Trustees Have ‘No Confidence’ in Elzey

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina State University trustees gave a no confidence vote to suspended President Thomas Elzey less than a week after a judge said they could not fire him because they were all about to be fired. The 5-2 vote Tuesday came at the end of a telephone meeting and after the board rejected a motion to adjourn without taking any action. Trustee Sidney Evering II told his colleagues the vote was pointless because of the judge’s ruling in a lawsuit by Elzey that he couldn’t be fired and would not help students at the financially troubled schools. There was no indication what the no confidence vote means for Elzey. Trustees met the same day the House voted to fire all of them. The Senate has already approved a slightly different plan.