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Sports The Mix Local News..............2 TODAY Wednesday Opinion.................. 4 Renaldo Balkman returns to the The Daily Gamecocks chats with Matt Puzzles....................7 Colonial Center as the Knicks face the Wertz and Dave Barnes about music, Comics.....................7 Horoscopes...............7 76ers in the pre-season. See page 8 fame and YouTube. See page 5 Classifi ed................10 93 68 90 60 dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007 VOL. 101, NO. 33 ● SINCE 1908 Student falls from Capstone A fi rst-year student who Rollers speed into town fell four stories Thursday night is still in intensive care at Palmetto Richland Women on wheels hospital. showcase alternative Taylor Cothran, 18, fell from his fi fth-fl oor room roller skating sport in Capstone onto the roof of the Gibbes Court cafeteria, around 2 a.m. Liz Segrist Thursday night, according METRO EDITOR to USC. The fall appears to be A new sport in the city is accidental, but USC police combining intense physical and the South Carolina contact with roller blades. Law Enforcement Division Roller derby teams, which Cristina Kubicki / The Daily Gamecock are still investigating, said are made up of all women, are Russ McKinney, USC starting up in Columbia and spokesman. where they will sign a around the state. It appears Cothran banner to bring to the “There are all these went through the hospital. amazing women doing this,” window, McKinney said. USC counseling said Dena Webber, founder Maintenance workers were and housing staff will of the Columbia Quad seen carrying in a new be available for those Squad Roller Girls. “Strong, window the day after the grieving. opinionated, athletic women fall. “We are shocked by this doing roller derby. It’s like a Police are still terrible event and offer huge sisterhood.” investigating whether our prayers and thoughts Webber, a former drugs or alcohol were to Taylor, his family and Greenville resident, moved involved. friends,” said President to Columbia and founded the Cothran’s friends have Andrew Sorensen in a squad in March. Webber also organized a gathering news release. serves as captain, coach and tonight at 8:30 in the president for the team. Capstone Keystone room, — From Staff Reports Two teams of five players each are on the track at once, said Stacey Russell-Franklin, who plays on the team. The first position, the pivot, holds the pace of attack of the skaters. There are three other blockers and they block opposing players and the jammer. As the team’s jammer, Russell-Franklin’s job is to score points by passing the opposing blockers, she said. Special to THE DAILY GAMECOCK The object of the game is Roller derby players must practice for the skills they need to wipe out their competitors. to score points, which is left up to the jammer. “The whistle blows and track smaller than a skating The teams keep this up that players wear helmets, Andrew Mendoza / THE DAILY GAMECOCK the pack moves. When the rink and roped off by lights. for three 20-minute periods, kneepads and elbow pads. Construction continues on USC’s new Innovista building. second whistle blows, the Webber said the games are which are divided into short Each member on the jammer moves,” Webber said. intense and that everyone is two-minute jam sessions. Columbia Quad Squad Roller “They must move through exhausted afterward. Russell-Franklin said Girls team has a nickname pack, lap the rink, and then “Both jammers are trying she has been skating they go by during games, Innovista creates they come back through the to knock each other over, competitively for about Russell-Franklin said. Her pack. Both of the jammers blockers are trying to stop the 14 years, but began roller nickname is “Holly Hunter.” can make points when they other jammer, blockers are derby for a more aggressive “You can pick whatever come back through the pack knocking opposing blockers,” approach to skating. name you want that’s not new research tools the second time.” Webber said. “It gets very “I get to knock people The games are played on a crazy and aggressive.” over,” she said, but explained DERBY ● 2 demonstration a research Collexis becomes newest result which would have taken man-weeks if not member of university’s man-months to probe for UGA WOMEN technology corridor disease connections,” said ‘Mini-grants’ available Columbia businessman Donald R. Tomlin, Jr. Undergrads have better chance for research with funding FIGHT BACK Travis Frayard “The power of this tool STAFF WRITER in life sciences and other Halley Nani Morris said. “It’s how much other analytical areas is amazing,” THE DAILY GAMECOCK grants are worth, and with this Defense classes full after abductions A software company has he said. amount, we can fund and impact become the second Innovista Collexis plans to build Campus residents can apply for the greatest amount of students tenant, President Andrew The Hydrogen Web portal Dorie Turner $500 “mini-grants” from the offi ce possible.” Th e Associated Press Sorensen said. as part of the Innovista of undergraduate research in a new The projects are anticipated to be Collexis Holdings Inc. project, according to a news program, said Julie Morris, program scholarly, research-based or creative creates high-powered digital release. This web portal, ATLANTA — Female students at the director for the offi ce. in nature. Students from all majors search tools that can quickly or dashboard, is similar to University of Georgia are signing up “We are looking for any are welcome to apply. The deadline sort though and effectively a virtual library and will be for self-defense classes in droves after opportunity to further the already for applications, available online, is prioritize large amounts of the one of eight alternative- two women reported to police they were strong USC undergraduate research Oct. 22. information, its Web site energy topics that Collexis kidnapped and assaulted by a man they program,” Morris said. “We are looking for the kinds said. The information is plans to bring to life in its thought was a taxi driver. The undergrad research office of projects that will have a great gathered from indexes, Web partnership with USC. One class fi lled up in four hours after teamed with student housing to impact on the USC community, sites, e-mails and other Other topics include wind a nonprofit self-defense group sent an create the program, which is why most importantly, and also the digitized content. and biomass and will debut e-mail to students last week, said Keith it’s only open to campus residents, greater Columbia area,” Morris SC launch!, a program of later under the co-branded Sims, executive director of Safe Campuses she said. said. the South Carolina Research USC/Collexis alternative- Now. The program is specially designed Once students are chosen, they Authority, will help to fund energy suite. “I’m very happy that so many women for students that are residents of will work and conduct research the project with a $200,000 These dashboards will are looking at this and these incidents as the campus or Columbia residence with the aid of a USC staff member. contribution. give USC researchers a way they can be proactive about their learning communities. They will present their research on Collexis uses a search an edge in searching for safety,” Sims said. Recipients of the mini-grant can Discovery Day in the spring. technique different from information relevant to their Meanwhile, Athens-Clarke County get up to $500 dollars for material, Approval for a project submitted standard “word” searches. current research topics. police are asking taxi drivers in downtown supplies and travel for their research is based on the merit of the project, It builds profiles of text, Further, this dashboard will Athens to keep an eye out for a man driving project. the potential of the project to called Fingerprints, from be available for free for the a white unmarked van who has abducted An existing program, the provide education for the student digital sources and matches South Carolina research at least two women from campus, said Magellan Scholars, grants students and how the project will infl uence them with a preset list of community, and via the Detective Ben Dickerson with the police up to $3,000 for research. Morris the university. “fi ngerprint” concepts that Internet for a fee to other department. Both women — one a UGA said the smaller amount is aimed Magellan Scholars are not eligible help to make research more researchers worldwide. student and one a USC student — told at funding the largest number of for a mini-grant until the Magellan efficient, as well as more Researchers can use police they thought they were getting into students. Scholar grant period ends. relevant. The results of are this advanced search a “courtesy van,” which are car pools run “$500 or so is a very standard often described as “fi nding a engine technology to by nonprofi ts that offer free rides home to amount [for grants] across Comments on this story? E-mail needle in a haystack” universities in the United States,” [email protected] ● “I saw in a 90-second COLLEXIS ● 2 UGA 2 PAGE 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007 COLLEXIS ● Continued from 1 developing a suite of products DERBY ● Continued from 1 U.S., Australia and Europe,“ together” said Collexis CEO Webber said.