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A Difficult Time
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TechSportsBlog.com reaction to tragedy
It is also available at TechSportBlog.com:
http://www.techsportsblog.com/2007/04/17/virginia-tech-tragedy/
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It's…
Tags: alumni, alumnus, blog, hokiehaven, reaction, techsportsblog, vincent rivellino
VT Tragedy - My Account
http://bluegnu.livejournal.com/16802.html
The day started normal enough - slogged to campus and got to my office around 8:15 AM, and spent the next hour and a half prepping for…
Two Degrees of Separation
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It's been said that there are no more than six degrees of separation between every person on…
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Student Use of Technology During Virginia Tech Tragedy
As the Virginia Tech tragedy unfolded students used a familiar the technology to keep connected with the events, friends, and families: Facebook.
Using laptops…
Tags: blog, commentary, communications, rss, technology, web 20
Virginia Tech Tragedy: Human Nature & Networks
While the Virginia Tech tragedy has spawned the predictable media frenzy, there has - so far - been an admirable lack of speculation about the killer, his motives, or what this event says about American society. Leftist philosopher…
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The Virginia Tech Tragedy
College is supposed to be an overall positive experience. You're finally getting to sort everything out in terms of what you want to do in life, where you're headed and learning and growing as a young adult while…
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Virginia Tech, In Light of Tragedy
Let me start by saying I am a student at Virginia Tech on my way to a degree in mechanical engineering. I have not been on this site in a while due mainly to the events last week which I am…
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Virginia Tech Massacre: Crucial Next Steps
Horror is the natural first reaction. It is hard to get beyond tumultuous emotions given the stories, scenes, and sheer numbers coming out of the massacre today at Virginia Tech. The facebook has emerged from a period as a nascent form…
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the virginia tech massacre in the media: sermons and loners
Listening to the Virginia Memorial, and all I hear is: "God-given", "God bless you", "community", "strength", "prayers", "family", "sanctuary", "violated', and of course, here come the leaders of the religious…
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Tragedy at Virginia Tech
Tragedy has struck the community at Virginia Tech, our state's "other" fine flagship university, which is located around 120 miles southwest of my hometown, Charlottesville.
Apparently a…
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Virginia Tech Massacre
My heart and prayers go out to all of the families involved in the senseless shootings at Virginia Tech. My understanding is that 33 individuals lost their lives in the massacre. What a tragedy! There is noting I can do or…
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Force of Nature
I broke down and turned on CNN to check out coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. I see there and elsewhere, without really knowing the details from this morning's mayhem, that the media are turning to the question of…
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We Need Emergency SMS Broadcasting Tools NOW!
It's been a dizzying day taking in the horrible news from Virginia Tech, just a few hours west of DC, with at least 30 people on campus killed by a lone gunman. I spent a good part of the morning running back and forth between…
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On the Ethics of Bad News
Tags: blog, cnn, digital network, media coverage, online community
News Coverage of the VA tech Shooting
Topics like these are always hard to approach. For some, the event holds particular weight, either because of their relationship with the victims, with the assailant, with the location where it takes place, or because of the…
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Virginia Tech: It's Not About Gun Control, and You're a Fool or a Monster If You Say It Is
Virginia is, if memory serves, one of the states that had a particularly malevolently horrible 2004 national election, one marked by substantial Republican chicanery and vicious suppression of the minority vote, so the…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control, politics
VT Students turn to God
April 18, 2007
Reporting for Reuters, Andrea Hopkins writes:
By all accounts, the prayers started even before the gunshots stopped at Virginia Tech university, and the pleas to God from grief-stricken survivors of the massacre…
Tags: blog, commentary, god, gun control, guns, politics, religion
Letter from a VT Student
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Don't Conceal This Debate
Former Tennessee Senator and potential presidential candidate Fred Thompson had a very interesting article in the National Review on April 20th entitled, "Signs of Intelligence?" which dealt with concealed carry laws on the Virginia Tech…
Tags: blog, commentary, delay, gun laws, second ammendment