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Collection of Prayer & Encouragement

Ignite-LA, a Southern California young adults ministry shows support for those at Virginia Tech by holding a special memorial service for those who lost their lives on April 16th.

This is image of a collection of personal notes of prayer and…

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Always

When I came around the corner, I was moved by the care given in this simple, but strong message.

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The Tangled Thicket of Cho seung-hui, Don Imus, YouTube and American Idol

April 21st, 2007

Cho seung-hui, the Rutgers University women's basketball team, the students and Virginia Tech all form a tangled thicket nourished by the American media, overgrown with too many words, too many pictures and too many answers to…

Tags: alternative media, blog, cho, commentary, information fragmentation, mainstream media, media

In Memoriam: Virginia Tech, April 16, 2007

April 16th, 2007

As one who worked with school districts across the country, I know the issue of school shootings is every school official's nightmare. The apparent random nature of all the shootings only makes the nightmare more fearful, for…

Tags: blog, commentary, reaction, reflection, school shootings, schools

Virginia Tech Redux: Did the Old Media Lose it in Blacksburg?

April 18th, 2007
As the words continue to flow along with the tears after the deaths at Virginia Tech, one important observation rises above the ruins: the incident represented a triumph for what the pundits term the New Media over the Old. The keys…

Tags: blog, citizen, commentary, journalism, journalists, media, new media, old media

Va. shooting prompts Univ. policy review

Police trained, armed with special weapons, for crisis

April 20, 2007
By Rahul Kanakia

A new Stanford committee will conduct an evaluation of its emergency protocols in the wake of Monday's shootings at Virginia Tech University. The…

Tags: crisis response, emergency protocols, stanford, university response

Va. Tech victims remembered by candlelight

Students and community members gather at MemChu to reflect, pray

April 19, 2007
By Rahul Kanakia

Several hundred Stanford community members gathered yesterday evening at a Memorial Church service for the 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty…

Tags: memorial service, stanford

Let's Go Hokies!

Scoreboard during Yankees vs. Hokies game on March 18, 2008.

Photo by Rachel VanPelt.

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Tags: baseball game, english field, scoreboard, yankees

Exhibition game poster

Promotional poster for Yankees vs. Hokies baseball game.

Photo by Rachel VanPelt

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Tags: baseball game, poster, promotion, yankees

Souvenir seat cushion

Free seat cushions given out at Yankees vs. Hokies baseball game on March 18,2008.

Photo by Rachel VanPelt

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Original Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hokiefacs/2356328702/in/set-72157604217657636/

Tags: baseball game, seat cushion, souvenir, yankees

Releasing the balloons

Balloons released before the Yankees vs. Hokies baseball game on March 18, 2008.

Photo by Rachel VanPelt

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Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hokiefacs/2356325114/in/set-72157604217657636/

Tags: balloons, baseball game, english field, yankees

Ban lifted from UH professor - Hearing set for D'Andrea's defamation claim

Issue date: 4/23/07 Section: News
By Rachel Manuel
Ka Leo Staff Reporter

A ban imposed on a tenured professor prohibiting him from entering campus and from speaking with his students, was lifted after the University of Hawai'i made an…

Tags: professor ban compared to virginia tech massacre, uhawaii

Mention of shooter's ethnicity unnecessary

Apr 30 2007
Re: "CUPD Assesses Campus Safety," News, April 18

To the Editor:

Thank you for the article "CUPD Assesses Campus Safety." In some ways, it made me feel a little bit safer knowing about the heightened security. However, it made me…

Tags: cornell, ethnic identity, media

In Praise of Korean Apologies

In Praise of Korean Apologies

By Yitzchok Adlerstein

Despite initial apprehensions, Korean-Americans were not victimized in reaction to the Virginia Tech massacre. But this tragedy seems to have brought out the best in most Americans. Koreans…

Tags: korea times

DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR TO HONOR VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING VICTIMS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Quinn Densley
602-740-8569

DAY OF THE DEAD ALTAR TO HONOR VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING VICTIMS

A Day of the Dead shrine honoring the victims of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech will be on display at the Vision…

Tags: altar, arizona, day of the dead, maqueda, ruben maqueda, shrine

PERSPECTIVE: Covering Virginia Tech as a student journalist in Blacksburg

By:Priyanka Dayal
Posted: 4/23/07

I spent three days last week at Virginia Tech University as a reporter covering the heinous murder of 32 innocent people.

I had never felt so many things all at once. I had never been so nervous and so excited…

Tags: journalism, media response, perspectives, boston university

AtÃ³nita la familia del isleÃ±o abatido

Por El Nuevo DÃa - Puerto Rico

Hace un aÃ±o, los reciÃ©n casados Juan RamÃ³n Ortiz y Liselle Vega se trasladaron a Virginia a estudiar sus respectivas maestrÃas.

BAYAMON - Amante de los bongÃ³s. Estudiante de talento extraordinario. Sano y…

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La universidad de Virginia Tech reanuda clases tras la tragedia

Por Andrea Hopkins
23.04.2007 - 23:01h

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Los estudiantes de la universidad de Virginia Tech, portando 33 banderas blancas que representaban a las vÃctimas y al responsable del tiroteo mÃ¡s trÃ¡gico de la historia…

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Virginia Tech

Por Pierre Lemieux
23 de abril de 2007

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg), Columbine (Colorado), Polytechnique (CanadÃ¡), Dunblane (Escocia), Jonesboro (Arkansas), Nickel Mines (Pensilvania), y Dawson College (CanadÃ¡). Â¿QuÃ© tienen en comÃºn todas…

Tags: appalachian law school, charles steger, columbine, dawson college, dunblane, erstrato, jonesboro, larry hincker, matanzas masivas, nickel mines, nihilismo post modernista, peter odighizuwa, polytechnique, university of utah, virginia tech

West AJ

A range of items are placed outside of West Ambler Johnson Hall.

Photo Courtesy of Garry Thompson

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