Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Bar Q ng Service * 'leasers **r Street prop* nrofipn iprl to trustee p By CATHERINE THRIFT Gamecock Staff Writer Citing it as still a vital and "alive" the Green Street Study Committee, closing the street at a meeting of I mittee Monday. The paper, prepared by Alford and! Association (SGA) attorney general, i wanting the street closed and made IIU1I. The primary purpose of Monday's i was to seek support from the Board < campaign to close the street. SGA President Steve Hill opened progress made in the movement to < Russell House. "The events leading up to this meet council approved a compromise plan median down the center," said Hill. "When school started, there were r< appeared to disagree with the plan,' 1 4 ? , 4 I M ? A neia 10 determine siuaeni opinion, anc Hill said that an article in The Ga reception given thehearing touched which prompted the SGA to take furth A second hearing was held, and peti We now have 4,500 signatures "Idealistically, we would like to ha^ Hill also said that the Student Senat purpose of funding several programs i Anotner major recommendation 11 hiring a firm to critique the Cam) Green Street should remain open d during the peak traffic hours of 4-7 "On this basis alone, Campco r Street," Alfordsaid. "ButtheCampc During a 1974 trial closing othei comodate the Green Street traffic flc affected, according to the paper. Th? rocultc /if fho cturlu fVio * ""V VOMIVO VA WAV OVUUJ UIU1VHIV UIU was to re-orient traffic and slightly d per hour," said Alford. Alford also pointed out that the < pedestrian traffic at its heaviest poii Pedestrian travel there is expected tc the Thomas Cooper Library and the completed. "Student activity is just no longer Alford said. "What we need now is close Green Street and convert the a into a mall, which would not only enha be more safe." Brown also emphasized the need for t faculty, administration and anyone "We have no viabilitv without s< Trustees," he said. Trustee Chairman T. Eston Mar committee to reach the faculty, sect who cut the grass," to get widespre "Let the trustees see the studi< available," he said. Marchant stated probably be quickly adopted by the Ik for it." The trustees set Saturday, Nov. 8, a endorsement of the proposal. Another recommendation made by support of the merchants of Five Poir Monday, Nov. 3, at the Top of Cai municating on a professional level 01 Alford said. If efforts with the Five Points n mended beginning a selective-buyi merchants who oppose the plan to clos "A great many students support th they do so on foot, so closmg Green S to meir Dusiness," said tsrown. Also, it has never been proved thai Street,'* he said. "Anyone who is in going to take Green Street in the first \ The selective buying recommendal mnct nf trnolAAC nroeont iiivm* vc. ?iav % MWVW0 p? voviii. "A boycott would be inappropriate among those who might have helped j to threaten the merchants," said Trus Brown said that the recommendati< paper, but agreed with Hill that it wou The trustees advised the student support, possibly in the form of a refe the city council with one plan. . [>sals t Qfll&l JLJBL TUJL 'I t* issue; Barry Alford, chairman of , presented a position paper on \ the Student-Trustee Liaison ComSteve Brown, Student Government summarized the SGA's reasons for several recommendations for acneeting, as set forth by the paper, of Trustees, and assistance in the the meeting by reviewing recent close Green Street in front of the ting began this summer when city to widen ureen street and build a "percussions, because the students ' he said. "A public hearing was 1 was poorly attended." mecock denouncing the apathetic off two nights of demonstrations, er action. tions began circulating Oct. 18. on the petitions, Hill said. re 10,000." e has appropriated $2,500 "for the to aid in our campaign." nade at the meeting was that of yco Study of 1974, which said that lue to adverse affects on traffic p.m. ecommended not closing Green o report is full of ambiguities." streets that would have to aciw did not appear to be adversely > t the effect of closing Green Street ecrease speeds two-to-three-miles > "ampco study failed to measure it. in front of the Russell House. $ > increase further next year, when addition to the Russell House are concentrated in the Horseshoe,'* a concentrated, unified effort to trea in front of the Russell House tnce the beauty of the campus, but V i concerted effort from students, who uses Green Street. >me support from the Board of / VllCtllV I ^opuiiuuu Kjy KMJL glllg UIC irity forces and "even the people ad support. 7 es. Make all the information I that this way the proposal would >ard, saying, "I know I would vote ? V s a meeting time for voting on the ti. ? z uic pdpci L'uiiL'cnieu securing me its. A dinner meeting will be held rolina for the purpose of "comnr desire to close Green Street,'* ' . . lerchants fail, the paper recomng campaign, boycotting those e the street. ;X le merchants in Five Points, and treet would make little difference t their business depends on Green a hurry to get across town isn't >lace." t <i A tion was met with reservation by i and would create hard feelings fou. It may hurt rather than help A William S RrnrlrinatAn \ on to boycott would remain in the Id only be used as a last resort. s to continue soliciting student ? rendum or plebiscite and present ,:c-: 4 ;. > jj'K.imvv ni(V1| 'jj