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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2007 VOL. 100, NO. 84 ● SINCE 1908 MLK Service Day attracts USC students year of the national Martin people with special needs. one. organized the center on Bull National volunteer day brings hundreds Luther King Jr. Day of Normally, the MLK Day “We had over 500 people Street. out to give hand to Columbia nonprofi ts Service where volunteers go of Service for USC students sign up and had lots of people “We had 40 spots, and to different places to help out is on MLK day, but this year show up (Saturday morning) they’re all signed up,” said doing whatever is needed. the service day was pushed who didn’t sign up,” Zhang Ashley Cole, a second-year Chelsea Hadaway Some went to the Habitat “It’s a great way to spend back because school started said. “We couldn’t use all the business student who was a ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR for Humanity store, some your Saturday -- doing after the holiday. volunteers.” site leader for the Red Cross went to the American Red service,” said Monica Hogan, Tina Zhang, a third-year Students milled around group. More than 400 USC Cross center, and some went a second-year sociology biology student and service the Russell House foyer and Other students signed students loaded onto school to the Hope Worldwide student. She, along with director, said they didn’t signed up for the different up at the Hope Worldwide buses Saturday morning and offi ce. dozens of other students, know how that change was groups, such as the American table, where they would were shuttled to nine different All of them were went to the Babcock Center, going to affect things, but Red Cross, where students sites around Columbia. participating in USC’s 10th a nonprofi t organization for the response was a positive painted, cleaned and MLK ● 3 Ballooning fame VH1 names USC student leader one of 40 ‘Internet superstars’ Jess Davis THE DAILY GAMECOCK Ryan Holt is an Internet superstar, according to VH1. The former music channel is showcasing the infamous video of Holt finding his office filled with balloons in its upcoming show “40 Greatest Internet Superstars.” The video clip found infamy on YouTube.com after being posted to College Humor as a short version of an extended shot of student senators and other student government kids fi lling Holt’s offi ce with balloons while he was lobbying in Washington, D.C. When he returned and found the offi ce, Holt exploded, berating students for using “air that costs money” and starting a catchphrase – “Look at me being serious.” The phrase, which Holt said while pointing to his own face, has become a Web site domain, a T-shirt and a path to infamy for the student body vice president, now a fi rst-year law student. Far from his initial anger, Holt looks at the prank with laughter today, and has also come to accept his dubious fame. “This is a part of my life right now,” he said. Jess Davis / THE DAILY GAMECOCK A makeup artist prepares Ryan Holt for his interview with VH1, about the fame he’s gained from an Internet video. VH1 ● 3 Medical school gets funds ‘Bob Day’ T-shirt from Greenville Hospital sales help charity health care fi eld. Upstate health care “This support from the shirts with the phrase along system donates $100,000 Greenville Hospital System Graffi ti inspired with an attempt to figure will help us in addressing out who wrote the message. for minority scholarships the minority physician phrases make money Garrett Curry, leader shortage in South Carolina for homeless, children of the Shack ministry, and the numerous health care described the first time he Sierra Kelly disparities that exist in the found out the story of Bob THE DAILY GAMECOCK state,” Hoppman said. Carolyn Rumsey Day T-shirts and how he Kelly Hurley, the THE DAILY GAMECOCK got the idea to use this for The Greenville Hospital medical school’s director community charity. System recently joined with of development, said GHS What started as graffiti “We had our Sunday Night the USC School of Medicine President and CEO Michael inside a USC shuttle bus Shack event and a bunch of to help students get into Riordan made the decision has now become an effort us went to get pizza,” Curry medical school. for the hospital to help the by the Shack Campus said. “Bob starts telling GHS donated $100,000 students. Christian Ministry to serve me a weird story about his to the school, which will According to GHS, a the community. friends making shirts with be separated into tuition contribution of $20,000 will It didn’t take long for Sharpies with his name and scholarships to provide be made each year for five friends to inform Bob Day, random phrases on them. fi nancial support for minority years, to encourage students a fourth-year marketing Being marketing minded, I medical students. to stay in S.C. to complete student, that somebody told him if he was smart he’d School of Medicine Interim their medical education. had written “Bob Day loves capitalize on it.” Dean Richard Hoppmann More than half of USC cake” on a bus seat. It wasn’t long before said the contribution from medical school graduates Connor Huston / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Day said he told a couple Curry was calling Day back, GHS will open up several remain in state to practice of his friends from the Shack proposing that the T-shirts The Shack Campus Christian Ministry is selling ‘Bob opportunities for students ministry about it, and the Day loves cake’ T-shirts, inspired by graffi ti found on a pursuing a career in the GHS ● 3 planning began to make T- SHIRTS ● 3 USC shuttle bus, to raise money for charitable causes. Sports The Mix Local News.............2 TODAY Tomorrow Opinion..................4 USC’s baseball coach Ray Tanner prepares for Guillermo del Toro’s fairy tale “Pan’s Labyrinth” Puzzles...................7 proves violent and fanciful at the same time Comics....................7 11th season at the helm as spring draws near Horoscopes..............7 See page 8 See page 5 Classifi ed...............10 60 41 57 34 PAGE 2 MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2007 Woman attacked in park near USC Sexual assault victim encountered gunman in Maxcy Gregg Gina Vasselli ASSISTANT METRO EDITOR A 28-year-old Columbia woman said she was sexually assaulted in Maxcy Gregg Park on Friday afternoon. Columbia police Sgt. Florence McCants said that around 5:30 p.m. on Friday, a man approached the victim on Blossom Street and threatened to shoot her if she didn’t give him her bicycle. He then led her to the park at gunpoint and sexually assaulted her, McCants said. The man then forced her to walk down the 400 block of Henderson Street. The suspect followed her on the bicycle until her screams began to draw residents out of their homes. McCants said the suspect dropped the bike and fl ed on foot. Maxcy Gregg Park is less than a block away from Five Points on Blossom Street, and is within walking distance of campus. The proximity of USC to the scene of the attack has some students nervous about walking around campus. Kelly Bobrow / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Amy Franks, a second-year Maxcy Gregg Park was the scene of a late-afternoon sexual assault where the victim was held at gunpoint. The suspect remains at large, police say. political science student, said she has faith in campus police Franks said. that park was good,” Franks William Royster, a first- anyone who walks around for anything suspicious. to keep students safe. Franks said she has heard said. year biology student, said campus alone to make sure The APO Escort Service “I always feel safe on the Moore Arboretum behind McCants said the suspect the attack makes him a little someone knows when they offers a nightly shuttle campus,” Franks said. South Tower and Patterson is still at large and the afraid for himself and friends left or what time they are around campus for students However, Franks said she Hall on Blossom Street was officer encourages anyone but said he knows police are expected to arrive at their who don’t walk to walk was surprised the USC Police a place to avoid at night, but with information to call working hard. destination. McCants also alone at night. To schedule Department had not put out hadn’t heard anything bad Crimestoppers at 1-888-559- “They should patrol a bit said people should use the a pick-up, students can call an alert after the assault. about Maxcy Gregg. TIPS. The suspect is a black more now, but they can’t buddy system as often as 777-DUCK. “They should make a “I always see people man who is clean-shaven, in be everywhere at the same possible and always be note of it or something to walking their dogs there.