Crime Scene
The crime scene near Norris Hall is filled with a police presence.
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Crime scene Tape
Individuals have placed flowers and other items at the crime scene outside of Norris Hall.
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2007-05-25
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View of Norris hall
Photo taken April 21, 2007.
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2007-11-14
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View of Norris hall with police line tape in foreground.
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Norris Hall
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Norris Hall
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Norris Hall
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2007-11-14
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Flowers at Norris Hall
Flowers placed at an entrance to Norris Hall on 4/16/08.
Photo by Brian Sewell.
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2008-05-02
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Flowers in front of Norris Hall
(April 18, 2007) Flowers in front of Norris Hall.
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Haiyan Cheng in an interview
Haiyan Cheng,who experienced the shooting with her students in the Norris Hall on April 16 was talking with the journalist.
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新民网
2007-08-15
Na Mi
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Inside Norris Hall
<b>More than 20 news outlets toured the April 16 shootings site</b>
By: Amy L. Kovac
(June 14) The cinderblock walls of Norris Hall's second-floor classrooms and hallway are covered with a new coat of cream-colored paint. The classrooms stand bare, save for some newly installed white boards where blackboards previously hung. New doors replaced the ones on classrooms 204, 206, 207 and 211 that Seung-Hui Cho shot through in his violent fit almost two months ago.
But if it were not for the dozens of journalists, with their cameras and notepads, roaming the hallway, that second floor might have looked as sterile and uninhabited as any newly renovated building on Virginia Tech's campus.
The news media got their first post-April 16 look at this now-infamous building, starting at 10 this morning. Previously, journalists had been blocked from entering Norris.
"A horrendous and heinous and horrific crime occurred on our campus and on state property, and I owe it to you as members of the working press to see this," said Larry Hincker, the associate vice president for university relations.
"I simply did not want to subject families to images of Norris Hall at that time," he explained. "It was my decision, and I'll take the heat for closing the building at the time."
The university has offered each of the families of the victims - the murdered and the injured - the opportunity to tour the building to help in the healing process, Hincker said. So far, 18 families have walked through Norris Hall with university police escorts.
The building, where 30 of the 32 people were killed by Cho on April 16, houses several laboratories used by various engineering departments and will reopen to faculty, staff and students Monday. Three of those labs, including the university's only machine shop, were part of the media tour.
"Not being able to get in the building has basically shut down what many researchers on campus used," said David Simmons, the supervisor of the machine shop. "It was a big hindrance to not have it open. These students have been begging to get back in here."
The machine shop, which is also used by researchers at the Corporate Research Center, is the site where law enforcement officers entered Norris Hall on April 16. Cho had chained other entrances shut but not the doors to the shop. Officers shot through a lock on the shop's large doors and went up the stairs on the northwest side of the building. A 4-inch by 4-inch wooden block now covers that lock.
The four affected classrooms and the other general-use classrooms in the building will be converted into rooms for other uses by the Engineering Science and Mechanics department. See Big Lick U article: <a href=http://www.biglicku.com/blu/Stories/StoryDisplayPage.aspx?title=Tech%27s%20Norris%20Hall%20to%20begin%20phased%20reoccupation&id=350>Tech's Norris Hall to begin phased reoccupation</a>
None of the classrooms on the second floor are marked with room numbers anymore. Neither do they contain any desks or chairs or any other furniture besides the white boards.
The hallways on the second floor are also bare, in stark contrast to the first floor, where bulletin boards are covered with colorful flyers placed there before the shootings. One of them publicized an April 18 vigil for a National Day of Silence for those "who are forced into silence by violence and fear."
The renovations to Norris thus far have cost approximately $400,000, Hincker said, and included emergency clean-up and general remediation, such as asbestos removal.
The two wings of Norris Hall, named for a former dean of Tech's school of engineering, were built in the early 1960s and together cost $907,000.
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Original Source:<a href=http://www.biglicku.com/blu/Stories/StoryDisplayPage.aspx?Title=Inside%20Norris%20Hall&ID=370> Big Lick U - June 14, 2007</a>
Amy L. Kovac
2007-06-27
Sara Hood
Chris Winston <Chris.Winston@biglicku.com>
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Let's Remember Them
The week after the shooting, people placed bunches of flowers in front of the Norris Hall to express their sadness.
Na Mi
2007-08-06
Na Mi
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Media Message and Norris Hall
A sign affixed to a light pole on the Virginia Tech campus reads "VT Stay
Strong! Media Stay Away!"
Norris Hall is in the background. Photo taken April 15, 2008.
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2008-05-23
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No one deserves a tragedy
Tape that surrounds Norris (where the second shooting took place at VT). Burruss (another building on campus) is in the background. I still can't believe this happened at my school and that now one of the buildings I pass every day is a crime scene...words can't even describe
Stay strong my fellow Hokies.
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Kristina Cummins
2007-07-02
Chad Newswander
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Norris Flowers
Flowers on a low wall in front of Norris Hall. Photo taken April 15, 2008.
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2008-05-22
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Norris Hall
Norris Hall has been sealed off as the police conduct its investigation.
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2007-06-01
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Norris Hall
The location of the second shooting has become a memorial site.
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Norris Hall
Two individual look upon Norris Hall where the shootings occurred.
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2007-06-07
Chad Newswander
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Norris Hall
Norris Hall is gated off and closed to the public.
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2007-06-28
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Norris Hall reopening is one step toward healing
<b>A student perspective</b>
By: Bryan Schamus
(June 6) I will admit that I once uttered the statement, "There is no way any student should have to walk through that building again."
Norris Hall being "that building" - the site on campus at Virginia Tech where 31 of the 33 people killed on April 16 were shot.
But now, almost two months later, I just don't feel that way anymore.
When the university announced Tuesday in a press release that Norris will reopen on June 18, I was surprised. But after the initial shock wore off (about five minutes), I was not only OK with it, I realized that I am very glad.
A lot of fellow students agree.
"I think it's a good decision," said Caitlin Czeh, a 2005 graduate who has lived and worked in Blacksburg for the past two years. "It seemed like it just the right amount of time. A decision now will give students and professors who will be working in that building time to acclimate themselves and prepare themselves for being in there. And it gives those students who won't be in there some closure."
As announced, the building will open for office and laboratory use only. It once accounted for 5 percent of the classrooms on campus but will never be used for classes again.
I understand that not every student will be ready to return to that now-infamous building. But once again, the university is bending over backward to take care of students; other arrangements will be made for those not wanting to return there.
Personally, I feel very comfortable with this decision, especially since the engineering faculty themselves requested to move back in, according to the press release. Many of them had laboratory equipment and other materials necessary to do their research that would have been difficult to relocate or replace.
"As someone who was here [at Tech] on April 16, I don't know if I could go back into the building, especially so soon," said Jennie Tal, a 2007 graduate and a fellow BigLickU writer. "But on the other side, while this is a little soon, I think it is a good step in the direction of recovery."
Eventually, the empty classrooms will turn into more offices and labs. For now, many areas of the building have been repainted, and new lights have been installed.
Plans are under way for an official memorial somewhere else on campus.
Students and faculty will be able to enter the building using the Holden-Norris tunnel entrance. The building will be unlocked from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays, locked on weekends and accessible by key during off-hours.
The building will not be open to visitors.
I spent a good portion of today on campus at Tech and could not find one person in my travels who really opposed this decision. Like me, some were surprised, but then most talked of the healing that has already happened and needs to continue.
To me, closing Norris or knocking it down is just giving in to the evil that was perpetrated on this campus that day.
On June 14, four days before the scheduled reopening, the school will give tours of Norris in groups of 25 to the media. Dean Amy - our editor - and I will be on the first one at 10 a.m.
It will not be easy.
I'm 21 years old, a senior at Virginia Tech. A close friend lost her best friend in that building in April.
But I am honored to be able to report to you the state this place is now in.
Look for our coverage on the walking tour of Norris Hall on June 14.
And to all those engineering students and faculty out there who will return to Norris on the 18th, good for you.
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Original Source: <a href=http://www.biglicku.com/blu/Stories/StoryDisplayPage.aspx?Title=Norris%20Hall%E2%80%99s%20reopening%20is%20one%20step%20toward%20healing&ID=355> Big Lick U - June 6, 2007</a>
Bryan Schamus
2007-06-28
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