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A streaker sprints down the track at Williams-Brice Stadium during
a football scrimmage in early August.
Naked man sprints
through cafeteria
Clad only in sneakers,
helmet, streaker
startles lunch crowd
Stephen Fastenau
NEWS EDITOR
A man created a minor uproar
on Chicken Finger Wednesday
when he raced through the
Russell House wearing nothing
but a football helmet and a pair
of tennis shoes.
Witnesses say the man
entered from the Grand Market
Place from the patio entrance
and weaved his way around
several tables before making a
hasty exit.
According to the incident
report, filed by a USC police
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Ryan Holt, a white male
between the ages of 18 and 20
entered the building wearing a
white football helmet and
white tennis shoes and ran
through the Grand Market
Place cradling a football.
The description of the man
matched that of a streaker who
made his way through Williams
Brice Stadium during an August
football scrimmage. That
streaker was also wearing a
football helmet and tennis shoes.
Starting quarterback Blake
Mitchell, who watched the
streaker make his mad dash on
Wednesday, said he thought the
man had entered from the
entrance “over by the ATMs.”
In August, a naked man
entered Williams-Brice
Stadium during one of the
Gamecocks’ preseason
scrimmages. The man made
several laps around the stadium
and exited before authorities
could apprehend him.
Rumors circulated Thursday
that the streaker was spotted
running through a classroom
while an exam was being taken,
and that other students, also
wearing football helmets, were
filming the scene with video
cameras.
Other unconfirmed reports
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Ticket crackdown
At Gamecock football
games, officials to scrutinize
student ticket numbers
Justin Chapura
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Students will encounter longer lines
entering Williams-Brice Stadium on
Saturday as USC’s athletics department
implements a system to prevent non
students from entering the student
section.
Security will be located at the four
lower-level entrance portals inside the
student section, which stretches from
section 22 in the east stand to section 34
in the north stand. Students sitting in
certain sections can enter the stadium
only through the portals designated by
the new rules.
The new enforcement stems from
USC’s game against Central Florida two
weeks ago, when reports surfaced of
non-students entering the student area,
overcrowding the sections and forcing
security to turn students away from
entering their section.
“From personal experience, I found
the situation chaotic,” said Student
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After a chaotic home game against Central Florida, athletics officials will
require students to sit in assigned seats.
Anti-war mom brings message to Five Points park
Cindy Sheehan, protesters
rail against Iraq war,
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GinaUasselli
STAFF WRITER
The “Bring Them Home Now”
tour, a movement led by activist Cindy
Sheehan, made a stop in Columbia’s
Martin Luther King Jr. Park
Wednesday afternoon to drum up
anti-war support.
1 he rally began at 6 p.m. with
music by local band Stillhouse, which
played classic protest songs to a crowd
of nearly 200 people.
“ This isn’t your typical hippie anti
war protest. We’re just a lot of average
people whove been affected by the
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war. It stretches across all lines,” said
Dante Zappala, whose organization
Gold Star Families for Peace is
spearheading the anti-war movement.
Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son
Casey was killed in Iraq, was joined
outside Five Points by other grieving
parents.
“In the beginning I believed in this
war, but then my baby got killed. I’ve
lost all respect for President Bush, who
I thought was a good and moral man.
I’ve changed my mind,” said one
woman.
About 10 speakers represented four
anti-war groups Wednesday, including
Gold Star Families for Peace, Military
Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans
Against the War and Veterans for
Peace.
Members from each group spoke
about personal experiences and
feelings about the war in Iraq.
Many also spoke about Sheehan and
how the statement she made when she
decided to sit outside of President
Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, until
he talked to her gave them the courage
to speak out as well.
“We heard someone call Cindy
Sheehan a traitor and packed our
bags,” said Julie
Cuniglio of the Gold Star Families
for Peace organization about the
decision to join Sheehan in Texas.
Sheehan, who co-founded Gold Star
Families for Peace, said she began the
organization when she realized many
families lost loved ones in the war.
“We might as well have an
organization to come together and
help,” Sheehan said. “I’ve been
overwhelmed by the support.”
Members of other organizations see
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Jessica Munday /THE GAMECOCK
Supporters voiced their opinion at the
“Bring Them Home Now” tour in Martin
Luther King Jr. Park on Wednesday.
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and other members of Pretty
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their new movie, 'Buddy Cop
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Police encourage bike registration after thefts
Stephen F astenau
NEWS EDITOR
USC Students who use bikes to get
around campus will likely find notes on
their rides today with a special message
from USC’s police department.
USCPD, in conjunction with USC
Parking Services and volunteers, will
roam campus in search of unregistered
bicycles and leave notes encouraging
students to register their bikes using a
university Web site.
Forty-three bikes have been reported
stolen since Aug. 1, a number USC
Law Enforcement Director Ernie Ellis
calls “unusually high.”
“It seems to be elevated more than in
years past,” Ellis said. It has been
widespread over the entire campus.
Ellis said that while thieves haven’t
targeted a specific area, the primary
focus has been on racks close to dorms.
Volunteers will take inventory of all
bikes on campus and will register some
unregistered bikes.
USCPD and University Parking
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USC police will register students’
bikes in an effort to stem recent thefts.
Services launched a Web site
Wednesday allowing students to
register their bikes online. By visiting
sc.edu/vmps/bike.html, USC will be
able to track a bike if it is stolen.
After registering, students will be
sent a bike sticker that includes a
registration number to allow officials to
better track the bike.
Ellis said USCPD has not recovered
any of the stolen bikes, but that the
registration process would help.
“Unless we have a registration, we
cannot prosecute the person,” Ellis said.
“It is extremely important that our
students cooperate with this process.”
Ellis said the majority of thefts occur
because students are using only a chain
or cable to secure their bikes, which can
be cut with a bolt-cutter.
Ellis said a U-Lock is the best way to
secure a bike, although recent reports
have noted that the lock can be picked
with a ballpoint pen. But as Ellis noted,
the time it takes for someone to figure
out a U-Lock is generally much longer
then the time it takes for a thief to cut a
chain.
“(U-Locks) are much more difficult
to defeat,” Ellis said. “Suspected thieves
are using bolt-cutters they are carrying
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CAMPUS
‘INNOVISTA’
Sorensen, Pastides
unveil new moniker
for innovation district
Justin Chapura
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Innovista.
That’s the name officials unveiled
Thursday for USCs oft-touted
research campus being built on
partnerships between Carolina and
private corporations.
“You can guess where we got that
idea (for the name) from,” said USC
President Andrew Sorensen, who,
along with Vice President for
Research Harris Pastides, conducted
the 30-minute conference for faculty
members and students.
Innovista’s campus includes
recently-acquired land that stretches
east to the Congaree River and
toucnes me soutnern portion ot tne
Congaree Vista’s restaurant district.
Pastides gave a detailed update cfn
plans for Innovista, which he
described as an integral and
developing part of the city.
“We are creating a place that will
attract people,” Pastides said. “Maybe
even to move to Columbia.”
The design for the Innovation
District, an alternate name for
Innovista’s designated block, will
feature wide sidewalks, walking and
bike paths as well as bike “garages” to
encourage students, faculty members
and Columbia residents to relax in the
space, Pastides said.
Encouraged by West Quad’s success
as a “green dorm,” Innovista’s energy
needs will be serviced in part by fuel
cells. Like the rest of USC’s campus,
Innovista will offer wireless Internet.
Officials said USC might also add
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