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Remember It's finally U.r III? 1 A N! T1 TI>Ml'U JJ IVIilflil I Gamecock Staff Writer After about 16 years of protest and indignation from USC students, Green Street will be temporarily closed because of a Columbia City Council decision loct The council voted 4 to 1 to temporarily close -Green from Sumter to Bull streets from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through ( Friday. The street will be closed on a trial basis for the spring semester ueguiiimg ui etuiy uttnuuiy. Council voted to hold a public hearing and conduct a study during that time to determine if the street should be closed permanently. STUDENT GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT Brad Steele ex plained the student senate presented a resolution for complete closing of Green Street to President James B. Holderman, 1 who sent a letter to the city council on behalf of the senate. Council agreed to close the street on a trial basis, pending their study. Councilman T. Patton Adams said the study and the temporary t ^ijras ^/xaHSN^HM W? ii'-1 BfSaBr gf L . g bb^HH Green St.? 'dosing! _1 ! _ II. ?1 !L1- 1 1 .1 1 closing are a piausiuie anu logical approach to a controversial issue." The study will be made to determine traffic patterns affected by the closing, he said. I Steele said, "Council responded well after seeing what a disaster j Green Street is during the day. I hope they will close it permanently." Steele added, "Council Kirk Finlay assured me that he would try to make the closing permanent." Holderman too is optimistic. "Chances are very good that they will make it permanent," he said. "But we must continue to convince the citv of the imnortance of this ^ ? 1 ? issue." ADAMS CLAIMED that keeping the street open during rush hours will limit problems with the shutdown. He said less traffic is using Green now and he said that he is "glad we are in a position to close the street temporarily. Hopefully we can arrive at a good solution for all sides." Council is willing to look at the issue objectively, according to him. The only councilman to vote i |V l HPf H M f against the measure, R.E.L. Freeman, said the public hearing should be held before any action is taken. Adams said the hearing would be open to both students and residents. p|li? gflllllpt ^ '(^ ' ^^BroBr ^fa^HM *i4?V Jf %(jiag-jro M l W, '>^ap^p | i Green Street was closed during a trial period of 45 days in October of 1974, but it was not reopened by either the student senate or the Columbia City Council In the last three years the Green reet issue has been discussed, monstrated and closed. When the street was opened luring that trial period, the tudents celebrated. A clrppt rvnrtv In shnw cnnnnrt or the street's closing was ponsored by the student governnenton Friday Oct. 18,1974. A live >and appeared, students danced ind the whole campus became a nass of partying, drinking people. But almost a year later the >artying turned to rioting and itudents closed Green Street hemselves. On October 14, 1975, a ten hour iemonstration was held to show student concern on the Green Street issue but it lead to the arrest of 18 persons by the University and Columbia City Police. Seventeen of the 18 persons, were arrested on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to public drunkenness in incidents stemming from the demonstration. The demonstration began at 4:30 p.m. when 30 student? began walking back and forth across Green Street. An hour later the police arrived to clear the street and the crowd of students which had grown to more than 200. And fifteen minutes later the first protestor was arrested. A demonstration was also held the next day but it was smaller and more peaceful. No arrests were made by police the next day. A survey about the Green Street issue was taken in November of 1976 and the results showed that 61.9 per cent of the students were in favor of closing the street. All of the pictures on this page were taken on Oct. 14, 1975. At that time, students demonstrated in favor of closing Green Street.