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Cho Seung-Hui: A Lone Deranged Gunman?
As all of America mourns the deaths which occurred on the Virginia Tech campus, bloggers are drawing comparisons to the body count that issues daily from Iraq. See a particularly poignant post from Floyd Rudmin of…
Tags: blog, cho, commentary, mental health, mental illness
Mental Health is Everyone's Business
Mental Health is Everyone's Business: Historical Reflections on the Virginia Tech Shootings
By Heather Munro Prescott
Ms. Prescott is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. Her book, Student Bodies: The…
Tags: disability rights, history, mental health
Coding Gun Control
A report in today's New York Times illustrates both the promise and the difficulties of (legal) code as (software) code (U.S. Rules Made Killer Ineligible to Purchase Gun).…
Tags: blog, law, mental illness
Second Life Virginia Tech Memorial
95 words posted by Mark Bard at 11:19 AM
The Librarians of Second Life have constructed a virtual memorial on Info Island to commemorate the victims of Virginia Tech. Pictures of the victims are displayed on a wall, and when visitors…
Tags: memorial, second life, virtual
Korean Reaction to VA Tech Shootings: Guilt vs. Solidarity
At the risk of overanalyzing the events surrounding the shootings at Virginia Tech last week, I would like to offer one last set of observations. In my previous posts, I've acknowledged that certainly, there are many…
Tags: blog, cho, korean, korean american, reaction
Immigrant Status of VA Tech Gunman: Does it Matter?
Following up on my last post about Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech gunman, the evidence that’s coming out seems to suggest that among other things, he felt ridiculed for his social class background (at least in…
Asian Identity of Virginia Tech Gunman
By now, I’m sure everybody has heard of the tragedy that took place yesterday, Monday April 16, at Virginia Tech University. Words cannot adequately convey the profound shock and sadness that I feel about this…
Tags: asian, asian american, blog, cho, reaction
a hug for Va Tech
i took this at the covocation at virginia tech. there were thousands and thousands of people there--too many to fit in the castle where the speeches of important figures were live. the rest of us that couldn't fit were…
Tags: april 17, convocation, hug, stadium
Memorial Day
It's Memorial Day and I'm in the office, so of course I'm looking for ways to procrastinate. New post time!
After the VT tragedy, a local church put up 32 (by my count) flag poles in…
Tags: memorials, representation
The vanity of reason: making sense of the Virginia Tech tragedy
Soon after an initial outpouring of shock and grief at the senseless murder of 32 members of the Virginia Tech community, we began seeking explanations for the tragedy. By all accounts Seung-Hui Cho,…
Tags: blog, commentary, mental health, mental illness
too much coverage of the Virginia Tech tragedy
The amount of coverage has been staggering--dozens of stories per day in the top national newspapers, nightly broadcast news programs that are lengthened by half an hour, 24-hour repetitions of the same information on cable news,…
Tags: blog, commentary, media
You vs. MSM in Va Tech Shooting Coverage
As the terrible story of the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus began to unfold last week, the tens of thousands of moving pieces that make up the main stream media were kicked into high gear. The effort…
Tags: blog, citizen journalists, commentary, coverage, media
Virginia Tech Candlelight Vigil-OSU
I don't think I've ever been as affected by a shooting as the Virginia Tech tragedy two days ago. Possibly because it's was the…
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Mattthew Gwaltney
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Tags: gwaltney, hokie rock, Hokie stone, mattthew gwaltnev, memorial, rock, stone
Blacksburg
This past weekend was the middle weekend of April. That's the time universities put on dog-and-pony shows for students who have been admitted, to help them make up their minds.
My daughter has been…
Tags: blog, campus visit, orientation, parent
Blacksburg, violence, and America
I have been on the sidelines of quite a number of handgun deaths in my life. Thank God, I haven't really been in the crossfire, nor has any member of my family. But gun violence has come close enough to me…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control, reaction
Virginia Tech Redux: Did the Old Media Lose it in Blacksburg?
As the words continue to flow along with the tears after the deaths at Virginia Tech, one important observation rises above the ruins: the incident represented a triumph for what the pundits term the New Media over the Old. The keys…
Tags: blog, citizen, commentary, journalism, journalists, media, new media, old media
In Memoriam: Virginia Tech, April 16, 2007
As one who worked with school districts across the country, I know the issue of school shootings is every school official's nightmare. The apparent random nature of all the shootings only makes the nightmare more fearful, for…
Tags: blog, commentary, reaction, reflection, school shootings, schools