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Tragedy In Virginia As Some Fail To Draw Conclusions From VTech Massacre
Point Five Staff Writer @ 4:51 pm
April 16, 2007
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Fears Raised That Details Of Shooting Might Be Released Into Context-Free Void
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A massacre at Virginia Tech took the lives of 32 on Monday. But as the sun set, and sketchy…
Tags: blog, commentary, satire
Massacre at Virginia Tech: Let the Media Exploitation Begin
I hate it how, whenever we have a national tragedy, journos just eat it up. The TV stations make logos for it, and slogans like "Massacre at Virginia Tech" that become ominous jingles as the…
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A Sweet Student/Alumni Party
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Tags: alumni festival, april 22, student festival
Crime scene Tape
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Awesome
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Tags: memorial, messages, signed boards
We Are Virginia Tech
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Tags: drill field, memorial, we are virginia tech
It's time to confront the gun lobby
The senseless murder of 32 people at Virginia Tech underlines once again the necessity for stricter gun control laws in the United States.
Americans are busily soul searching one more time…
Tags: commentary, gun control, laws
Mariacristina Blog Archive for Virginia Tech
April 29, 2007 at 3:28 pm · Filed under Virginia Tech, compassion, meditation, violence
I need to be hit with a ton of bricks for a message to sink in. For a long time I've spoken about gun control, nuclear…
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VT Massacre: Could it Happen at Hampden-Sydney???
Would this have happened at a school like Hampden-Sydney? That is the question.
And the answer must be dealt with delicately, in the aftermath of such a horrendous massacre that hopefully…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control, hampdensydney
People Already Profiting from Virginia Tech Shooting (Updated)
Normally that would take at least a couple days.
The sad state of the domain squatting industry, and society in general, is that after a horrible shooting a bunch of "business people" sprint to grab up every VT…
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Virginia Tech Massacre
There's a lot of idle chatter regarding whether or not Virginia…
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Beyond Words
I am honestly at a loss for what to say about the events that unfolded on the Virginia Tech campus this morning. I was walking across the Drillfield towards GBJ when firing broke out in Norris hall. I had heard nothing…
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How to Stop a Killer
The tragic massacre this week at Virginia Tech will be one of those events that you will remember how you first heard the news, where you were when you heard it, and what you were doing at the time. Like September 11, 2001,…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control
What could have been done to prevent to massacre at Virginia Tech?
Filed: Thursday April 19th 2007, 9:05 AM
In the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech on Monday, April 16, many asked how such a thing could have happened. It was the deadliest shooting spree in American history, and already there…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control, laws, prevent
University Homicide: Trauma Revisited
Yesterday, as I sat in the lobby of the Elizabeth Detention Center waiting to testify at a hearing, I learned about the violent incident that took place in Virginia. A small flat-screen…
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Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre
Television has once again gone on a rampage of gluttony over the tragic murders at Virginia Tech. However, it depends on your definition of what constitutes gluttony and what kind of TV you're talking…
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Gut Reactions
1. Race Shame
As soon as I saw the shooter's name--Cho Seung-Hui--in the NYT this morning, I knew he was Korean. Crap. Ever since I got home last night after teaching, and my husband told me about the deadly…
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What's "Korean" got to do with it?
When I was growing up in the 80s, it often seemed that the world was holding its breath, keeping its fingers crossed to prevent some sort of nuclear disaster. The apocalypse that I imagined then had to do with the world…
What Cho learned
Friday
Natalie Solent (Essex)
Nikki Giovanni found one of her Creative Writing students a trial.
"And every class I'm saying, 'Mr. Cho, take off your (sun)-glasses please, take your hat off please. Mr. Cho, that's not a…
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