The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 23, 1975, Image 1
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
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Law sch<
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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
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night.
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faculty resolution read. Fees I
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ision by for itself when you read it," F(
lucation sympathetic as I am for then
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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
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rorming the SPAT program.
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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
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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
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