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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages stars and stripes monday april 23 2007 in the states minister urges tech to go Forward by Adam Geller and Chris Kahn the associated press Blacksburg Vaas pastor of Blacks Burg Baptist Church Tommy Mcdearis was called on to Tell More than 20 families a loved one had fallen victim to Virginia tech gun Man seun Hui Cho on sunday he urged his congregation and the University to put the pain of the rampage behind them by returning to classes monday if we give up in the face of this situation if we quit doing All of the things that really mat Ter in life because this darkness has visited us then we Are going to surrender to the dark Ness Mcdearis said Mcdearis delivered his Sermon sunday As students who had left school following the Mas Sacre returned to Campus he told the Story of a professor devastated by the deaths of sever Al of his students at Norris Hall where Cho killed 30 students and faculty members before turning the gun on himself the professor said he didst know if he could come Back but failing to doing so he said would be a betrayal of the memories Hopes and dreams of the victims there is no Way that any of them would Ever look at us and want us to give up Mcdearis said we owe them More than to just throw in the Towel in getting ready for the resumption of classes the University student government asked hundreds of reporters to leave Campus by monday morning student government spokeswoman Liz Hart said the Campus appreciates the reporting on the Virginia tech Story but students Are ready to move Forward the Best Way to know How to do that is get Charles the Ebay member profile for bazers5505 is displayed on a Laptop computer in Blacksburg a the Virginia tech killer went to Ebay to buy ammunition clips for one of the types of guns used in the rampage a spokesman for the auction site confirmed saturday the Campus Back to Normal she said that includes being Able to go Back to class to get Back into our Normal routine As much As a pos sible without being held Back by anything external reminding us that it will be a difficult Road we already know it yellow crime scene tape still surrounded the perimeter of Norris Hall which will be closed for the rest of the semester some peo ple snapped photos of the building others gazed at it solemnly with bowed Heads elsewhere on Campus students toted Laun dry and suitcases As they headed for their dorms at the Center of Campus Sophomore Ashleigh Shifflett sat with her sister Regan a 2005 graduate Shifflett left Campus tuesday for her Home in Maryland and returned to Campus saturday when we could see the Campus we both started crying Shifflett said i was Happy to see my family but i Felt like i needed to be Here and when i came Back Here it was like in Home meanwhile state medical examiners completed autopsies on All 32 victims and Cho or William Massello the assistant medical exam Iner based in Roanoke said he was not sure whether All the bodies had been released to families but All were ready Cho was not especially accurate with his shots Massello said but hit Many of the Vic Tims several times his shots caused More than 100 wounds the investigation into Cho continues with computer forensics appearing to play a key role the gunman a sullen loner who appeared to have few if any friends used Ebay to buy ammunition clips designed for one of two handguns used to kill 32 people and himself the Ebay account and other internet activities provide insight into How Cho May have plotted for the rampage including the Pur Chase of several empty ammo clips about three weeks before the attack Hani Durzy an Ebay spokesman said the Purchase of the clips from a web Vendor based in Idaho was Legal and that the company has cooperated with authorities attempts to reach the Idaho dealer were unsuccessful authorities Are also examining the personal computers found in chos dorm room and seeking his cellphone records a search warrant affidavit filed Friday stated that investigators wanted to search chos email accounts including the address Durzy con firmed Cho used the same blazers5505 Han dle on Ebay Roommate recalls being fed up with Cho by Michael e Ruane the Washington Post question Mark was getting to be an aggravation the whole thing with the imaginary girl Friend Jelly the super Model hed say he was making out with in his locked room the weird faceless Pic Ture he posted on face Book that was sup posed to be him the scary lines from shakes Peare he scrawled on a girls dorm door the phone Call where he said Koch he was on vacation with russian president Vladimir Putin his claim he lived in room 666 of co Chrane Hall that has five floors the sunglasses the Buzz hair cuts he gave himself in his room the Calls to his roommates in which he pretended he was some body named question Mark and they All knew it was Seung Andy Koch was fed up with his Roommate seun Hui Cho he re called saturday in a phone inter View from Blacksburg a who does this Koch said to himself in the four months before the Virginia tech mass murderer was briefly committed to a psychiatric clinic in december 2005 his bizarre conduct unfolded in the usually innocent world of face Book laptops and Dor door erase boards amid the social whirl and the Al lighters and the classes Cho first began to strike people As not quite right Koch 21 has emerged As among the first to Alert school authorities about Cho since chos rampage he has replayed the events of 2005 Over and Over won Dering if he might have done More they were Little incidents that none of them could be added up at anything he said but now looking Back on it we should have done something Koch then a Sophomore management major from Richmond a said he and two friends roomed with Cho in fall 2005 in an eight person suite Cho first got their attention at a frat party that september Stu dents were standing around drinking Beers and catching up Cho mentioned he had an imaginary Girlfriend he said her name was Jelly and she called him Spanky and that she was a supermodel and she travelled through space Koch said we were like really he said Kochs first real worry came the sunday night Campus police arrived to speak to Cho about bothering a female classmate Koch said he was asleep when two uniformed officers banged loudly on the suite door Koch opened and the police asked for Cho Cho later told the roommates that hed apparently frightened a girl when he went to her room to look her in the Eye he said hed gone there to see if she was Cool and instead saw promiscuity in her gaze what she saw in his was enough for her to Call police Koch indicated indonesian relatives Grieve for it student the associated press Jakarta Indonesia relatives of an indonesian student who was killed in the Virginia tech massacre burst into tears sunday As his body arrived from the us to their Home in the capital under heavy rain Partahi Mora Lumbantoruan 34 had been studying civil engineering and died in a Hail of bullets two semesters Short of getting his doctorate officials lifted his body from the air plane sunday morning and put it in an ambulance which sped to an Eastern Jakarta suburb where grieving family members were waiting a foreign ministry official handed Over a Back pack with his belongings Mora this is mama wailed his Stepmother Sugi Marti As his coffin was opened for View ing ahead of his burial at a Jakarta cemetery on monday others Hung their Heads and offered prayers i Hope you will rest now Lumbantoruan told family members he chose Virginia tech because he thought it was among the worlds Best technical colleges and hoped to one Day become a teacher his father said he sold property and cars to help him reach his goal Lumbantoruan Mother died in a traffic Accident when he was just 3 and he will be buried near her grave this is a sad time for us said Richard Panjaitan his Uncle god says his time has come we believe it is the Best for him Lumbantoruan was one of 16 indonesian students at Virginia tech Pentagon car sales serves us military communities in the following areas Germany Kaiserslautern Kaise Strasse 1 67661 Kaiserslautern Tel 0631 351 900 Heidelberg Hebe Strasse 3 69115 Heidelberg Tel 06221 14490  14 55252 main Kastel Tel 06134 567 800 Auto aus Schaal  4 54634 Pitburg Tel 06561 947 042 Italy Aviano via por Denone 48d 33081 Aviano in Tel 0434 676 la Maddalena Piazza Bambin Gesu 11 07024 la Maddalena Tel 0789 723 026 Naples via Moscariello 46 81030 a Sicignano i Aversa Tel 081 502 85 56 Sig Oneida Nova sport car spa ss192contradajungetto 95121 Catania Tel 095 749 1265 Vicenza Viale Delia Pace 254b 36100 Vicenza i Tel 0444 305 888 Spain Rota plazadeltriunfo6 11520 Rota Cadiz Tel 956 840 201   
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