Recalling Lost Friends of the Carolina Crew Rowing Team for About a Year
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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2007 VOL. 100, NO. 143 ● SINCE 1908 a day in the lifeof James Hyman Carolina Crew rowing team, fi rst-year music student Liz Segrist THE DAILY GAMECOCK Kelly Bobrow / THE DAILY GAMECOCK James Hyman, a first- Students stand up to speak about friends and family they lost at Virginia Tech at the remembrance service in Rutledge Chapel on Thursday. year music student, who participates in an intense water sport requiring much training and dedication, rarely receives a lot of recognition. Hyman has been a member Recalling lost friends of the Carolina Crew rowing team for about a year. As a newcomer, Hyman said it Community remembers pray together in absence of those departed since events on Monday is not too hard to learn the techniques. Aimee Kodat, a fi rst-year business others lives,” Kodat said. “They along with them,” Edwards said. “There are ‘learn-to-row’ Liz Segrist THE DAILY GAMECOCK student, attended high school with were fi ghting to keep that shooter Edwards said that VT and the days where the returning two victims, with whom she was out of the room.” Blacksburg community are united members take out new A memorial service was held good friends, and the shooter. Stephanie Sielaty, a first- and strong. members and spend the Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at the “I just couldn’t imagine that year sports and entertainment “The community came together day teaching them how to Rutledge Chapel to honor the anyone that I knew would actually management student, had a friend a lot, and they shared a lot. When row and about the boats,” victims and community of Virginia be shot, let alone the shooter from her high school die. I was watching that convocation Hyman said. “It’s not hard to Tech. himself,” Kodat said. “Erin and “The day was fi lled with phone Tuesday morning and heard the catch onto, just takes time to It began with a prayer and Reba were the people at school that calls and text messages. We thought roar ‘Let’s go Hokies!’ it just fi lled perfect your technique.” opening comments by University everyone loved. It didn’t matter everyone was OK until about 11 me,” Edwards said. “There is hope, Although it doesn’t take President Andrew Sorensen. He the people you hung out with on a p.m. that night I got the call,” there is hope.” long to learn, the practices used a quote by poet John Donne, Friday night, when you were in class Sielaty said. “It was so hard because Kodat said that she wants are long and demanding. “no man is an island,” to remind they would say ‘hi.’ They were just I had to be the one to tell my close everyone to take something from The team practices Monday USC students to unite in a time of such happy and positive people.” friends. I didn’t think that I could this experience. through Thursday every need. Kodat said she is frustrated and cry anymore, but I am.” “I saw the shooter in school. He morning from 5 to 7 a.m. Students from the Jewish, Muslim saddened by their deaths. Renia Edwards was an athletic was exactly as they described him; “We row on the Broad and Christian faiths spoke words “What gets me is that’s what and academic adviser at VT for he was very quiet,” Kodat said. River about five minutes of comfort and prayers specifi c to they were doing that day; they were four years before coming to USC. “You have got to go out of your away from campus,” Hyman their religions. being good students, learning in “It is one of the most beautiful way and talk to people and make said. “Our practices range There was a moment of refl ection French class,” Kodat said. places on earth. As I sat there everyone feel lucky and wanted. No from pretty vigorous and in which people stood up and told Kodat said that their heroic death Monday and saw those professors’ one should go without a friend or intense rowing to easy days their stories or their feelings about is something that keeps her going. faces that I had interacted with on feel like they are alone. I just pray where all we do are short, Virginia Tech. At the end of the “One thing that pushes me on a daily basis and knowing the level for him and his family.” timed pieces and drills for ceremony, everyone lit a candle and is to imagine how they died, the of concern that President Steger our technique.” listened to “Amazing Grace” on the reason why they went out that way feels and remembering all of the Comments on this story? E-mail During the practices on piano. is because they were fi ghting to save students I interacted with, I hurt [email protected] the river, the team works on endurance, speed and technique. “We work on the water, rowing steady, long pieces Uganda’s struggle told on fi lm to build up stamina for our Letter from President Sorensen sprints. We do technique An open letter to the drills to perfect our rowing Documentary depicts Carolina community skills to help us be more violence, strife in regarding the tragic events competitive with the bigger on the Virginia Tech teams,” Hyman said. combat-heavy nation campus: There are also some evening workouts. Leslie Bennett On behalf of the “These workouts include THE DAILY GAMECOCK entire University of lifting and ergins, which are South Carolina family, the indoor rowing machines The documentary, I have expressed our upstairs in the Strom across “Uganda Rising,” presented collective condolences from the treadmills. We by USC’s African Studies to the Virginia Tech work out maybe an hour in Program and Amnesty faculty, students, the evening,” he said. International on Tuesday staff and alumni. Our The team uses two night in Gambrell Hall, thoughts and prayers are diffi cult times. different types of boats. A gives a glimpse of the specifically extended to Please know that “four” boat holds four people constant fear, torture and Wandera W’ouma / The Associated Press the families and friends Carolina responded and is about 25 feet long. threat of death that the A protestor runs before a truck set afl ame by a crowd of those who have been immediately to the crisis An “eight” boat holds eight Acholi people in the country against government plans to sell forest reserve land. directly affected by this by assembling our senior people and is about 53 feet of Uganda face every day. tragic event. We pray management team to long. Since Yoweri Museveni half of the country hindered by the fighting that their faith and the monitor the situation at “There is also a coxswain became Uganda’s president has been decimated by as well. The southern half, universally expressed Virginia Tech for any who sits in front of the in 1986, there have been constant fighting between which contains Uganda’s sympathy they must implications for us and, rowers and steers and yells dramatic differences the country’s military capital city of Kampala, is a feel will help them as to encourage us and push us between the northern and forces and the rebel army. well developed commercial they work through these SORENSEN ● 2 southern halves of the Agriculture and urban ● ● CREW 3 country. The northern development has been UGANDA 3 Sports The Mix Local News.............2 TODAY Tomorrow Opinion.................. 4 Columbia Stingers coach Corey Miller Theatre South Carolina’s modernizes Puzzles....................6 trades in his headset for a set of pads. Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” Comics.....................6 Horoscopes...............6 See page 8 See page 5 Classifi ed.................9 72 42 80 49 PAGE 2 FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2007 Gunman textbook case of mass killer Cho Seung-Hui had personality traits similar to previous murderers’ psychological profi les Matt Apuzzo someone who blames others Sharon Cohen and is bent on revenge, a Th e Associated Press careful planner, a male. And someone who sent BLACKSBURG, Va. — In up warning signs with his high school, Cho Seung- strange behavior long in Hui almost never opened advance. his mouth. When he fi nally Among other things, the did, his classmates laughed, 23-year-old South Korean pointed at him and said: “Go immigrant was sent to back to China.” a psychiatric hospital and As such details of the pronounced an imminent Virginia Tech shooter’s life danger to himself. He was come out, and experts pore accused of stalking two over his sick and twisted women and photographing writings and his videotaped female students in class rant, it is becoming with his cell phone. And increasingly clear that Cho his violence-filled writings was almost a textbook case of were so disturbing he was a school shooter: a painfully The Associated Press removed from one class, Andrew Shurtleff / awkward, picked-on young and professors begged him University of Virginia students participate in a letter writing campaign set up by the organization “Hoos for Hokies” for man who lashed out with to get counseling.