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VN K VOL. LXV NO. 2 UNIVERS1'7Y OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA. S.C. 2920IJ Eeptembe9,17 Insurc A suit charging the University insurance plan with fraud has become bogged down in legal technicalities and trial delays. In April a lawyer representing insurance agent Joe Pearce and Reliance In surance Co. said, "I think this suit will be resolved on its merits and not technicalities." Now that same firm is arguing the class action suit, filed by USC law student George Frooks, does not constitute a true class. Timothy Cleveland, representative for Frooks' lawyers, said Pearce and the insurance company are arguing there is a "defect in Harley To medi From sta Professor and assistant o North Dakota School of Me( has been named dean of ti School of Medicine. Harley's appointment w USC President William F recommendations from a with the task of finding a replaces Dr. William Nels4 South Carolina's second m The long and controversia school in Columbia was app when the South Carolina G $391,000 in operating costs f operation. The issue has continually from both the Board of Trus school in Charlestion and gubernatorial condidates, Ravenel and Jim Edwards. Both have said they will Legislature's dicision, how other programs they would 1 medicine. The money from the legis] by a 5.8 million grant from t (VA) for the renovation of Garners Ferry Road. The VA has also pledged operating the school over a The VA is building a ne present facility and the old I unnamed USCMedicalSchoo said they are unsure as to a OntInned 01 nce suji the parties. They are att acking the validity of plantiff, whether a class exists. That is a technicality," he said. Frooks' $900,000 suit charges the University of South Carolina; Charles Witten, dean for student affairs; Pearce; and Reliance Insurance Co.. with "misrepresentation and deceitful practice, through fraudulent inducement and breach of contract." Frooks is suing individually and on the behalf of all university students with the student insurance plan. Cleveland said the class action should hold up. He is more concerned with the university and Witten's named ical post ff reports lean at the University of Licine, Dr. John B. Harley, ie newly established USC as announced Thursday by [. Patterson, after -hearing search committee charged permanent dean. Harley 3n Adams 'Smith as dean of edical school. Il issue of a second medical irently settled last summer eneral Assembly approved or the school's first year of met with strong opposition tees at the existing medical from South Caroina's two Charlestonians Charles D. not attempt to block the ever, both said they have ike to work on with regardto lature will be supplemented he Veterans Admmnistration the present VA Hospital on $20 million for the cost of seven year period. w hospital adjacent to its ospital will serve as the yet I. University officials have vhen actual construction of a Page 3 bogged 'The quicker we dis points, the quicke the merits of claim of sovereign immunity. He expected the point to be argued some time this month, but Absistant State Attorney General Donnie Myers said Sunday the hearing won't occur until the first of nest year. "If he (Myers) is trying to a . in d iffk pose of preliminary r we can argue he case.' ..Timothy Cleveland delay we will object. The quicker we dispose of preliminary points, the quicker we can argue the merits of the case. He (Myers) was to schedule the hearing before Judge John Grimball," Cleveland said. Witten is classified as a state Ui other, the result L last couple of day i, t seems, It's the phtgapr bably working isuetdt ragaroundhis camera bugs. G run late ach re.aI. ulties agency employe and entitled to defense by the attorney general, according to Myers. The attorney general will only defend the university and Witten. The controversy began last spring when Frooks went to the infirmary after hurting his hand playing volleyball. He had purchased the $25 student hospitalization insurance at registration and assumed it would pay his infirmary bill. He was shocked to find the policy did not pay for any service rendered by the Student Health Center and decided to investigate why. SIevitabe. While the rain of thie a has put an effective damper on m areand campus, warm weather steru and with It the Inevitable amec..k staf. photo by R.....n