New York (CNN) -- The parents of a missing Virginia college student plan to travel to New York on Thursday to assist in his search. Ian Hunter Burnet, a 22-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University student, went missing days after arriving in New York City to celebrate New Year's Eve, authorities said. Burnet left Richmond on a bus bound for New York on December 26, according to his father, Mark. He planned to stay with a fellow college student and her friend in an apartment in Harlem, his father said. "He went up just to have a post-Christmas tourist visit to New York City and celebrate New Year's Eve. He was intending to have a short time there and then return back to Virginia," the father said.
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Ian Hunter Burnet, 22, left Virginia to celebrate New Year's Eve in New York
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He stayed with friends in Harlem, who last heard from him December 30
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His parents have set up a Facebook page asking for information
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Ian Burnet is 5 feet, 10 inches and weighs 160 pounds; he has brown hair, green eyes
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Some other news outlets have reported that Burnet told friends he was not having a good time in @placeholder, but his father said that was something he had not heard.