le TiE I4, three of which have dec probation until the end of the sem( faculty will decide whether they wi studies. The trustees said that if the stude they will be automatically admi Now established as the central issue in the law school con troversy, the ABA's certificate of accreditation rests in a plaque in Dean Robert W. Foster's office at the Law Center. Board's action draws meeting of law panel By BILL PRATT Gamecock Staff Writer A resolution concerning the decision by the Board of Trustees to allow 11 law stuwIents to remain on probationary status was passed Sunday afternoon b)y the Law School Steering Committee. Specifies of the res;olution were not released Sunday, but will be released t1 T y. The 'ommttee met for about an hour and a half in executive se'ssion Su: lay before deciding on the matter. Earlier Sunday, l1,aw School Dean Robert W. Foster discussed the possib)ility of sending ani American Bar Association (ABA) inspection team to studIy the Board's latest action with ABA legal education counsel .James P. White The committee's response by the Board's decision to allow 11 students Please See ABA. Page t Gamecock Staff I allows s i111 in L the USC Law School after a con )ard of Trustees, will be allowed to ed Saturday. such time that their presence en tw School or the entire University ave. ided not to enter school, will be on !ster, at which time the law school 11 be allowed to continue with their nts are forced to withdraw, however, tted to next year's SummerPre 'A 1. _.t The USC Board of Trustees decided Saturday the 14 students admitted to the Law School will be allowed to remain as long as their presence does not endanger the school's accreditation. Board Chairman T. Eston Marchant (below left) ad dressed a press conference after the meeting, and revealed the Board's decision. More photos, Page Five. Photo by Gene Gaillard tudents aw School Admission Trial Program (SPAT), or if the program is discontinued, they will be tested to determine their eligibility for the 1976 freshman law school class. BOARD CHAIRMAN T. Eston Marchant said the Board's resolution was guided by a report of the Law School's Academic Standing Com mittee--a report endorsed by Law School Dean Robert W. Foster. After a closed-door executive session, which lasted almost an hour. Marchant released a five-page statement outlining the Board's action. The resolution reads, in part: "The Board of Trustees directs that the fourteen students, identified by the Law School as being entitled to a measure of relief, be continued as probationary students in the Law School for the current fall term. at the end of which period the Law School itself will determine their fitness to continue as law students. Please See BOARD, Page 12 eamd icia.ff to by D-Wt