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If state lawmakers try to replace S.C. State University's board with interim trustees, accreditation of the troubled school could be in jeopardy, the university's accrediting commission said this week.

There is some sweet irony about two state representatives from Orangeburg, both Democrats, going toe-to-toe over a bill to restructure South Carolina State University's Board of Trustees.

Two trustees stepped down from their positions saying the school's community deserves better than what the board is giving.

State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter knows that her proposal to bring more state-level control of South Carolina's only public historically black university will be controversial, even incendiary in some circles.