Posted on 04/17/2007 12:41:47 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Her smile shines out of the pictures posted on the Facebook website under the title of “Why Emily Hilscher was cooler than me”.
The girl who is believed to have obsessed the Virginia Tech killer, Cho Seung-Hui - and may have been his first victim - had a lot of friends. More than 200 had posted tributes on the website today.
Ella Miller, an old class mate, wrote: “I remember her untieing my shoes with a fork, when we played in the woods around her house in the club house, going to the beach with her and her family. Spending the night at her house and staying up late playing cards, her teaching me how to play the saxaphone, summer crab feasts, swimming in the river, jumping on trampolines in the rain, backstreet boys concert, her putting worms on her nose lol...and it wasn’t just her personality - she was gorgeous!!”
Photographs on the same website show a pretty young woman, preparing for a toga party, going on an 8th grade field trip, and arriving at her high school prom. Described as a straight “A” student, Ms Hilscher, 18, spent most of her free time horse riding and hoped to become a vet.
”I’m interested in pretty much everything,” she wrote on her MySpace page, in which she refers to herself as “The Pixie”.
She added: “My friends are what keeps me smiling. I’m into snowboard, riding and music. Give me something I can bang my head to or dance like crazy, and I’m all over it.”
Ms Hilscher had met a new boyfriend, about whom she gushed about on her page. “I live, love and get booted but eventually that will change...I now have a wonderful guy who is hopefully going to change all of that.” College friends said her new boyfriend had just dropped her off before the massacre.
Ms Hilscher, a first year student who was studying animal and poultry sciences and equine science, was the next-door neighbour of Ryan Clark, a residential adviser at the dormitory where the shooting started.
It is believed that a morning argument in the dormitory at the Virginia Tech campus led Cho to kill the teenager and Mr Clark who had attempted to come to her aid.
Her grandmother, Merle Hilscher, 71, described the tight bond Emily had with big sister Erica, 21, who attended a nearby university. “They were very close all their lives,” she said.
“Now one of them is ended, but we have to carry on.”
On her Facebook tribute page today, Cody Yager wrote: “Emily was one of my first friends here at [Virginia] Tech. How could such a beautiful soul be removed from our lives?”
Will Sonnett from Rappahannock County High School in rural Virginia, said: “Emily Hilscher was cooler than me because she could make friends with a glance and a smile. She never hesitated to make someone, anyone feel at home with kindness and an open mind. Thanks for being awesome to lame little 8th graders, and for making stupid computer classes unforgettable.”
“I live, love and get booted . . .”
What does “booted” mean?
I wonder if she alerted the Campus Authorities to the fact that she was being stalked by a fellow student. If so... rut rho!
LLS
It is entirely possible that he, like a maniac I attended college with, fell for a girl whom he began to worship - and then when he had a chance to actually converse with her she was nice but standoffish and completely oblivious to his fixation.
He followed her around, stole her things, broke into her apartment, harassed her friends, until he was arrested for slashing her boyfriend's tires.
It's sad that some people are such losers the only thing they can accomplish is causing other people pain and suffering.
I don’t know. When the two were fighting an advisor was called in to stop the argument and then was shot along with her. So sad!
The astronaut, now this. The question to ask is what principles are lacking in the perpetrators, resulting in their doing crazy things after being rejected in love?
People with the right principles of civilized behavior get rejected, go on to gobble down 3 chocolate bars, but don’t go around trying to kill anyone.
Perhaps someone should mention that Jewish/Christian principles are getting stomped on by today’s world of liberalism. I just did.
Heartbreaking.
LLS
dumped
broken-up with
I think the killer stalked her he never dated her - never was her girlfriend.
I hate how the media keeps referring to this young girl as Cho’s “girlfriend”. She shouldn’t be linked to that evil man in anyway. She was a victim of his.
Asians usually look younger than their age. I worked as a bartender over last summer and always carded Asians even though they ended up being way over 21.
dumped.
The thing is, how do you advise girls to not make eye contact or acknowledge people for fear one of them will be a stalker? My mother told me that when she was a girl, you didn’t speak to people or acknowledge them until and unless you had been introduced to them by someone you knew and trusted. That sounds safe, but I can’t see that becoming the norm on college campuses.
Exactly,
All she had to do was be kind to him and he was obsessed.
What a little piece of shit Cho is.
As an admitted old fogey, how about they rethink this co-ed dorm stuff? It began just as I was leaving at the U of Illinois/Champaign and I was always glad I didn’t have to live in one, even though, back then, it was alternate floors for each gender. Given today’s hyper-sexual world, it seems to me to be just setting the kids up for problems.
especially now with things like Facebook, it’s pretty much impossible.
By myspace and Facebook standards, that picture is quite tame.
mindless obscenity on myspace with intimate romantic details of her life spoken in an objective manner to the world.
What "obscenity"? That she tended to get "booted"? That's a lament that she got dumped.
To me it looks like she was easy, a little unstable, befriended a murderer, and her having sexual relations with other guys triggered all his insanity.
So you assume, with only the thinnest basis of fact. There's no evidence that she was "easy," or indeed, had sex with anyone.
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