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VOL*LXVI NO. Valversity of South Carolina, Columa, S.C. MONDAY, OCTOBER , 1975 N1o, this isn't a George Wallace rally. It's only the supporters of he Ole Miss Rebels trying to generatq a little support fe their team. Ole Miss fans found little to yell abood, a s USC's Gamecocks eked out a 35-29 win. Former-SGA o merchant grox By TOM COONEY Ganlecock Staff Writer After a majority of merchants in the Five Points area had signed Student Government Association (SGA) petitions supporting a closing of Green Street, the Five Points Merchants Association told City Council last spring that merchants did not favor the closing, according to Russell Putnam, a former SGA official. THE COUNCIL reportedly was against the closing by .a 3-2 margin before the Merchants Association contacted the Council. However, after the By Gas A cral ban glin mei aisl A Will gan at tato tick toxi Prot thoe B) eact mea turn hea poel - stop A4 Stal (SLI mor moti bets thel tell are, say fficial cites ip's influence association informed the City Council that the Five Points merchants did not support a closing of Green Street, according to Putnam. N.R. Miller, manager of Bicycle Center of Columbia -in Five Points and a member of the mer chants association, said he was never contacted by the association with regard to his opinion about a closing of Green Street. He added that he believes that no formal decision was ever made by the amociation concerning Green Street. "I think it was just some secretary's idea" to say Please See MERCHANTS, Page Three BILLY COX Isecock Staff Writer stir somewhere in the stands, heads ,ing in the direction of the distur ce, people standing to catch a ipse of the action, and finally, two i with radios lead another down theA a and disappear below. rrests for public drunkeness at r kams-Brice Stadium during football C ies are, if not common occurrences, east familiar sights to most spec rs. While the statement on each lead et clearly reads, "The use of in eating liquors in this Stadium (is) The Virgini kibited by State Law," inevitably, Homecoming e who wish to drink usually do. . atmosphere RCAUSE SECURITY guards watch the scoreboa i gate, many people resort to tactful messages ren spres of slipping alcohol through the illegalities of stiles, such as thermos bottles, Head cheerlea vy coats, bulky sweaters and to bat at ti tetbooks. And very rarely are people students about ped at the gate. lierstin cording to Capt. Leon Gasque of the regarding the e Law Enforcement Division- several fans. iCD), though, his officers are- doing by parents of 3 e than merely going through the general imprea ons. ,.games was di 'his is a joint effort' of operation obnoxious behi 'een SLED, the Highway Patrol, and that security JSC police," Gasque saId. "I can't much, sugges mnyone exactly how many officers away from the ieployed at any,one time, but I wili was remedied that they are equally deployed "THE ARRI aghout the stadium."- the last se1 2 students found guilty From staff reports Two. USC students were found guilty of disorderly conduct charges stemming from last Monday night's Green Street protest Wednesday. Charges against three other students were dropped by Judge Thomas E. Lydon Jr. THE REMAINING 13, with the exception of the one juvenile arrested, requested trials by jury. Dates for the trials have not been set. Douglas H. Baker and John W. Pack- were both found guilty of disorderly conduct and were fined $37.50, which had been the amount of bail. Baker said Sunday he may appeal his case. He will meet with Lydon at 10 a.m. Monday to discuss this possibility. "I'M PRETTY upset over the result," he said. "I don't think his attitude was reasonable.Ithought he was trying to hurry things up." Baker refused to elaborate, saying "There are a few details I will reveal later to the press after I talk with Lydon." At Wednesday's trial, Baker produced two witnesses who said that Baker was not participating in the demonstration, but on his way to a meeting of the National Science Foundation in the Physical Science Center. The witnesses are Baker's mother, Laura F. Baker, and Steve Hunt. COLUMBIA POLICE LA. J.L. Keith testified that Baker was not only present at the demonstration but played an active role. Pack does not plan to to appeal his conviction. Two Coloumbia policemen testified that Pack a leader of the demonstration. Pack said he was "hollering at the pigs" most of the evening. But, he said, he was walking up and down the sidewalk when he was arrested. CHARGES WERE dropped agamt William A. Mesce, Michael H. Honeycutt and David M. Nichols. acknowledged, though refusing to pin point the basis for the decline. "yo never can tell, though. One game we might arrest three and the next game we might get ten." At any rate, while a considerable ttle niopamount of drinking is in fact going on, .ttle,tnepe is an air of distrust among students regarding the positioning of security l c aofficers. "hese are just my personal I e cafelns,sadone student, "but I rey think the cops are turning their headt when it comes to the big boys," referring to a n ab to politicians, scholarship donors, alumni .n the liaw. game was, of course, the "I've sat on the other side before, and game, and with the party they raise as much hell as the students," surrounding the campus, said another. "But the students are the trd constantly flashed ones they always crack down on." rnding the fans about the Gasque sees it differently. "Wherever alcoholic consumption, the law is broken,"he said, "we enforce der Sammy Wauford ent it, no matter who breaks the law. And," mes, also, warning the he added, there is no double standard. th l. eWe haeman way of teleing wo is a te week, severald Irtea lunn h s' stadruunn bhsavionf wrig,telqo lwd li CSThe ers rtenainly overn arle teasesadmr ongrcilden,avethe acknotsweredge usth- ring thpn stroedde torudeand poba tbly i for the ideclinte. seao. vo.Oewmn el ng ever was atell gamegh. One gaeond measues haeasemtoo harret treee on stuenet "Wenw Le htsewuds ay oue upby2 ointng is rat going o stadium untregrdn the piuto etectdaotinting unes yecut officerIts. "seaejstm"eroa ~SThhav deceso oeaeligs," ae tstuet "ul gaesll fe er, aqe theoao. a uhhlla h suet,