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Parking CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 to allow for up to 15 minutes more before class just to find a parking spot,” he continued. “For some that makes well over an hour com mute, and it puts undue stress on them as students.” Asma Baig, an incoming first year student in chemistry and eco nomics, is planning to park around campus despite her lack of a pass. “[Parking Services] said there would probably be un claimed spaces,” she said, “and I’m hoping I get one of those.” Foil said he’s used the shuttle system before, “but more out of boredom than as a mode of trans portation.” “My friends and I have ridden the shuttle for conversation,0! he said, °oobecause it’s a semi-private place that’s quiet and there are no interruptions of people getting on or off.” Foil said that, working as a desk attendant at Preston, he’d recommended the shuttle. “The suggestion was shot down every time,” he said, “because of the in frequency of the shuttle stops and unreliability of the shuttles.” Additionally, many students have off-campus business inac cessible by university trans portation. Foil said that, al though he had a 21-meal plan last year, he also worked two jobs he might not be able to hold down _____. without personal transportation. Baig said if she fails to find a parking space, she’ll be forced to quit her job. For Foil, a working student paying for his housing and edu cation himself, quitting is not an option. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu ...» ■p.--.■.-----.-.;.-.p. PHOTO BY MELISSA WALLACE/THE GAMECOCK Work has begun on a parking garage across from East Quad. Student’s death still unexplained BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK Investigators expect toxicol ogy reports will explain why a USC Honors College student died after collapsing near LeConte College on the morning of July 22. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said he expects test results for Edmund Foley, 21, to come back this week. “We’re hoping that’ll show something,” he said. However, Watts said, there is about a five percent chance the reports won’t help investigators reach a conclusion. Foley, a Lexington resident, died July 22 after he was trans ported to Baptist Medical Center. Witnesses said he col lapsed on the LeConte walkway" for no apparent.reason and be gan turning red and gasping for breath. Watts said autopsy results were inconclusive: “Nothing was significant in the autopsy that would show a cause of death. . Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@givm.sc.edu STROM; SUMMER I &!! Mon. - Fri. 6:00 a.m. -11:00 p.m. Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 40:00 p.m. Sun. 12:00 p.m. - To^OO p.m. BIATT: SUMMER I & I! < Mbg. - Fri. 6:00 a.m. -10:00 p.m. Sat. 143:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m. Sun. 12:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. .. . *