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University of South Carolina Scholar Commons April 2007 4-24-2007 The aiD ly Gamecock, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007 University of South Carolina, Office oftude S nt Media Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/gamecock_2007_apr Recommended Citation University of South Carolina, Office of Student Media, "The aiD ly Gamecock, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007" (2007). April. 5. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/gamecock_2007_apr/5 This Newspaper is brought to you by the 2007 at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007 VOL. 100, NO. 145 ● SINCE 1908 Brandon Davis / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Students gather on the Horeshoe during a candlelight vigil for Virginia Tech victims Monday. During a speech, Student Body President Nick Payne said, “I’m proud to be a Hokie.” USC pays respects to Va. Tech victims Candlelight vigil on Horseshoe inspires students, faculty to honor students murdered during last week’s tragic shootings in Virginia Catherine Martin THE DAILY GAMECOCK those who lost lives.” Virginia Tech. Neil Fletcher, a 1986 The service began with “A lot of kids from my graduate of Virginia members of USC’s a cappella high school went there, but Tech, at tended t he ser v ice USC students, faculty and group Sound Check singing thankfully they are all OK,” to support those who alumni gathered in front of “Lonesome Road” by King Sauthoff said. experienced the tragedy. the McKissick Museum for a Singers. The candlelight service “As a VT alumni this candlelight vigil in honor of Brian Glosh, a third-year defi nitely helps the Virginia incident hits close to home, the Virginia Tech victims. music education student and Tech students in more ways but it affects USC students Student Body President Sound Check member, said than anyone can imagine, just as much,” Fletcher said. Nick Payne, a fourth-year the Virginia Tech tragedy Sauthoff said. “It heightens the awareness economics student, said affects the whole world. “The strength and support of both parents and organizations all over “Colleges aren’t secluded that Virginia Tech students students, and shows just how campus worked together to to the town that it’s in, but are receiving from colleges vulnerable we really are.” make the service happen. people know students at makes them feel better to Fletcher said it’s important “Student Government, other colleges all over the know people are reaching for students, faculty and RHA, Greek Life, Carolina world,” Glosh said. out to them,” she said. parents to know what’s going Productions and everyone Laura Sauthoff, a fi rst-year USC students, faculty on at all times. who attended played a role nursing student, said she and alumni weren’t the only As the members of Sound in this important service,” came out to show support for ones attending this special Check sang “It Is Well Payne said. “We all just the families who lost relatives service, but Virginia Tech want to pay our respects to and for students who attend alumni were there as well. VT ● 5 Brandon Davis / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Google’s VP BARTENDING JOB EXCITING, UNIQUE speaks at USC rain,” he said. Jungles employee gives Barry bartends Mondays, behind the scenes look Tuesdays and every other Vinton Cerf says Internet space will run out Friday. He also checks IDs at popular local club on Thursday nights. by 2012 unless current system gets upgrade Barry said doesn’t have Elizabeth Segrist much past experience, he just THE DAILY GAMECOCK learns as he goes along. Nick Needham THE DAILY GAMECOCK He has been awarded more “I never really learned than 12 honorary degrees how to bartend,” he said. along with the Presidential James Barry, a third-year “I have just known about it Once he heard that the Medal of Freedom, the sports and entertainment since working at a bar back Soviets had launched a highest civilian award given management student, has in Greenville. I just picked up satellite named Sputnik into by the federal government. bartended at Jungle Jim’s on it and fake it.” space, Vinton Cerf had the He began his lecture since the fall after working Barry’s favorite drink to science bug. with the story of his wife, for a while as a doorman. make is his own creation, a Cerf is the vice president who went deaf at age 3 Barry said he likes his job shot called “Hi-Ci.” and chief Internet evangelist after contracting spinal because it’s fun. He said the most popular for Google, Inc. meningitis and, 50 years “I started to work there drink is Kamikaze shots. Known by many as one of later, was cured with a because I needed a job, and I “I had some great the “Fathers of the Internet,” cochlear implant. Cerf said fi gured working at a bar isn’t experiences with girls trying Cerf helped co-design the he’s now married to an Brandon Davis / THE DAILY GAMECOCK exactly working and I was to get some free shots, if you TCP/IP protocols and basic elderly teenager because Google Vice President Vinton Cerf talks about the Web. right,” he said. know what I mean,” he said. structure of the Internet. he can’t keep her off the On a regular night, Barry Barry enjoys many aspects He described his job title phone. Powerpoint on his laptop run out by 2012 unless the said he makes between $100 of his job, especially the as basically trying to get Because of their unique he said, “Power corrupts current system is upgraded and $200, but on weekends customers. more of the world’s people stories, Cerf said he and and Powerpoint corrupts from version four to version such he brings in much “Anything between the online. his wife have an in-house absolutely.” six. more. money and the entertainment Cerf spoke Monday as part rivalry to see who can During his presentation In just the past 10 years “I make a decent amount of of the people that come to of the Darla Moore School get more pages in Time on the state of the Internet, the number of Web users money, less than other bars Jungles,” he said. of Business’ Wachovia Bank magazine. Cerf said he estimates that has jumped from 50 million I’m sure. People at Jungles But there is one thing Executive Lecture Series. When he opened up space on the Internet will GOOGLE ● 4 don’t exactly like to make it JUNGLES ● 5 Sports The Mix Local News.............2 TODAY Tomorrow Opinion..................6 Carolina baseball prepares for a “Hot Fuzz” soundtrack compliments Puzzles....................9 mid-week showdown with Davidson the fl ick with fun, poppy British tunes. Comics.....................9 Horoscopes...............9 University. See page 10 See page 7 Classified.................12 82 60 87 64 PAGE 2 TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007 Convicted sex off ender cleared of rape charges over two days. Hinson, 48, crimes took place, which Darlington jury acquits had faced a mandatory life explained why evidence on man accused of raping, sentence without parole one of the girl’s shirts was under the state’s two- consistent with Hinson’s kidnapping 2 women strikes law because he was DNA. convicted of rape in 1991. He also described in Meg Kinnard The accusers were not detail a trip to a sex shop Th e Associated Press in the courtroom when with one of his accusers to Hinson was acquitted. purchase a sexual device DARLINGTON — A Their mothers and other about a week before the South Carolina jury on relatives wept. alleged crimes and identifi ed Monday acquitted a man They declined to the device in court. accused of raping two teen comment after the verdict. When Hinson saw police girls in an underground Authorities had charged cars arrive at his property, bunker last year, stunning that Hinson snatched the he said he assumed they prosecutors who spent the 17-year-old girls from their were after the four pounds past year building their case bedroom last year and of marijuana stashed in against him. dragged them one at a time the underground room Kenneth Glenn Hinson to a secret underground so he panicked and hid wiped his eyes and mouth room beneath a tool shed, in the nearby woods. and appeared to cry after where he raped and left The room under Hinson’s the jury said he was not them bound with duct tape. tool shed was about the guilty of kidnapping, sex Prosecutors said Hinson, length and width of a mid- crimes and assault with who knew the girls, expected sized car with a ceiling intent to kill. them to die because the about 4 1/2 feet high. “I think the verdict says it room had no air supply. He testified Sunday all,” he said as he was escorted But during the six-day trial, about how he carefully built from the courtroom. Hinson said the girls had the room over two years. The verdict followed about consensual sex with him During the trial, defense Gavin Jackson / The Associated Press four hours of deliberations just hours before the alleged HINSON ● 5 Kenneth Glenn Hinson listens Monday as a not guilty verdict is read on the charges of kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct, and assault and battery with intent to kill. Student What is your favorite memory Pulse of this year? SUSAN GRAY MAYUKO LAUREN CHRISTIAN DAVID JENNY Th ird-year KUNIMATSU RICHARDSON KATA SUAREZ GENSINGER biology Continuing Fifth-year Th ird-year Th ird-year Th ird-year student education public fi n a n c e public management student relations student relations student student student “My 21st birthday party, “Having dinner with all “I really liked checking “Tailgating.” “My spring break trip to “I went to New Orleans and the Carolina Ballroom my best friends.” Blackboard and seeing that I Florida.

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