Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Z __.________ _ _ ..__ ____ ____ __ _____ ... ____ -- .- —___l£.vU INSIDE 1 VIEWPOINTS The failures of ‘Fahrenheit’ Allyson Bird critiques prejudices in Moore’s latest film. PAGE 5 THE MIX T.N.T. ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ booms with unique characters and comedy. PAGE 6 SPORTS Off to H-town Dunte Robinson signs contract with theTexans. PAGE 9 INDEX Comics and Crossword 8 Classifieds ll Horoscopes8 Online Poll _ 5 Quote of the Day 6 USC Police Report 3 Student collapses on Horseshoe BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK A USC Honors College student died Thursday morning after col lapsing on the brick walkway near f^Conte College. Edmund Foley, 21, was trans ported to Baptist Medical Center at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday, but doc tors were unable to revive him. Curtis Suffridge, a worker for Landscaping Services, was spread ing fire ant granules by LeConte College when he saw Foley run up to a friend. “They chitchatted it seemed for a few minutes,” Suffridge said. He looked down at his work, and when he turned back toward the stu dents, Foley was prone on the side walk. He thought nothing of it at first, he said, but it soon became clear the student was in trouble. “I heard the victim sort of moan and take a really deep gulp of air,” Suffridge said. The other student, unidentified in police reports, yelled for help, and Suffridge rushed over to where Foley lay. He watched as the stricken student’s face reddened then turned purple. At 10:16 a.m., Suffridge called First Responders and reported that a man had collapsed on the Leconte walkway. He stayed with Foley un til help arrived, and he said within a matter of minutes the student’s skin felt clammy and his pupils were fixed and staring. USCPD Officer Robert Baker was en route to the scene less than a minute after he heard the call over the-radio. Officer Don Pardue was parked on Sumter Street when he heard the dispatch. In his haste to ^ - respond, he backed his patrol car into a • brick wall near the Longstreet Annex, damaging the rear bumper. Baker and Pardue arrived on the ♦ STUDENT, SEE PAGE 2 Democrats assemble, tout Kerry’s heroism BY DAVID ESPO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — Democrats assailed President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war Tuesday night and painted a vivid portrait of John Kerry as a decorated war hero. “He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line,” Teresa Heinz Kerry told the party’s nation al convention. More than 900 soldiers have been killed and nearly 6,000 wound ed in “this misguided war in Iraq,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. “The administration has alien ated longtime allies. Instead of mak ing America more secure, they have made us less so,” Kennedy said. Kerry was in Virginia — a U.S. warship as a campaign backdrop — as he headed toward a waterborne entrance to the convention city on Wednesday. His vice presidential running mate, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, was already in town, an ticipating his appearance before the delegates and a prime-time televi sion audience on Wednesday night. In the convention keynote ad dress, Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama described Kerry as a Vietnam War hero who has long made “tough choices when easier ones were available.” “When we send our young men and women intoltarm’s way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they’re going,” he said in prepared remarks. Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota pursued the same two-pronged approach, hailing Kerry as a Vietnam veteran who showed bravery under fire while he faulted Bush’s approach to national security. At the same time, he said of the Bush administration, “We reject the claim that we can’t afford to provide our troops with access to affordable health care. When our soldiers do right by America, we must do right by them,” according to remarks pre pared for delivery. ♦ DNC, SEE PAGE 2 PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 5en. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and his wife, Victoria, wave to the crowd during the Democratic National Convention.