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4 « • South Carolina PRIMARY AMECOCK www.dailygamecock.com '■ _WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4,2004 ‘Since 1908 ■> Kerry 30% Sharpton 10% Clark 7% Dean 5% Lieberman 2% Kucinich 1 0% ing: 94% iTACUORDAN/THE PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards, North Carolina, and his wife, Elizabeth, celebrate his victory at Jillian’s Bar and Grill in The Vista. Seneca native uses hometown connections to win over S.C. voters BY ALEXIS STRATTON THE UAMECOCK Throughout his campaign for the Democratic primary, S.C.-bom presidential hopeful John Edwards has touted his Southern roots, and after polls closed Tuesday, support from his native state was evident as Edwards won with 45.3 percent of the vote. Edwards, who celebrated Tuesday’s win with supporters at Jillian’s Bar and Grill in Columbia, surpassed U.S. Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts, by 15.5 percent, who carried Missouri, North Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona and Delaware by large margins. “Tonight you affirmed that the politics of lifting people up beats the politics of tearing people down,” Edwards said after his S.C. win. Following Kerry in South Carolina, the Rev. A1 Sharpton re turned with 9.6 percent in South Carolina, Gen. Wesley Clark with 7.2 percent and Howard Dean with 4.7 percent. The race in Oklahoma was vir tually tied at the end of the day, ending with a win for Clark, with Edwards and Kerry close behind. Sen. Edwards, North Carolina, also made a showing in Missouri, coming in second behind Kerry. The North Carolina Senator had said earlier that a win in South Carolina was necessary to keep his campaign alive. ♦ EDWARDS, SEE PAGE 5 Ai*firK' m j Inside: CI aA 4 Kerry takes fi ve states t IG Cl I Oil for more see page 5 1 '—i—I i—SH— i-S-1 k S ——:—: Seven states, 269 delegates How the seven candidate fared in Tuesday's primary. 1 ___ I ■r _______________ ______________ __________ _______________________________ Delegates 55 15 74 26 14 A 40 45 Kerry 43% 50% 50% 39% 51% 27% 30% Edwards 7% 11% 25% 11% 10% 30% 45% Sharpton 0% 6% ' 3% 0% 0% 1% 10% Kuncfnlch 2% 1% 1% 5% 3% 1% 0% : Clark 27% 9% 4% 22% 24% 30% 7% Dean 14% 10% 8% 19% 12% 4% 5% Ueberman 6% 11% 4% 3% ’ 1% 7% 2 Percentage reporting 94% 100% 95% 60% 100% 100% 94% | _Source: Associated Prta> end MSM8C Graphic HutWEon by KRT Cempm. Shmm BooPt/lhrGwwoocfc_| Students use cell phones to cover primary BY JUSTIN CHAPPELL TIIBUAMBCOCK While other news organizations were covering South Carolina’s Democratic primary on Tuesday with the usual pen-and-paper ap proach, a group of USC students and professors experimented with a new journalism technology: the MoBlog. Short for “Mobile Web Log,” the technology allowed student re porters to cover the primary up to-the-minute via a camera cell phone and Web blog, www.scpri mary textamerica.com. The stu dent reporters sent quotes, pic tures and other information through text messages to a news room at Newsplex, a partnership between USC, South Carolina ETV and a Germany-based news con sortium called Ifra. The informa tion was then reviewed by an edi tor and uploaded to the Web site for a total turnaround time of about three minutes. “We’re looking at how we can cover news in an alternative way,” said Cecile Holmes, lead instructor for the print journalism se nior semester. “We are apply ing journalistic practices to blogging.” Since the rise in popularity of online messages and Web blogs, using these tools as a means to re lay information appears to be in creasingly feasible. “It’s like a chat room taken to another level,” said Scott Farrand, a visual communications profes sor who was working in the news room. With about 40 students and sev en phones moving throughout Columbia covering the primary, the goaloftheMoBlog experiment was to create a truer pic ture of news through massive amounts of detail. Randy Covington, newsflow editor at Newsplex, likened the information collecting approach to a mosaic. “Each tile is a little piece of the election, but when you step back it’s a broader picture of the whole primary,” Covington said. As new information and pic tures came though the newsroom, Covington said each entry was coded as a certain category. Someone visiting the Web site could then view the information based on categorical links such as “Main Street,” “Casting Ballots” or “Voter Voices.” Two students who were among the group of cell phone reporters, first-year broadcast students William Frierson and Jamie Downs, said they were assigned to the S.C. State University campus and told to cover students that sup port retired Gen. Wesley Clark, one of seven candidates running in the S.C. primary. “It’s a different type of commu nication,” Downs said. “It’s a lot quicker.” Newsplex Director Kerry Northrup said the Web site had been active for about a week and only had actual content since Monday. By Tuesday evening the site had more than 4,000 visitors. Northrup, who compared the MoBlog to a marriage of newspa pers and television technology, said the day was progressing as planned. “It seems to be coming togeth er,” Northrup said. “We’re learn ing a lot.” As the newsroom bustled, even the professors’ excitement was vis ible. “I have an opportunity to learn alongside my students, and we’re not stuck in one mode of doing journalism,” Holmes said. “We’re taking principles of the profes sion and applying it to new me “We’re looking at how we can cover news in an alternative way. We are applying journalistic practices to blogging.” CECILE HOLMES JOURNALISM PROFESSOR % dia.” Whether the MoBlog technolo gy will revolutionize reporting or fall into a mix of other types of me dia remains to be seen. But either way, most agree its strength is in the details. “They say, ‘The smallest pic ture often provides the greatest truth,’” Covington said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu ♦ DOUBLE-SECRET PROBATION Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity is reinstated. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 3 ♦THE LEGEND OFZELDA I The McKissick Museum shows a collection of Zelda Fitzgerald's artwork. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 4 ♦ FLASHY CANDIDATES David Stagg comes up with a way to make the primaries more interesting. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 6 ♦ WINTER WARNING Why the city needs a plan for winter weather emergencies. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 6 ♦ MOVIES WITH MEANING The African-American Rim Festival celebrates culture and talent. 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