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UC Davis to hold candlelight vigils to honor victims
By: Talia Kennedy
Posted: 4/20/07

The gunman who shot and killed 32 students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on Monday was identified this week as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a…

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A different perspective on the Virginia Tech shootings

By: Brian Hanley
Posted: 4/19/07

My time here at UC Davis comes after spending years in Central Asia. This tragedy at Virginia Tech is uniquely America of this era, but it is not unique in…

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By: Rob Olson
Posted: 4/19/07

This is how it happens, a tragedy so great that if we were to truly comprehend it, we would find ourselves incapacitated with grief.

Speeches, national debates, 24-hour news channels, investigations, prayers and…

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By: Zach Kun Lin Han
Posted: 4/19/07

The massacre at Virginia Tech gripped the nation the way Hollywood films always do.

Except that it wasn't a film. The slayings were real, brutal and heartless. And while the gunman shot "randomly," it…

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By: Jenny Pedersen
Posted: 4/18/07

Let's be honest: this isn't my original column.

I was up late last night scribbling down something about "relationship people" and trying to finish a paper. Like most of us I didn't get enough…

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Officials discuss emergency notification systems
By: Talia Kennedy
Posted: 4/17/07

Editor's note: Monday's shootings at Virginia Tech marked the deadliest act of violence on a college campus in American history. Here, The California…

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Front and back of the program for April 16th Memorial Dedication, August 19, 2007. The text on the program reads:

"In the hours following the April 16 tragedy, the student-driven volunteer organization Hokies United placed 32 Hokie Stones on the…

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By: George Henson, ghenson@smu.edu
Posted: 4/26/07
No matter how much we try to make sense out of the horrific events of Monday, April 16, we can't.

Last Wednesday, under the guise of news reporting, NBC pimped the "manifesto" and video that…

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By: Mark Norris, Editor In Chief, mnorris@smu.edu
Posted: 4/25/07
A message scrawled on the back of a desk chair by an unknown person has prompted an investigation by SMU Police. The note says "I'm going to shoot up SMU on 8-06-07."

The…

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By: Ben Briscoe, Contributing Writer, bbriscoe@smu.edu
Posted: 4/25/07
First-year Weston Ashley went out to benches in front of his residence hall, Mary Hay, at 2 a.m. on the night of Oct. 12, 2006 to get his last nicotine fix before heading to…

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By: Hae Min Sung, Contributing Writer
Posted: 4/24/07
There was a Virginia Tech Massacre. Everyone was horrified. The killer committed suicide in the end, but he had already killed 32 people. Whenever I turned on the television, I saw the…

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The media are once again turning into the public's whipping boys

By: The Daily Campus Ed Board
Posted: 4/20/07

The nation is still focused on Blacksburg, Va. as all Americans honor the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings.

But as the…

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By:Adam Rizzieri
Posted: 4/20/07

It is no mystery that the tragedy of April 16 at Virginia Tech stands out as the deadliest student-perpetrated school shooting in the history of the United States. It goes without saying that an immediate sense of…

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By: Emily Sears, Contributing Writer, esears@smu.edu
Posted: 4/19/07

Pat McDonald is an atheist. The junior anthropology major was raised Catholic but reconsidered his religion his freshman year at SMU when he became familiar with Zen Buddhism…

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Media Credit: Christina Parrish

Members of the SMU community came together for a prayer service for those who were lost in Monday's Virginia Tech massacre. The service was to be held outside at the Flagpole but was moved inside due to…

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By: Carey Elizabeth White, Contributing Writer, cwhite@smu.edu
Posted: 4/18/07
Student Senate held a moment of silence for the victims and families of the Virginia Tech shooting and discussed campus safety yesterday in the second to last meeting of…

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By: Mark Norris, Editor In Chief, mnorris@smu.edu
Posted: 4/17/07
SMU officials say they are prepared if an incident like the one at Virginia Tech happens here. As recently as December 2006 an active shooter scenario exercise was held according to…

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By: The Daily Campus Ed Board
Posted: 4/17/07

The worst recorded shooting spree in American history occurred on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., yesterday. Thirty-three people were murdered, dozens suffered injuries and the entire…

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By: Alex Sanders
Posted: 4/25/07
Once the chaos at Virginia Tech subsided, students began to seek answers. Questions rapidly arose after authorities discovered Cho Seung-Hui was the cause of the tragedy. Of course, one of the first questions was,…

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By: Daily Campus Editorial Board
Posted: 4/24/07
The tragic shootings at Virginia Tech have provoked much discussion regarding measures to avoid future heartbreak. Perhaps the events in Blacksburg hit close to home in Storrs because of the…

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