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purchase corporation more that
of fraternity housing. Fratemitie
needed capital.
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I By Donald B. 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
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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
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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
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/*?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.
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logy class chose to renovate this
ver, has a different idea.