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vS0^ South Carolina's Best College Newspaper \A/eClneSClay Volume LXX, No. 55 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Feb. 11, 19B1 Ellis will u/p.(?kf?n Phil Ellis (80) comes up to make a hit on a Duke running back in action this past season. EN/s was sentenced to spend a weekend in Jail after ?i <- 1* -i fjtuaximy yvruy iu auttfjitt a&sauti unargtts stemming from an altercation in the State Fairgrounds parking iot after the Duke game. University losin because of fault By Donald B. Weatherbee equivalency students are AuitttntN?wiE(iH(H enrolled at USC's main USC will lose $484,950 in campus. USC's projected state funds because military enrollment was 20,840 -- an students at Fort Jackson overstatement of 150 caused were counted in the by the university's inclusion Columbia ramnus full-time of the militarv students. equivalency count, ac- According to Vaughn, the cording to State Auditor state appropriations act does Edgar A. Vaughn. not provide for military A state auditor's report, students. approved yesterday by the ..!T WAS in agreement state Budget and Control with USC's position that they Board, recommended an should be counted, but additional $2.5 million to be there's no nrovision for them distributed among several jn the appropriations act,' South Carolina colleges and Vaughn said. universities that had under- He said it was a "slip-up' estimated in their full-time when the military students equivalency counts. at the main campus were nol AT THE same time, the counted, because other USC report took funds away from campuses were allowed lasi t rn/i ^4^. 11 *4 UOVy uvcausc ut urc uvci- year iu iiiciuuc niiiiuii j estimation in its count. students in their full-time According to the auditor's equivalency enrollmem count, 20,690 full-time figures. SLED official tc By Tom Coyne ?i?tt writer Lt. Carl Stokes, director of the State Law Enforcement Division's justice information system, will announce today his appointment as lecturer for the College of Criminal Justice. Stokes will continue to serve as special security adviser to USC President James B. Holderman, a position he has held since Nov. 21. Steve Beckham, special assistant to Holderman, said Stokes will become more involved in campus security problems J ? U 111 Jdll By Tom Coyne Staff Writer USC football player Philip A. Ellis Jr. was sentenced Monday to serve 48 hours in the Richland County Detention Center by Blythewood Magistrate \llen F. Sloan. Sloan denied Ellis' request to work with retarded boys at the Babcock Center rather than spend a weekend in jail. Ellis was sentenced for assaulting Ray Hudson, 52, and his son Larry, 29, after the USC-Duke football game in October. ELLIS WAS originally charged with two counts of aggravated assault, but one count was reduced to simple assault in a preliminary hearing Jan. 29. r* 1 1 V I f _ 1 11 V ? 1 ? A. A. _1 I 11 1 ttonaia J. vaugnn,ine nuasons attorney, saiu lie caueu Ellis', attorney J. Edward "Punky" Holler, Feb. 3 and offered to drop the grievance against USC if Ellis would appear before Sloan on Friday and plead guilty to two counts of simple assault. Another Hudson son said his family was willing to accept a reduced charge because the elder Hudson is in such poor health he cannot take another three or four months of trials. THE ELDER Hudson said he is still on medication and under a doctor's care for injuries he received in the alter canon. "I'm not in the best shape in the world," Hudson said. "I got down in pretty bad shape. I'm still having problemslight headaches, trouble with my left side. I lose control of it sometimes," he said. Vaughn said the Hudsons will sue Ellis and the university for an unspecified amount of money in the next few months. "We'll have to sum up the damages resulting from the incident before we determine the pnst " Vnuahn said "Wp will sue anybody we feel is responsible." "I'M VERY disappointed with this statement at this time," Holler said. He said he thought Ellis' two days in prison would have "not as much effect as he (Ellis) could have had on the young men at the Babcock Center." Holler would not allow Ellis to comment on the sentence. "I imagine he (Ellis) is very upset. I would be if I were in his position," Holler said Holler said Ellis' notoriety as an athlete has been a gfunds . Vaughn said an amend- jggg| ment to the appropriations in the Legislature, and will allow military students to be included in full-time equivalency counts. VAUGHN told the Budget i 1 and Control Board, "In all mm fairness, military students ||| - . shnnlH have been included in the 1980-81 act." VHHHHBHn After the board meeting, J? Vaughn said that when the Ifl amendment goes before the | joint appropriations com- ?BB^ij mittee it "should be passed Hr to treat the Columbia - - .A , s jnm campus as fairly as oiner ' Vaughn said thecomptroiler _ , _fl t general will freeze $484,950 Gov. Dick Riley tak ' in funds to the university, meeting held Tuesd 5 but does not expect the providing additional t action to hinder the universities. (Photo i university. > serve as univen "HE (STOKES) will also be assigned duties to work wit the President's Office to continue to improve the security an safety of the university," Beckham said. BECKHAM ALSO said Stokes will work closely wit Marvin Harrelson, chief of Campus Police, althoug UarrolcAn mill ? rn 1A C irmr?trioi ?< V-1UVII TT III VUlllllIWV OHJA I V lOlllg V/UIM^US r UlltC. Stokes* duties will be broader than those of George Ke> who resigned from his 12-year post as Holderman's specif] assistant for public safety, security and communication Jan. 15. mm . Jul "nw Jm * i ?" 1 f /... |HB|^p .:| ^w^m/^mmF USC defensive end Rhil Ellis 4'detriment" to the case. .. . He said the news media failed to report that at the time of the incident, Hudson's blood alcohol content was twice the level indicating intoxication. Holler also said the media failed to note Richland County Magistrate William Womble's com ments on the media notoriety. "We wanted him (Ellis) to know that he was in the wrong and that you can't go around beating up peoDle. We wanted him punished, but we left it up to the iud^e to do that " Hudson said. He said there had been no deal made on what the sentence for Ellis would be. hJE Igp vr:j; L? 1 wwp^^^njp^^ es notes at the state Budget and Control Board ]ay. The board approved a state auditor's report funds for several South Carolina colleges and ty Stan Hawkins) sity lecturer h BESIDES AI>VIS1NG Holderman on security problems at d the Columbia campus, Stokes will also advise the president on security matters for USC's nine regional campuses. Stokes' appointment comes as another step in Holderman s h plan to improve campus security. The shake-up in USC's h security system began last June when a special committee released a report critical of Campus Police. (1 Stokes has served with SLED for 27 years and for the past s three years, has been SLED's university liaison on security matters relating to visits of foreign officials.