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By Rachel Waterhouse Two USC students said they were early Friday morning after an ii restaurant. The students, ages 19 and 20, saic minor injuries at Baptist Medical Cer The students asked not to be idenl police are searching for suspects in th THE INCIDENT began between Friday at Burger King, 1211 College the students. The injured students and a third U! at the restaurant's drive-in windov behind them became impatient ai students said. The students exchanj and drove away from the restaurant, The students said the men's car fol Street. The car's occupants started of Russell House, the students said. The first shot hit the foot of one of u/ac hancinc out nf the window, the " "M"D o -J shot went through the back window c glass and striking another student in to the students. THAT'S WHEN the driver (of th< what was happening," said one of th After the second shot, the studer driving and the other car left them. rI of a Columbia policeman near the I they said. The policeman called an ambul wounded students to the hospital, at the policeman to file a report, accorc THE STUDENT who was hit i stitches for the wound and had m; glass of the car window falling in on k r : ''. -:vr ^^^''5- .:' vF-; roSjiafjwPiWHBBwKBHBBw BHilfMiHi ' " -v'"":: ::'v One of USC's five Shuttlecocks f fMursiiicj on Greene Street. Authori the service began. ? 1 A. ? - tified, saying Columbia 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. St., according to one of C1P ctnHpnt u;prp in a car / when men in the car id started yelling, the led words with the men lowed them onto Greene shooting almost in front the students whose leg students said. The next )f the car, shattering the i the shoulder, according e students' car) realized i students. its said, they continued 'hey caught the attention ^ickens Street overpass, ' "IS car The shootin ance that took the two "I felt so id the driver stayed with off," one sti ling to the students. tried to get < Doctors ; n the shoulder received the foot in any small cuts from the the bullet,1 him, the students said. more dam lip3plps|pi!PHSl iicks up a person beside the Williams Brie ties said drivers now receive better trail ot on G ??? I ^ jStoaB vx-x " 4QI 's back windshield was shattered by gu g, which happened in front of Russell H mething hit my foot, but I thought it i Lident said. "I didn't realize I had been out of the car, and 1 couldn't walk on my at Baptist Medical decided to leave th definitely unless complications occur, which is lodged near a nerve, could pos< age. The victim's foot is wrapped an Shuttlecock drive year than last, sa new student coord ? v^tom a%* J "vx"" Drivers are trair and on an obstacle said both training r "I just want to ei are trained and art Lawrence Steedly Shuttlecock admii the driver training change in the Shut Last year the Friday, he said. Columoia (leiay u "Please be pati< Photo hy Richard lilwin e College of TI1K SHI TT niny than when $100,000 per year Tkw. O.wl.tol 1 I IV UUU^V I I I IK. nfire early Friday morning, according ouse, injured two of the students. "icocheted crutches. hit until I "The people at the h( foot.' from a ,22caJiber pist e bullet in said. Removing The students said the >ibly cause well enough to give a (1 he is on compact, either a Volks s c\/Qtom arin 9 oy UlUII! MMW rove driver s k tenance *rs are better trained this sa' ' id Richard Furtick, the Mone; inator of the Shuttlecock univers said led in both the classroom Each course, Furtick said. He 0i 100 t net hods are new. buses < nphasize that our drivers miles p ;safe," Furtick said. Furti F TRANSPORTATION ride th< , who is also new to the The listration this year, said people ; course is the only major Steedlj tlecock system this year. people shuttles had seven ac- PeoPle AT I siuuenis wcic jujui*jv4 ! > said. the ni em, conceived in 1978 by respon iolderman, is designed to ^ urtic rn student parking spaces, ^ Sixt< ' on the periphery of the ur tic lildings. a . r and ti ast one shuttle runs from nicked dnight Monday through throup Com i shuttle runs only during v^hfcl 7:30 a.m. I o y: :<o a.m. ann 3 p.m. Monday through e ? every 10 to lf> minutes H C id every 20 to 2!> minutes # -ksa'd sludei the schedule varies 'on^e use traffic problems in le buses. * t?nt w ith us," he said theate Pan*' 1 ? U, LKCOCKS cost about vears. to operate, Steedly ui ludes bus rental, main- j[Li'<,ra Photo by Mike lisher to three USC students. )spital said the bullet probably came ol but couldn't be sure." one student y could not see the men behind them description but said the car was a wagen Rabbii or a Toyota. iDts Drooram f d . gasoline, and drivers saiartt^. he y budgeted for the buses comes fi rm ity parking fees, tines and tickets. h< of the five shuttles trave: <;:i average 0 120 miles a da\. Sieouly said. The iverage three and one-ha .f u five er gallon, he said ick said an average ol 2.00 > people 1 shuttle every day four small shuttles each seat 24 and have a maximum capacity of 30, i said. The large shuttles hold 40 seated and at capacity can hold 60 e u i H 'IKST, there were only two buses, but imber is up to five because the ise to the system has been tfreat, k said. ien of the 19 drivers are students , k said. Isosaid anything lust on a Shuttlecock irneci in 10 U)e Moior rnoi can oe I up from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday [h Friday. [plaints about the Shuttlecock should ected to the Transportation Motor e Pool, Steedly said related story page ih'w * )IUC SC s Mature Students Program helps 'its older than the IS to 24 yea? old deal with the demands of college hje six trhshop Theatre opens Columbia's fall r season with "Cyrano do Hergcrut 0 j>(_ .s rnosi sucessjui .spori in rvcrm basoball, is rebuilding aftc twe "ufiw Collect' World Scru-y op n / i?o Pn i/r* i S