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University
Thursday, April 19
■ Harassment, assistance
rendered, Columbia Hall. Student Dawn
Hensley said student Jeremy Fennell
repeatedly tried to enter her room. When
the reporting officer responded,
Fennell returned. The officer smelled
alcohol on Fennell. Because of Fennell’s
incoherence, EMS and First Responder
were notified, and he was taken to the
hospital. Reporting officer: Betanu.
■ DUI, no driver's license, Pickens
and Greene streets. Reporting officer Forte
saw a vehicle driven by Camarena Profirio
driving north on Main Street with
emergency lights on. Forte followed the
vehicle, which repeatedly crossed the
double yellow lines and almost hit parked
vehicles. Profirio ran a red light, and Forte
pulled him over. Profirio said he had had
about four beers. Profirio was asked to
step out of the vehicle and appeared
unsteady on his feet. He was arrested and
taken to theCayce Police Department,
where he was ticketed for driving under
the influence andnotdraving a driver’s
license.
Wednesday, April 18
■ Larceny of crucifix, South Tower.
Student Jessica Lentini said someone took
her purse from her room, which had been
unlocked. Items stolen included a black
Kate Spade purse, gold crucifix, wallet
and five credit cards. Estimated value:
$490. Reporting officer: Forte.
■ Larceny of video recorder,
Snowden. Student John Fetner said
someone took a Sony Camcorder with
an estimated value of $900 from his room.
Reporting officer: G. Whitlock.
Columbia
Thursday, April 19
■ Disorderly conduct, 2500 Bratton
St. Trey Jacobs was yelling obscenities
and throwing objects into the street when
reporting officer D. Bowman stopped
him. Jacobs was field booked and released
with a ticket.
Tuesday, April 17
■ Shoplifting, 2300 Taylor St. (Food
Lion). Employees said Leo Duncan tried
to steal a bottle of wine and three packs
of Kool-Aid by hiding them in his jacket
pocket. Employees detained Duncan until
police arrived, who found the items on
him. Reporting officer: S. Strokes. v
CORRECTION _
■ An article on the Student Incu6ator that ran Wednesday should have named Wfeixiong
Zhong, Hui Zhou, Li Xu and Peter Manchen as the partners in Ediningfmder.com.
Mark Schnee should have been listed as a partner in Mobile Marketing, and one of
the companies should have been referred to as Gamehitch Outdoors. And the partners
in BookSmarts are Peter Bense, Sunny Ward, Martin Slapnik and Brent Misenheimer.
The Gamecock regrets the errors.
Incubator
from page 1
retrieval of big game for purposes of
field dressing.
All the companies see the possibility
for success in the new concepts they
are offering.
“We will offer creative and new
ideas to businesses that already have
Wfeb pages but are not happy with them,”
said Justin Shearer, president of justinsane
design.
Weixiong Zhong of
Ediningfmder.com said his company
would stay focused on the local area,
but wouldn’t neglect the larger market.
“We try to think globally, but act
locally,” Zhong said “That way, we take
care of our local clients.”
Jeff Bolen, president of Gamehitch
Outdoors, sees his chance in offering a
product that, so far, doesn’t exist.
“A lot of people made makeshift
hoists where they throw a rope over a
tree and use it to pull [the game] up,”
he said.
According to Bolen, the main
challenge of the Incubator program so
far has been designing a business plan
and meeting the short deadlines.
For two of the companies, one
problem was choosing a name that could
be used on the Internet. .
“We tried to find a good URL for
our idea,” said Hui Zhou, member of
Ediningfmder.com.
Many URLs, the name a user puts
into a browser to find a company, were
already taken.
“People have the bright ideas, and
nothing is really new,” said Li Xu, also
of Ediningfmder.com.
A similar problem occurred to
BookSmarts, which had to change its
name just one day before the
announcement of the companies
involved.
During the application process, they
had originally chosen the name
Matchbooks.
“There was simply no possibility to
get any variation of ‘Matchbooks’ as a
domain name,” BookSmarts President
Peter Bense said.
Though the Incubator program will
help the businesses get started
professionally, all the partners said they
would most likely have continued their
efforts even if they hadn’t been chosen.
“We were setting up our company
before the Incubator,” Zhong said.
“During the process, we found out about
the Incubator.”
Bolen is going to do an independent
study this summer related to the
Gamehitch.
“That was part of my fallback plan,”
Bolen said. “It would have set me back,
but it was a goal of mine, and the
Incubator has helped it to become a
reality.”
During the application for the
Incubator program, the companies not
only had to come up with a feasible idea
and offer a business plan, but also show
their willingness to dedicate their energy
toward the project.
“I think it is not only being
professional about what you do, but
having a passion about what you do,”
Leslie Johnson, of justinsane design,
said.
Thelisha Casey, president of
G.L.U.E, isn’t sure what the deciding
factor was, but thinks showing passion
for the project was important.
“They were looking for people who
were really passionate about their ideas,”
Casey said.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.com
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Palms
from page 1
At the April board meeting, Palms
hinted he was closer to making a decision
than he was on March 28, but stopped
short of saying whether he was leaning
one way or the other.
Tm about two weeks closer,” Palms
told The Gamecock after the meeting.
“It’s got to be a pretty thorough process.”
Palms also said he hoped his
public announcement that he was a
Democrat wouldn’t hurt his ability to
serve the university.
“I hope any political affiliation, by
I '
itself, would not disqualify me as
president,” Palms said.
Other possible candidates for the
Democratic nomination to succeed
Thurmond include state Sen. Tom
Moore, D-Aiken, former U.S.
Ambassador to Great Britain Phil Lader,
U.S. Rep. Jim Clybum and Greenville
businessman Hayne Hipp.
U.S. Rep. Lindsey Graham, the only
GOP candidate to publicly announce he
will run, has his party’s blessing and will
likely run unopposed.
The Associated Press contributed to
tins report. Write the university desk:
gamecockudesk@hotmail.com
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