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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2007 VOL. 100, NO. 141 ● SINCE 1908 TURTLES INSPIRE USC leaders focus on safety OLYMPIC Campus security a top priority, DREAM offi cials say Chelsea Hadaway Tae Kwon Do champ NEWS EDITOR cites popular cartoon University officials are seeking to reassure students as prompting hobby and parents that USC is doing everything it can to ensure students are safe in Chelsea Hadaway NEWS EDITOR the wake of the Virginia Tech shoot i ng s. Ernie Ellis, director of the What started out as an USC Police Department, interest in “The Teenage said the university has Mutant Ninja Turtles” has been working intensely on turned Kenny Carter into emergency management a national Tae Kwon Do and safety issues for the past champion. eight to 12 months, meeting Like many young kids, regularly to review existing Carter, a fi rst-year chemical plans and discuss future engineering student, watched ones. “The Teenage Mutant Ninja “This is something that’s Turtles” on TV when he on their mind not just in was young. But unlike most Kelly Bobrow / THE DAILY GAMECOCK response to something that’s other kids, Carter took that University spokesman Russ McKinney, left, Student Life Director Jerry Brewer and Student Affairs Vice President happened, but something curiosity and funneled it Dennis Pruitt discuss methods for preventing incidents like the one at Virginia Tech from happening on USC’s campus. they are taking very into a hobby that now has seriously,” said Ellis. him traveling all over the “We’ve been working on systems and an emergency vice provost for Academic the Gamecock TV channel. that left 33 dead on Monday, country. these response systems for a alert system like the one the Support. However, it is harder the administrators at USC At the beginning of the long time,” said Jerry Brewer, university was testing last USC has been refi ning the to alert the thousands of are soaking in all the month, Carter went to the director of Student Life. month. early alert system to inform commuters and people in decisions that the Virginia 2007 National Collegiate They have been working The newer residence halls students of incidents that academic buildings, Pruitt Tech administrators made Championship at Texas on developing infrastructure have had broadcast systems occur on campus, making said, and they are reviewing and comparing them to what A&M University where he to prevent a tragedy like the installed and the older phone trees, e-mail listservs their plans to help improve they would do at USC. came away with first place one at Virginia Tech, such ones have PA systems, said and utilizing the ability to those options. “They made practical and in his weight class. And at as early referral systems, Dennis Pruitt, vice president post information on the As more information the end of the month, Carter camera systems, quick alert of Student Affairs and university homepage and on comes in about the shootings SAFETY ● 6 will travel to Kansas City, Mo., for the United States Collegiate Team Trial. His goal is to become the world champion and the Olympic champion, which Fraternity up for award he believes he has a good shot at. Carter said he has beaten Kappa Kappa Psi nominated for high band honor everyone he will fi ght at the team trials in Missouri this month and that he is at the Brad Maxwell Chapter President Nicholas Annan, top of his weight class. THE DAILY GAMECOCK a third-year accounting student, said “Everyone in my weight this was the ninth time the chapter has class knows I’m a force to be Kappa Kappa Psi is in the running been eligible for the award since it was reckoned with,” Carter said. for the Scroggs Founder’s trophy, the instituted in 1957. The winner of the highest chapter award for the national “It’s not just another organization. competition in Missouri honorary band fraternity. We go through a lot together, and will represent the U.S. Kappa Kappa Psi is a coeducational we enjoy playing music for the at the World University fraternity dedicated to the service, Gamecocks,” Annan said. Championship in Bangkok, promotion and advancement of college The organization, which has about Thailand this summer. and university bands. The Zeta Chi 30 active members, primarily serves Carter will also travel to San chapter was one of 11 chapters out of USC bands and the School of Music. Jose, Calif., to compete in the 180 across the nation to be chosen for “We’re the people setting up chairs 2007 Senior National Tae Special to THE DAILY GAMECOCK a Chapter Leadership Award for the ● CHAMPION ● 6 Kappa Kappa Psi is a national honorary band fraternity. 2005-2007 Biennium. BAND 7 Gunman raged against women, rich kids, police say have been taking medication “When we read Cho’s plays, people reveal things and you never Note left in killer’s dorm room for depression and that he was it was like something out of a know if it’s creative or if they’re becoming increasingly violent and nightmare. The plays had really describing things, if they’re might provide clues for motive erratic. twisted, macabre violence that imagining things or just how real in Virginia Tech massacre Despite the many warning signs used weapons I wouldn’t have even it might be,” Rude said. “But we’re that came to light in the bloody thought of,” former classmate all alert to not ignore things like aftermath, police and university Ian McFarlane, now an AOL this.” Matt Apuzzo officials offered no clues as to employee, wrote in a blog posted She said she did not know when Th e Associated Press exactly what set Cho off on the on an AOL Web site. He said he he was referred for counseling, deadliest shooting rampage in and other students “were talking or what the outcome was. Rude modern U.S. history. to each other with serious worry declined to release any of his BLACKSBURG, Va. — The “He was a loner, and we’re having about whether he could be a school writings or his grades, citing gunman in the Virginia Tech difficulty finding information shooter.” privacy laws. The counseling massacre was a sullen loner who about him,” school spokesman “We always joked we were just service declined to comment. alarmed professors and classmates Larry Hincker said. waiting for him to do something, Cho — who arrived in the with his twisted, blood-drenched A student who attended Virginia waiting to hear about something United States as boy from South creative writing and left a rambling Tech last fall provided obscenity- he did,” said another classmate, Korea in 1992 and was raised note in his dorm room raging and violence-laced screenplays Stephanie Derry. “But when I got in suburban Washington, D.C., Courtesy of Virginia State Police against women and rich kids. that he said Cho wrote as part of the call it was Cho who had done where his parents worked at a dry A chilling picture emerged Cho Seung-Hui wrote plays that a playwriting class they both took. this, I started crying, bawling.” cleaners — left a note in his dorm Tuesday of Cho Seung-Hui alarmed his English professors. One was about a fight between Professor Carolyn Rude, room that was found after the — a 23-year-old senior majoring a stepson and his stepfather, and chairwoman of the university’s bloodbath. in English — a day after the “anti-woman, anti-rich kid.” involved throwing of hammers and English department, said Cho’s A government offi cial, who spoke bloodbath that left 33 people dead, The Chicago Tribune reported attacks with a chainsaw. Another writing was so disturbing that of condition of anonymity because including Cho, who killed himself on its Web site that the note railed was about students fantasizing he had been referred to the he had not been authorized to as police closed in. against “rich kids,” “debauchery” about stalking and killing a teacher university’s counseling service. discuss details of the case, said the News reports said that he may who sexually molested them. “Sometimes, in creative writing, note had been described to him as GUNMAN ● 7 Sports The Mix Local News.............2 TODAY Tomorrow Opinion.................. 8 The Gamecocks beat Wofford Terriers Widespread Panic brings energy to the Puzzles....................11 and prepare for crucial matchup Township Auditorium with powerful Comics.....................11 Horoscopes...............11 aganist in-state rivals. See page 12 jams Sunday. See page 9 Classifi ed.................14 69 48 75 47 PAGE 2 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2007 MSNBC anchor comes home to USC “My roommate thought it Building in Oklahoma City. Journalist Rita Cosby, was a prank call — ‘It’s Diane Cosby said one of her most Sawyer on the phone!’” Cosby memorable interviews was with a 1989 Carolina grad, said. “Early on, she took me in her father, a Polish prisoner of off ers career advice and has been a bit of a mentor to war during World War II.