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W?athert> , ^ AMteMM Maws Edhor Sociology Prof. Elwood Carlson was a.m. Social Demography class Monda interrupted with a "phone message" for The "phone message" story was crea the student out of class and into the ai County Sheriff's Department deputies \ on bad check charges. However, the student wasn't in class at Earlier this semester, deputies disn speech class to arrest a graduate sti written bad checks. That student was lat ! 'Cat Lady to protect By Tom Coyne Staff Writer Charlotte Sulton is an 87-year-old wic hard of hearing and 95 percent bl Commonly known as the "Cat Lady," J spends her days caring for her U collection of cats. Sulton lives in a bug-infested hous? J West Columbia. Her yard is covered i j piles of asphalt and overgrown shrubs, , there is a strange odor about her house doesn't seem to notice. After reading an article about Cat Lad The Columbia Record, Charles Osbo College of General Studies sociology c decided to renovate her house as a good |/1 VJWV. But Sulton has a different idea. "I just want people to leave me aloi Sulton said. "I've lived here all my life a think I should be free to choose where how I die." SULTON wants no work done on her h< because she is afraid the disturbance kill her cats. "People tell me what the ".V ;/ ; : - y : '5: " iS-IvX-Xi / * ' ?|j':|^r?^^T. <: f\i -'- ^_,, r r rjri "-"-j.L | E^ji- p | i $0,:.&;'/^ "C'^l^^aiily ^ HttSk ib/a (above) was bought by ( r ten years ago for possible da s, however, have been unable i n visit do ? part of Long According tAfli>htna hi. enforcemeni w?v."?b "? custody of y when a secretary courtesy to a female student. mission of th ted as a way to ease Before th *ms of two Richland asked the p< vaiting to arrest her man of the w Shin said t the time. student out < lpted a theater and officers acci ident who also had Ward er located in another "i didn't u * just war feline fri< going to do to my kittycats ]pt thorn r?r?nr?o horo T {ncl ,vv VV?IBV IIV* V. A jUUJt alone," the small, white-hai woman said, ind. While the students are she Lady's house, the class pla ir8e in a pup tent set up in her ; hasn't complied. The class g in have Cat Lady's yai with fumigated yesterday, but and off," Sulton said. s^e "I don't breathe that well r * * nave 10 go to tne emergent ly *n my heart's no good," she a ,rn's the bugs before, and I can lass now i don't need any help." Iwiil "THE LAST time I got n paper everyone started tell lie," were ffoina to do for rn?? - nn ndl said. "If everyone would and alone, I'd be fine." 08born said he still plara juse house. A social worker ti will Sulton to allow the renovati y're only concern was for her ca Sr Pf monev to oav t there ever sinc< Ql units for fratern known as the 4 'B , December 1975. free to begin lool housing, Bruntoi UNDER theb housing constru' wmm The fraternities P8^ ^ *** /*?u 5 lartu ronntnicHftn ?vw vefopment "What we ne yo raise the was to have soro said. "We w esn't net street Theater and arrested. ; to Paul Ward, USC legal counse t agencies have a right to interrupt < a student-suspect. However, Ward the universitv the officers mruaIIv te department chairman first, e three officers went to Carlson's ermission of Dr. Ken Shin, who is i xnology department. when they asked his permission of class, he was unsure of what to d< ised Shin of obstructing justice, so St uderstand what basis he had for acc Bndsjll ired, determined Jp yardLBut Sulton was supposed to ^ f j| d and house * "I scared them and sometimes I 1.HMI;" i :y room because * jflj get rid of them I ny picture in the r|3j|. !ng me what they t askingSulton ||f Ijllj just leave me , renovate the ied to convince USC studen oris, but Sulton's West Co/un is. me f i *b m uld v rhou rasa K. Weaver tr< N?ws Editor r?f? rcn ? v.?j ????_ uv 11 aici luuca iuu cuuugii ^ heir part of proposed off- th. acilities in the early 1970s, otj ame "bogged down" in the ay Council and has remained j said a USC official who ^ nal proposal. mi lilding individual residence ?ir ity and sorority houses was mi a memo dated Nov. 9, 1970, unton, USC vice president ^ This option, commonly runton Proposal," has been __ P" iiuuicu in many ways uvci ^ runton said. d of Trustees approved the ing proposal in theory in and fraternity leaders were ^ dng for a way to finance the . fQ1 ISaid. t?rr rmrfi-nnnrnupW nrnrvwal thp i pay 75 percent of the total ction costs by selling bonds. de t would be responsible for ar lutining /25 percent before--W] ild begin, iminton said. eded from the fraternities le money up front,'' Brunton bo eren't talking about a J 1 i siuaent j obstructing justicc il, local law called the universi class to take Ward advised Sh I said, as a Law enforcemer ask the per- suspect as a last re "Disrupting clas i class they ward said. "All fir icting chair- There is no forr forcement official to take the matter will be dis o. One of the meeting Thursday, tin consulted "It is still an issu what other alterna using me of time the matter wil m ^ tMIM^l ' TRI BTir >ts in Charles Osborn's socio ibia house. The owner, ho we LQLO e paid sinq ;r - 'ous amount, just a small peri Vbout three or four fraternities ire aole to come up with the money with 5 help of their national headquarters. The ler fraternities just didn't have the money aila "."hesaid. In a document presented to the board by a le-member Fraternity Housing Comittee, the housing proposal was termed easonable and practical" and "eminently workable" by Chi Psi, Kappa ;ma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu and ta Beta Tau fraternities. rhe thing that slowed the proposal at that ini, according to Branton, *as''argument thin IFC." 'The question that arose was whether the uncil should allow some of the frats to irt the move off campus or wait until all of i fraternities could raise enough capital * the construction costs," Brunton said, 'he members got bogged down in that idea d they've been bogged down ever since." THE LAND earmarked for the velopment of fraternity housing was the ea bounded by Bull, Marion, Heyward and haley streets, owned by. the university's ad ^#loo*nent pornnratinn Carnlinn search and Development Corp. had ught the land in the Wheeler Hill area in im Frats, pmgm 3 suspect i," Shin said. "I ignored the comment and ty legal council for advice." in to let the officers take the suspect, it officers only enter a classroom to take a sort, Ward said. is is usually their second or third resort," st attempts are made at the residence." nal university policy concerning law ens taking students out of class, but the cussea at a Campus Security Committee Ward said. e. The committee will be asked to consider itives they (police) have. This is the first il be discussed." Ward said. ml llsl ! ^b * logy class chose to renovate this ver, has a different idea.