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By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter

The Virginia Tech massacre by a South Korean student shocked the entire nation, including netizens.

On Tuesday, netizens posted articles expressing their shock as well as paying condolences to the victims of the…

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By Kim Heung-sook

``We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness ... We will prevail...'' _ Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Tech Distinguished Professor, poet, activist.

Ten days have passed…

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. _ For ethnic Koreans, hearing that the Virginia Tech killer was also a Korean was shocking in an almost physical way. Although I can speak only for myself, I feel a primeval sense of horror that someone connected to me by ethnicity…

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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…

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Shot from the South Stands during the Dave Matthews Set

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By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter

Virginia Tech (VT) students didn't want to think about the massacre incident any more during the press conference with Korean media.

Eighteen students and two professors of the school visited Konkuk…

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By Jung Sung-ki
Staff Reporter

Washington has dismissed Seoul's worries about a possible racial backlash in the United States and a crack in their alliance following Monday's shooting rampage at Virginia Tech University, diplomatic…

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By Kim Tong-hyung
Staff Reporter

The senseless tragedy that took the lives of 33 people at Virginia Tech University has some Korean students reconsidering their plans to study at U.S. schools.

After the gunman of the worst massacre in U.S.…

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Aug. 20, 2007
Anytime a tragedy occurs we ask ourselves how it could have happened and how it can be prevented from ever happening again. So in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, gun rights advocates began calling for the repealing of…

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April 24, 2007

By CLAIRE ST. AMANT
Staff writer
In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, questions of "why" are rivaled only by those of "what if."

What if counseling centers where Cho Seung-Hui was referred could've done more? What if…

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April 25, 2007

By BRIAN BATEMAN
Until last Monday, the only things I knew about Virginia Tech University were that it was located in Virginia and the school colors -- orange and maroon -- were ugly.

Maybe that's because they are the…

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April 26, 2007

By CLAIRE ST. AMANT
Staff writer
Even in the Garden of Eden, questions of evil abounded. Thousands of years later, we are still wrestling with the issue of depravity and the nature of evil.

The tragedy at Virginia Tech…

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Aug. 20, 2007
By Claire St. Amant

City editor


In Texas, it isn't surprising to see cowboy hats, belt buckles and boots glistening under the sun. But there's one piece missing from the cowboy ensemble when Texans mosey on over to…

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Aug. 28, 2007
The article "Students fight for guns on campus" by Claire St. Amant was amazing. I feel she showed the views of both sides without offending either.

With that said, I noticed the editorial "Gun groups gone wrong."

This…

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April 24, 2007

By KATY MATLOCK
Contributor
Before April 16, the topic of stress at Baylor University could have provoked yawns in its predictability.

With final exams, social pressures and looming career goals as the ingredients, stress was…

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April 17, 2007

By IDA JAMSHIDI
Reporter
Government officials are calling it the deadliest rampage in the history of the United States.

Virginia Tech University was the site of a mass shooting Monday, leaving at least 33 people dead,…

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contributed by Mike Overson, editor-in-chief

In every dorm room, as well as around campus, colored pamphlets display emergency campus information. This pamphlet, originally created by the State of Utah Division of Facilities and Construction…

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By CoachJason - Posted on September 24th, 2007

~Comments on the shootings at Santana High School in Santee, CA and Columbine High School and a call for zero tolerance for Teasing, Taunting, Ridicule and Bullying (TTRB) and the teaching of…

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Dave Matthews Band performing at A Concert for Virginia Tech, September 6, 2007.

Photo courtesy of Roger Gupta.

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Original Source: http://flickr.com/photos/spector1/1351379023/

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Dave Matthews as master of ceremonies at A Concert for Virginia Tech, September 6, 2007.

Photo courtesy of Roger Gupta.

http://flickr.com/photos/spector1/1352263170/

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