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Ire and Vice: The Dead
May 22, 2007
By Darren Franich
Suicide is so much less embarrassing than homicide. Can you imagine the shitstorm maelstrom that would engulf our pretty campus if someone shot five people? Shot them so their blood splattered across the tables of…
By Darren Franich
Suicide is so much less embarrassing than homicide. Can you imagine the shitstorm maelstrom that would engulf our pretty campus if someone shot five people? Shot them so their blood splattered across the tables of…
Tags: mental illness, murder, stanford, suicide
Op-Ed: An open letter to President Hennessy
May 14, 2007
By Lisette Rimer
Dear Dr. Hennessy,
Thank you for your op-ed piece May 4th on preventing future tragedies such as Virginia Tech. It was forwarded to me byone of your students who suffered the loss of a friend, my son Patrick Wood.…
By Lisette Rimer
Dear Dr. Hennessy,
Thank you for your op-ed piece May 4th on preventing future tragedies such as Virginia Tech. It was forwarded to me byone of your students who suffered the loss of a friend, my son Patrick Wood.…
Tags: mental illness, stanford, suicide
Pychoanalysis won't fully explain VT killer
Published: Friday, April 27, 2007
Opinion articles
By: Carol Duh
My parents immigrated into this country in 1982. My parents told me a Taiwanese parable while I attended the same schools as Mike Pohle, one of the 32 victims of last…
Opinion articles
By: Carol Duh
My parents immigrated into this country in 1982. My parents told me a Taiwanese parable while I attended the same schools as Mike Pohle, one of the 32 victims of last…
Tags: mental illness, yale
The tragedy of Virginia Tech is partly a tragedy of bureaucracy
From the Editor
May/June 2007
by Kathrin Day Lassila '81
The tragedy of Virginia Tech is partly a tragedy of bureaucracy.
I don't mean the sort of complaint people usually make about bureaucracy -- too much paperwork and red tape. I…
May/June 2007
by Kathrin Day Lassila '81
The tragedy of Virginia Tech is partly a tragedy of bureaucracy.
I don't mean the sort of complaint people usually make about bureaucracy -- too much paperwork and red tape. I…
Tags: bureaucracy, gun control, mental illness, privacy
The vanity of reason: making sense of the Virginia Tech tragedy
Gene Koo - Thursday, April 19th, 2007 @ 5:52 pm
Soon after an initial outpouring of shock and grief at the senseless murder of 32 members of the Virginia Tech community, we began seeking explanations for the tragedy. By all accounts Seung-Hui Cho,…
Soon after an initial outpouring of shock and grief at the senseless murder of 32 members of the Virginia Tech community, we began seeking explanations for the tragedy. By all accounts Seung-Hui Cho,…
Tags: blog, commentary, mental health, mental illness
Coding Gun Control
Gene Koo - April 21, 2007 @ 6:42 pm · Filed under Code / Code
A report in today's New York Times illustrates both the promise and the difficulties of (legal) code as (software) code (U.S. Rules Made Killer Ineligible to Purchase Gun).…
A report in today's New York Times illustrates both the promise and the difficulties of (legal) code as (software) code (U.S. Rules Made Killer Ineligible to Purchase Gun).…
Tags: blog, law, mental illness
Cho Seung-Hui: A Lone Deranged Gunman?
Thursday, April 19. 2007
As all of America mourns the deaths which occurred on the Virginia Tech campus, bloggers are drawing comparisons to the body count that issues daily from Iraq. See a particularly poignant post from Floyd Rudmin of…
As all of America mourns the deaths which occurred on the Virginia Tech campus, bloggers are drawing comparisons to the body count that issues daily from Iraq. See a particularly poignant post from Floyd Rudmin of…
Tags: blog, cho, commentary, mental health, mental illness
