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THE VOL. LXVI No. 13 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Thursday, October 16, 1975 41RW 0 Ao Po# ' Stu 'CI< From Staff Rel A 10-hour d4 concern about t arrest of 18 pers and Columbia strat on was st 4 According to Monday's dem "peaceful prote, Green Street cc "The whole th students who wa Sansbury said. of hand." Eighteen per students , were from disorderly incidents sten stration. No ari when Sansbury walking back at pedestrian cros ficulty for cars Fifty other sti protest from be dormitory wind Campus polic off Green Streel Street at 4:55 p.1 -USC directorc Communication Key said that USC's police, m from Green Str PhO dents' pr )se Green iorts While the cording to 'monstration to show student president he Green Street issue led to the became fr: ons Monday night by University protesting : City Police. A similar demon- City . Polic aged Tuesday without incident. "There i. Student Sen. Danny Sansbury, and block , Dnstration was planned as a time," said it" on the issues surrounding the "authen. ntroversy. student bod: ing was initiated by concerned It belongs t( nted to have a peaceful protest," fact we hav "It's just that the crowd got out Before C Green Stree sons, 17 of whom are USC 200 person arrested on charges ranging footballs an conduct to public drunkeness in Around ming from Monday's demon- arrived to c rests were made Tuesday night. the pedestr ronstrations began at 4:30 p.m. the crowd I 'and about 30 others began police gui id forth across the Green Street demonstrat swalk to "create as much dif- "Oeth as they do for the students." pen ths idents gathered to watch the Athsslt th sides of Green Street and inproved our e, anticipating trouble, blocked gettneverr traffic from Sumter to Pickens first arrest mn., according to George A. Key, sophomore f Public Safety, Security and structing sMarvin D. Harrelson, chief of shoes kHn ade the decision to divert traffic antke Richard Plowden Is wrestled to the ground, hand cuffed aad finally loaded into the paddy wagon by Columbia and Campus police during Monday night's demon stration on Green Street. Eighteen persons were arrested during the ten hour ws by Mark Alxandw protest. otes t: 5 Street' street was still open to traffic, ac Dr. James B. Campbell, vice for Student Affairs, one woman ightened when confronted by the students. She called the Columbia e, who decided to clear the street. no way to peacefully demonstrate i public thoroughfare at the same Columbia Police Chief William R. "The street does not belong to the y of the University of South Carolina. > the city and state. That's the basic e to keep in the back of our minds " Dlumbia police officially reopened t, the size of the crowd grew to about ;, some of whom were throwing d Frisbees about. :20 p.m. campus and city police lear the street. Campus police lined ian crosswalk in an attempt to hold )ack. Meanwhile, city and campus ded traffic through about 100 ors. Officers were heard saying. road, or go to jail." time Sansbury, who sensed the of trouble, said to the crowd, "We point. This is not worth anybody ested." 15 minutes later, at 5:45 p.m., the was made. Robert A. Dobson, a USC was arrested for allegedly ob traffic as he bent down to tie his was charged with disorderly conduct to Columbia City Jail. Please See Green St. Page 10