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To the students and administration of the University of Virginia: On behalf of 30,000 students, administrators, and our Virginia Tech community, I cannot begin to express our gratitude for the outpouring of sympathy, support, and concern that U.Va.…

The violence on the campus at Virginia Tech draws attention to the emergency procedures and prevention tactics at the University

Matt Dickey and Catherine Conkle, Cavalier Daily Associate Editors

Days after students at Virginia Tech struggled…

Lindsey Wagner, Cavalier Daily Life Editor

University students dug through their closets to find anything maroon and orange -- two colors all Hoos had previously tried to avoid -- to demonstrate their support of Virginia Tech at the vigil held…

Web sites such as Thesabre.com, Techsideline.com provide forum for discussion, communication after yesterday morning's shootings at Virginia Tech

Eric Kolenich, Cavalier Daily Senior Associate Editor

In the wake of yesterday's tragedy…

Lindsey Wagner, Cavalier Daily Life Editor

In the wake of yesterday's tragedy, many University students felt unable to help their peers at Virginia Tech. Within seven hours of the shootings, however, plans were under way for programs to reach…

Publicado por Alex
4/19/2007 10:13:00 AM

Veintitres años. Treinta y dos cadáveres. Una Universidad y un resentimiento compartido que vuelve a reabrir el debate sobre las armas de fuego en los Estados Unidos de América y su uso tan poco…

Creado por Héctor González Avilés
09/06/2007 a las 04:26 PM


El diecinueve de abril
del año dos mil siete,
un coreano desquiciado,
enajenado por entes satánicas,
acribilló a tiros en su universidad,
a sus compañeros, dándoles…

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Creado por Julio Suárez Anturi
20 de abril de 2007

Sí, muchas cosas resultan increíbles en el caso del joven estudiante de Virginia Tech -EE.UU.-, Cho. Y dignas de evaluar desde el punto de vista comunicacional.
Lo primero sobrecogedor, por…

A.J. Kornblith, Cavalier Daily Opinion Editor

AS A Yankee from Pittsburgh, when I first started looking at colleges I didn't even know what UVA and VT stood for, much less the history of their long and storied rivalry. But once I arrived at…


Online groups decrying anti-gay protestors grow rapidly

Max Hall, Cavalier Daily Associate Editor

Students across the nation are taking to Facebook in response to planned anti-gay protests at the funerals of Virginia Tech shooting…

Community tries to come to terms with horrific attack

Maria Tchijov, Cavalier Daily Life Editor

BLACKSBURG, Va.-- In a day filled with a constant barrage of media images of the shooter who took the lives of at least three of her friends and 29…

Letters to the Editor
The forest for the trees

Tragedy struck at Virginia Tech Monday. Unfortunately, the sadness of events is not only in the actions themselves, but also in the reactions. I want to assert that we still need to keep an eye on…

After reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," my 11th grade English teacher asked us, "Is death meaningful?" The question forced us to think about the line that appeared over and over in Vonnegut's book, the line that appeared after…

In the cold shadows of Cabell hall, I sit and pray for sun.I stare up past Homer's statueto the Rotunda up the Lawn.I can see the flag through trees,half-mast, flicks of red and white.And though I'm proud to call it mine,my heart is filled…

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Por Pierre Lemieux
23 de abril de 2007

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg), Columbine (Colorado), Polytechnique (Canadá), Dunblane (Escocia), Jonesboro (Arkansas), Nickel Mines (Pensilvania), y Dawson College (Canadá). ¿Qué tienen en común todas…

Por Charles Peña
2 de junio de 2007

No es ninguna sorpresa que a raíz de la tragedia de Virginia Tech en abril de 2007 en la que 33 personas resultaron muertas, el control de las armas se haya convertido en un tema en la carrera hacia la…

Por Alberto Benegas Lynch (H)
6 de junio de 2007

Después de mucho escrutar con atención buena parte de las reacciones que se sucedieron a raíz de la masacre en la Universidad de Virginia Tech en Estados Unidos, me surgen dos consideraciones.…

Por Thomas Sowell
28 de abril de 2007

¿Cuándo ha abierto fuego un asesino múltiple contra una reunión de la Asociación Nacional del Rifle o contra un grupo de cazadores? Alguien decía recientemente que masacres como las de Virginia Tech o…

Por Carlos Alberto Montaner
1 de mayo de 2007

Cuando Seung-Hui Cho fue a entrar pistola en mano en la clase de aeronáutica para asesinar a sus condiscípulos en Virginia Tech, el profesor Liviu Librescu, un anciano de 76 años, menudo de cuerpo…

Creado por Gustavo D. Perednik
El catoblepas - numero 64 - Junio 2007 - pagina 5

Sobre los defensores selectivos de derechos humanos, que son permisivos sólo con dictaduras.

Borges advertía de no convertir la ética en una rama de la…
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