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I J, igSl JbM . South Carolina's Beat College Newspaper K/IOPICiQy Volume LXX, No. 5"7 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.Feb. 16, 19Q1 fniirl.Q c; wasn't By Tom Coyne Staff Writer USC football player Philip A. Ellis jr. wasn't at fault in the incident after the USCDuke football game which led to his conviction for two counts of simple assault, according to three girls who were in the car with Ellis during the fight. Ellis spent this past weekend in the Richland County Detention Center after pleading guilty to two counts of simple assault against Raymond and Larry Hudson. Marcy Edmunds, Ellen McLeod and Caroline Warr, who were in the car with Ellis the night of the incident, said Ellis' lawyer had asked them not to comment on the case until now. ELLIS usually rode back to the Roost from Williams-Brice Stadium on the team bus, but that night he had asked permission from Coach Jim Carlen to ride home with Edmunds, his girlfriend. Ellis was driving McLeod's car when the Hudson car approached at an angle and came within a few inches of the car. "Ellen told Caroline to tell him (Hudson) net to hit the car," Edmunds said. "He yelled he can ram the hell out of our car ; 1 4 ^ K?nK inciiranpo UUIl S VVIIttt lie [ittjrs auv.ii iu^ii nuiunuw, for." Blacks d By Andrew Qart>er Staff Writer Advances made during the peak of tl movement have deteriorated in recent years black USC law student speaking at the Blacl Thursday. Larry Colleton was one of four Black Student Association members participating ii black issues as a part of Black Observanc< The deterioration of blacks' efforts may be growing tendency to compete against each against society in general, Colleton said. "BLACKS CANNOT aspire as a whole unle as individuals," he said. ? ? m ff If Ueneral &tuciies cu Midlands 1 handle U S By Megan sexton Staff Writer Midlands Technical College would have no trouble accommodating extra students if USC's two-year General Studies programs were eliminated, according to Robert Grigsby, president of Midlands TEC. ' - * " " 1 A Ul?. USC IS appealing 10 me utjneiai the Commission on Higher Education's recommendation that General Studies' secretarial science and institutional administration programs be eliminated. The commission also suggested the university submit a plan to end five other two-year occupational degree programs in the College of General Studies. GIIIGSBY said students could be ac comodated at anv of the three Midlands TEC campuses ? Harbison, Airport or Belt Line. He said between 150 and 160 students are enrolled in secretarial science programs al all three campuses now. "The hotel anc motel management programs will be read) to go by September 1982," Grigsby said. Students now enrolled in General Studies associate degree programs would b< allowed to graduate from USC. "The onl) students we would take in would be neu students who applied to TEC," Grigsbj said. ay Ellis ? l i. aL iduu TWO MEN got out of the back seat and Larry got out of the driver's seat. Edmunds said the three of them began fighting with Ellis. McLeod said Raymond was still sitting in the car. The fight moved to the passenger side of the Hudson car, McLeod said, and Raymond got out of the car and approached the fight. Ellis was swinging wildly trying to break loose from the three men, McLeod said, and his hand hit Raymond's jaw. causing him to stumble and lean against his car. McLeod said at this point Hudson was still standing. Edmunds said that during the fight Larry Hudson grabbed Ellis by the groin and that was when Ellis stuck his thumb in Hudson's pvp to cet him awav. MCLEOD SAID that until Feb. 9 they had been unable to tell their side of the story and now that they could, nobody wanted to listen. McLeod said, 44 Anybody who thinks Phil is guilty obviously doesn't know him." Edmunds said Ellis agreed to plead guilty to simple assault to end the whole ordeal. 44What male wouldn't get upset if he were in a car with his girlfriend and two other girls and a thing like this happened?" Edmunds said. ! USCUSSIS A major problem facin representation in the state le civil rights student Tanya Lewis. , according to a The SC. General Assembl k Issues Forum the district reapportionmer because it will mean more bl American Law 1 a discussion of "BLACKS MUST becom 2 Month. representatives we do have because of their deserve she said. other instead of '-?* st?de"t Beverly Pr cerned with the negative lm All media give black child ss they go ahead thf,^hould. str'^e t0156 ,as a< "The networks rarely sl^ 'EC could C students GKIGSBY wouldn't comment on what Midlands TEC would do if the five other General Studies programs were eliminated until he found out what USC was going to do. "I believe in the three-tier system of education," Grigsby said. That system includes senior universities offering baccalaureate degrees, state colleges providing teacher education and technical schools offering occupational degrees. "I don't see any reason for two schools in the same area to offer the same programs," Grigsby said. KATHY DUNNING of Midlands TEC's Public Information Office said General Studies programs don't have "a tremendous , amount of students." Midlands TEC has an . enrollment of 6,000 students a quarter, she said. The General Studies enrollment for the , tall 1980 semester was 1,913. [ Dunning said the two-year programs siffotwi in n^npral Studies should be offered f at the state's 16 technical colleges only. "South Carolina can't afford to operate . two-year programs at USC and Midlands ? TEC," she said. j Dunning said the controversy should be , kept between the Legislature and USC , "We'll do whatever they tell us to do," she said. ^ x^anav.;.. ? ? r: r a SBRKHHSKEB -X-X--:-' '. j^HfJjr, ^ /Irg?'i:t"; ;V'".:(L^'-t-i:'-'-i^;^ BB v liBHiI jpMiiiiafl C/SC students Caroline Warr, Marcy Edrnw in the car with Phil Ellis during the incident < game that led to Ellis' conviction on two sin by Chip Lowell) sues at 101 g blacks today is a lack of blacks in a major role s (Legislature, according to law they do, the shows only 1 y doesn't want to go through with LAW STUDENT Rene it called for by the 1980 census for blacks. She said pi lack representation, Lewis said, geared for the majority primary responsibility 1 4 tk/. im e more vocai anu suppun UlC JJI CTUUHllllcllii-ij uiavn uu in order to get the attention we if black colleges are ii system, there will be a 1 uitt said blacks should be con- that will be allowed into age of black people in the media, said. ren a false perspective of what "The end result of in lults, Pruitt said. like taking a good stronj low TV programs which depict dumping in too much cr< i|^l?iM| -- -- "'x.\-> ~:i~? -V^~ ^r"" :-;lajii.ilM|KB^HBBBI^HBB|EHB|iB|BBBfra|ji|^^:::::*:7T,:'*^WWiBMB Any of Midlands Technical College's commodate students turned away from i programs are eliminated, according to Ho president. (Photo by John Parnell) Hi -Ki p ^ PP^i fds and Ellen McLeod were HO^_n.,lfa tnnibiatt ETflCJf (fFI7 i/v/v/ ip/e assauft charges. (Photo rum uch as a doctor or lawyer, and when ast a couple of weeks," she said. ;e Gaters discussed higher education a? ^ eaominanuy wnue umvcisiuca <mr rather than for the minority, so the of educating blacks is left to th< ititutions. ncorporated into the white university eduction in the number of minorities higher education institutions, Gaters tegrating the two systems would be I cup of black coffee and ruining it by ^am/'she said. three campuses can acUSC if two General Studies bert Grigsby, Midlands TEC