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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
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• 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.
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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.
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