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VOL. LXVI NO. 1s University of South Carlena, Colea%, S.C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1975 SGA draws By TOM COONEY and GEORGE MORRIS Gamecock Staff Writers See Related Story, Page Five Columbia City Councilman R.E.L. Freeman said Tuesday that the Columbia City Council has no intention of ever 'closing Green Street, even it the Five Points Merchants Association should endorse the closing. "We have already gone through this and we don't intend to close Green," Freeman said. "They (USC Students. have been trying to close Green for 15 years but we've made a final decision. Everybody should accept it (Council's decision not to close Green Street) and go on." FREEMAN'S COMMENTS came after the USC Student Government Association (SGA) held a public hearing Monday af ternoon to inform students of SGA's course of action to close Green Street, to make clear the present Green Street situation and to get student opinion on the issue. In essence, SGA plans to talk to the rive Points merchants and obtain the support of the Five Points Merchants Association, isolate city council members and try to persuade them to change their minds on the issue and to go to the Board of Trustees and gain their backing. Should the Five Points merchants not back the move to close the street, SGA will attempt to conduct a selective buying campaign, which would amount to With Comedi crowd i Mondal Law sch< removes By BILL PRATT Gamecock Staff Writer Fourteen students, admitted to law s< the USC Board of Trustees Sept. removed from school by a vote of the lai faculty Wednesday. The faculty's action came after a dec the Council of the Section of Legal Et and Admissions of the America Association (ABA) that the Board's act a violation of ABA standards, and t school's faculty should resolve the ma USC President William H. Patte responsible for removing the student school, according to Dean Robert W. ] Patterson will write each student, in them of the decision. Patterson coulc reached Wednesday night to say when I notice will be given. The 14 students will be readmitted to Summer Pre-Admission Trial prora plans; Five F An estimated 150 persons attended the heari boycotting those merchant's stores who do not support the closing. Monday's hearing was conducted by Barry Alford, a SGA cabinet member, secretary of community relations and chairman of the special SGA committee that is working for the closing. Alford opened the hearing by telling the audience "as far as the University is concerned, the proposal to widen Green is zilch," his ever-present American fli Ian Bob Hope spins a few one Df about 45,000 at Williams Br night. )o1 facult 14 studei faculty resolution read. Fees I :hool by semester will be repaid to the s 0, were Re-payment of book fees v school questioned, however. "The thing (the faculty's res ision by for itself when you read it," F( lucation sympathetic as I am for then n B3ar responsibilityr of the law centei ion was Those students suspended fr< hat the upset over the decision. tter. "I think they're unfair. They rson is consideration for us as indi ts from .Smithi said. Smith was the sti Potr raised questions about the gradi rorming the SPAT program. i[not be "WE HAVE been to classes he final half the semester and have beei by our professors. I think they the 1976 us in school, "Smith added. "W< im. the Plas Se. oints boyco1 Gamecock stahf P bys Vt Mg. meaning the plan has been abandoned. THE PLAN to widen Green Street by 20 feet and construct a 20-foot wide median, developed this summer, brought an uproar of disapproval from the student body. Alford also said SGA is now pushing for the closing of Green Street from Sumter to Bull Streets; previously, SGA sought the closing from Sumter to Pickens. He then went on to discuss the role of the ig in hand, -liners to a ice Stadium nits >aid for the fall tudents in full. is still being olution) speaks >ster said. "As i, it is not the im school were don't have any viduals," Karl ident who first ng procedure in for more than i acknowledged should have left e've really been BA. Page Two t weighed Five Points merchants in the closing of Green Street. "As far as we know, every time it (Green Street closing) was brought before City Council, the Five Points Merchants Association said they didn't want it." Student Sen. Dave Wilsford said he believes that the merchants association is the "single political force to keep Green Street open." He also said that a number of people, including USC President William H. Patterson-, have stated that the traffic study report done last fall by Campco Inc. of Rock Hill during the 45-day trial closing of Green Street is so am biguous that the report can be used to support either side of the closing issue. Merchants in Five Points have pointed to the report as a reason for not c sing the street. ALFORD SAID that of the ap proximately 69 Five Points merchants contacted so far, 28 favor the closing, 23 oppose it and five remained neutral. If SGA's "soft-sell campaign" fails to gain the support of those merchants now opposing theclosing,then SGA will employ the selective-buying plan, according to Alford. He added that SGA would first like to get petitions signed by 10,000 to 12,000 students stating if a merchant is not in favor of the closing, his store will not be patronized by USC students. "If we get this and then the Five Points Merchants Association says it Please See STREET, Page II