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©ie ©amecock t Wednesday, December 6 • Trespassing, drunkenness, 6122 Gar ners Ferry Road, 11 p.m. Complainant reported that James E. Thrash was ob served at the Circle K at the incident location. Thrash has been told previous ly not to come to the incident location and was advised to leave the property, but he refused to do so. Thrash had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and person, had slurred speech and was unsteady on his feet. • Attempted armed robbery of an indi vidual, 900 Beltline Blvd, 7:45 p.m. Tim othy Key said that while walking home from work, an unknown male approached and presented a handgun. Key fled on foot The subject ran him down and a brief struggle ensued. The victim and the sus pect then broke off the fight and fled in opposite directions. • Burglary, grand larceny, recovery of property, 2705 Edgewood Ave., 12:15 am. Jennifer Shannon, upon arrival at in cident location, observed subjects, two unknown males, exiting her home with listed items. Clothes: $700. Audio: $400. VCR: $50. Estimated damage: $200. The VCR was recovered. • Petit larceny, 2521 School House Road, 5:30 p.m. Timothy Isaac reported that upon returning to incident location, he observed his vehicle’s license plate miss ing. Estimated value: $12. Wednesday, December 6 ■ Assistance Rendered, 1528 Greene St. £oe Voulgarelis said she woke up shak ng and not feeling well. USCPD first on scene, followed by EMS, which trans >orted her to Baptist Medical Hospital. ■ Assistance rendered, National Advoca cy Center, room 239. Kurt Deile com plained of a sharp pain in his side. USCPD first responded to the scene, and EMS lat er arrived and transported him to Baptist Medical Hospital. • Illegal use of telephone, McClintock. Unidentified victim said someone has been calling her room and hanging up. The reporting officer was R. Osborne. • Suspicious activity, Carolina Mall. An unidentified black female said that an un known black male asked her if she want ed to see his private parts. Victim then said the above subject then exited the area. < ♦ . gj • Auto break-in. Parking lot, 105 South Marion St. Calvin Tucker said un known person (s) entered his vehicle by i Drying open driver’s side window, items taken from the car include a Pio teer CD Player, Zapco amplifier, two 12 nch woofers, fossil wallet with $30 cash nside, VISA credit card, Structure cred t card, Toboggan leather boots, credit inion checkbook and victim’s birth :ertificate. The reporting officer was C. damson and the estimated value of the terns stolen from Tucker’s Honda Ac :ord is $1,895. ■ Assisting other agency, Blossom and \ssembly streets. While on routine pa rol reporting officer E. Pereira heard vhat he thought to be an automobile ac :ident around Blossom Street. Pereira hen found the accident on the comer of Assembly and Blossom streets. He spoke vith the victim in the car accident that aid he was “OK” but the red Mustang that hit him had left the scene heading north on Assembly Street. Pereira and Officer Aspedon located the subject ve hicle in the Wendy’s parking lot on College Street. The two officers searched >1 the area and saw subject later identified as Mark Causey, 19, trying to flee the scene by jumping over'a fence. The two officers pulled Causey down from the high fence and detained him until CPD arrived at the scene. Tuesday, December 5 • Larceny of perfume, Cliff Apartments. Chin Tan said person (s) unknown did by unknown means removed four bottles of perfume from the above location. The four bottles included a bottle of Boss, Channel, DNG and Pressure valued at $180. -J| Investigation from page 1 Rhodes and Allman. Rhodes declined comment on the incident Wednesday, but lashed out a segment of that day’s “Crime Report,” which is adapted directly from USCPD written reports. “It’s pretty much none of your business, and a lot of the shit you print ed wasn’t true and I’m not going to tell you anything,” Rhodes told a Gamecock reporter before hanging up. Greek Life Coordinator Carl John son, who was at the scene when the police arrived, said he couldn’t com ment on the incident. “That’s under investigation,” John son said. “I’m not at liberty to com ment.” Allman, Barnes and several wit nesses listed on the police report didn’t return messages seeking comment. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Playboy from page 1 “The only negative comment that I have heard from students is that we were superficial in the people we chose.” But three parents formally complained about the altered Playboy appearing in the high school newspaper. One called the school principal, one wrote a letter to The Renaissance news paper and the last wrote a letter to edi tor to The State newspaper. The State ran the letter Wednesday. The following day, a staff writer wrote about the incident in what Renaissance adviser Amy Medlock said is, at the very least, unbalanced. “As a mother, it goes against every thing I believe,” Greta Bickley told The State. Bickley has a 14-year-old daughter at Dutch Fork. “This district holds itself up as being excellent in terms of academics, and this is the best they could come up with,” Bick ley said later in the article. Medlock, who oversees the produc tion of the newspaper, said she got ap proval from the school’s principal. Then she scanned the cover of the mag azine at home and brought it to school on a Zip disk. Medlock said she thought there was nothing particularly revealing about the picture, as it was simply a photo of a mod el in a jean jacket and jean shorts holding a laptop. “I even cropped out the bottom half of the cover so you couldn’t see the short shorts she was wearing,” Medlock said. After The State article was written, it was then put on the Associated Press wire for other papers around the country to use. Medlock said that some of her fam ily members read it in the Augusta, Ga., newspaper. “My grandparents, father and mem bers of my grandparents’ church read it in Augusta, and they knew it was me they were talking about,” Medlock said. “If nothing else, this entire incident has been a great lesson for my journalism classes with regard to ethics, news value, the el ements of news and the power of an edi tor’s pen.” The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com. I-: Student wins prestigious scholarship by Amanda Silva The Gamecock South Carolina Honors College stu dent Nicholas Miller has been named USC’s first recipient of the British Mar- ' shall Scholarship. Miller plans to pursue a master’s de gree in international relations at Oxford University or the University of Warwick. When Miller received the call Nov. 16 from the British consulate’s office in Atlanta, he said he couldn’t understand at first why they were congratulating him. “I didn’t believe it,” he said. “I was just really shocked for about five days.” However, those who know and have worked with Miller said they were not surprised. “Nicholas Miller is not only brilliant, cosmopolitan, and energetic, but also in tellectually polished and humane,” said Scott Gwara, a USC associate professor of English, who is the university’s Mar shall Scholarship adviser and a former Marshall Scholar. “Nicholas represents what our university stands for: intellec tual achievement, service and leader ship.” USC President John Palms said Miller’s prestigious award is an example of the academic excellence of USC Students. “Nicholas Miller has competed against the nation’s most outstanding col lege students and emerged a winner in one of the country’s most rigorous com petitions,” Palms said. "USC students in creasingly are among the top contenders for the nation’s most competitive acad emic honors, including the Rhodes Schol arship and the Truman, Goldwater and National Science Foundation awards.” In addition to conquering a chal lenging academic schedule, Miller has been a literacy volunteer in Columbia and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. He is a Palmet to Fellow and National Merit Fmalist and received the Robert C. Byrd Schol arship and Callahan Scholarship. "During his years at USC, Nicholas has compiled an impressive record of academic achievement and service that the university is proud of and that will serve him well in his future endeavors," Palms said. Although some might wonder how a student from a small town became so enthralled with international studies, Miller said his education in Camden’s public schools was instrumental in help ing him fulfill his dreams. “People in small towns dream the same way everyone else does,” he said. Though some might have questioned his rationale more than four years ago, when he turned down prestigious schools such as Stanford University and the Uni versity of Virginia to attend USC, Miller said he knows the choice to attend South Carolina’s flagship university was the right one. “I’m really glad that I came here,” Miller said. “I had the kind of personal attention in the Honors College tliat even small liberal arts colleges don’t offer. My professors have given a great deal of their time to me personally and profession- ! ally.” Miller said that being the first per son at USC to receive the award isn’t what makes winning the award special. “The way this affects me most is it's wonderful to know that after four, actu ally five, years of college, I know what I will be doing for the next few years. It’s a great sense of security,” he said. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmaiLcom. ! | Real nationwide long distance included. 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