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A group of friends from Blacksburg High attending the Candlelight Vigil the day after the tragedy.

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One of the many trees on the drillfield wrapped in remembrance.

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American and VT Pride

One of the Hokie Birds wearing a maroon and orange ribbon.

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Hokie Hope Day at GEICO in Fredericksburg, VA

My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of our lost Hokies. This has been a very difficult time for all of us. The memorial issue of Virginia Tech magazine was done very nicely and inspired me to share our support. I am a 1992…

Tags: alumni, fredericksburg, geico, hokie hope

Entre Moynihan y Librescu

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

Sobre los defensores selectivos de derechos humanos, que son permisivos sÃ³lo con dictaduras.

Borges advertÃa de no convertir la Ã©tica en una rama de la…

Tags: amnista internacional, amnon vidan, centro de asuntos pblicos de jerusalm, daniel patrick moynihan, hezbol, israel, lbano, librescu, onu, sudn

Otra vez el holocausto

Por Carlos Alberto Montaner
1 de mayo de 2007

Cuando Seung-Hui Cho fue a entrar pistola en mano en la clase de aeronÃ¡utica para asesinar a sus condiscÃpulos en Virginia Tech, el profesor Liviu Librescu, un anciano de 76 aÃ±os, menudo de cuerpo…

Tags: hitler, holocausto, librescu, odio racial, rumana

Tiroteos, otra herencia de los sesenta

Por Thomas Sowell
28 de abril de 2007

Â¿CuÃ¡ndo ha abierto fuego un asesino mÃºltiple contra una reuniÃ³n de la AsociaciÃ³n Nacional del Rifle o contra un grupo de cazadores? Alguien decÃa recientemente que masacres como las de Virginia Tech o…

Tags: asociacin nacional del rifle, control de las armas, dogmas de los aos sesenta, kennedy, lyndon johnson, martin luther king, otto kerner

De armas y hÃ©roes

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

DespuÃ©s de mucho escrutar con atenciÃ³n buena parte de las reacciones que se sucedieron a raÃz de la masacre en la Universidad de Virginia Tech en Estados Unidos, me surgen dos consideraciones.…

Tags: adams, algernon sydney, armas, blakstone, castro, csar beccara, edward coke, george mason, george washington, hitler, hroes, hugo grotius, jellinek, librescu, locke, mao, montesquieu, mussolini, patrick henry, thomas jefferson, tributo

Â¿CuÃ¡l es la Enmienda que mÃ¡s importa?

Por Charles PeÃ±a
2 de junio de 2007

No es ninguna sorpresa que a raÃz 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…

Tags: dennis kucinich, harkrader, john edwards, john mccain, ley patriota, segunda enmienda

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

Commonwealth

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…

Tags: sympathy, unity, uva

So it goes

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…

Tags: death, mortality, uva

The forest for the trees

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…

Tags: gun control, media response, uva

Mourners pack Tech after attack

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…

Tags: memorials, mourning, uva, vigil

Students rally against religious protestors at Tech funerals

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…

Tags: facebook, fundamentalism, protest, uva

Rivals in mourning

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…

Tags: sports rivalry, support, sympathy, uva

Caso Cho

Creado por Julio SuÃ¡rez Anturi
20 de abril de 2007

SÃ, muchas cosas resultan increÃbles 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…

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Masacre de Virginia Tech (poema)

Creado por HÃ©ctor GonzÃ¡lez AvilÃ©s
09/06/2007 a las 04:26 PM

El diecinueve de abril
del aÃ±o dos mil siete,
un coreano desquiciado,
enajenado por entes satÃ¡nicas,
acribillÃ³ a tiros en su universidad,
a sus compaÃ±eros, dÃ¡ndoles…

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El Movimiento Naranja en la Red

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

Veintitres aÃ±os. Treinta y dos cadÃ¡veres. Una Universidad y un resentimiento compartido que vuelve a reabrir el debate sobre las armas de fuego en los Estados Unidos de AmÃ©rica y su uso tan poco…

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Hoos for Hokies

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…

Tags: community support, hoos for hokies, outreach, sympathy, uva

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