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By: Kyle Thomas
Posted: 4/24/07
The terrible tragedy which took place last week at Virginia Tech has stunned the nation. The day a tormented madman decided to take the lives of 32 innocent individuals was horrid, disgusting, gut wrenching and a…

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By: Laura Alix
Posted: 4/23/07

So this is it - my final column for The Daily Campus. Over the past few weeks, I've been pondering whether I should write a more traditional "farewell" column or whether I should just do what I've been doing…

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Storrs Community Extends Its Support
By: Freesia Singngam
Posted: 4/17/07
The worst shooting in American history took place at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) on Monday affecting the entire nation.

The UConn…

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Words do not come easily at a time like this, but for a tragedy of this magnitude, it is important to take a step back and observe the world we live in.

On Monday, Apr. 16, 2007, 33 people lost their lives on a campus a lot like this one, 2,700…

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By John Williams

"A 1st Sergeant handed me an ammo box of 240 rounds: the blood-stained rounds that my best friend had been using when he was shot and killed in an ambush, on a patrol that he wasn't supposed to be on, one day after we were…

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By Joel Runck
Statesman Staff Reporter

In light of the massacre at Virginia Tech on April 16, security protocols are being reevaluated and modified at campuses nationwide.

UMD is also devising and implementing measures to improve security and…

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Our View is prepared by the Editorial Board which operates independently from the newsroom.

By The Editorial Board


On April 20, 1999, the United States watched in horror as the shootings at Columbine High School unfolded and sparked a series…

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By Lisa Kunkel
Statesman Staff Reporter


Horrific school shootings such as the Virginia Tech massacre leave people wondering what can possibly drive an individual to such extreme measures.

Seung-Hui Cho took the lives of 33 people including…

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Stanley Evans, Contributing Reporter

Students and faculty, including senior administration, formed a maroon "V" and an orange "T" on Freiberger Field last Friday to show their support for the Virginia Tech community. The turnout included various…

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Commentary

Reflections on a Mass Homicide

Jimmy Lee,1 MBBS, MMed (Psych), Tih-Shih Lee,1,2 MD, PhD, FRCP (C), Beng-Yeong Ng,1 MBBS, MMed (Psych), FAMS

1 Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital,…

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Kevin Granata, PhD (December 29, 1961-April 16, 2007)
[Obituary]

Marras, William S. PhD; Stokes, Ian A. F. PhD; Abel, Mark F. MD

Address correspondence to William S. Marras, PhD, E-mail: marras.1@osu.edu; Ian…

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By Larry Hincker

BLACKSBURG, Va., August 22, 2007 -- On May 9, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger directed three internal reviews in the wake of the April 16 tragedy on the Virginia Tech campus. He directed the chairs "to look at…

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In wake of tragedy, nation is encouraged to focus on heroic victims of school shooting

By: Megan Cox
Posted: 4/20/07

A great atrocity occurred in Blacksburg on the morning of April 16. Cho Seung-Hui, a Korean-born English major at Virginia…

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As Tulane officials rethink security policies, some Tulane students express personal grief over Monday's events
By: Marta Dehmlow
Posted: 4/20/07

Students at Virginia Tech and all over the nation will remember April 16 as a day that…

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Mass Shootings at Virginia Tech
April 16, 2007

Report of the Review Panel

Presented to

Governor Kaine
Commonwealth of Virginia
August 2007

Cover (pdf, 224kb)

Inside Cover (pdf, 39kb)

Table of Contents (pdf, 52kb)

Dedication…

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Consolation during the August 19th memorial dedication

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By:Editorial Staff
Posted: 8/29/07

This summer, University Police, in cooperation with Information Services and University Communications, implemented a new software system called UNLAlert, most likely in response to the April shootings at…

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By: Ryan Norman
Posted: 8/23/07
With the looming arrival of the fall semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University Police are preparing for the increased number of on-campus students.

University Police are hoping to stay ahead of…

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By: Jay Carlson / Junior electrical engineering and mathematics major
Posted: 8/6/07
While watching the evening news this week, we heard brilliant accounts of heroism in response to the Interstate 35W bridge collapse into the Mississippi River.…

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By: Andy Boyle
Posted: 4/30/07
Bomb threats, drunken drivers, pot smokers and thieves.

Those are just of the few problems university police dealt with during the past year.

Capt. Carl Oestmann of University Police said he thinks major…

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