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Cho '04 calls campus friend
Comments to Manna adviser offer first glimpse of Cho family reaction
By Doug Eshleman
Princetonian Staff Writer
While family members of the Virginia Tech gunman have secluded themselves during the last three days to avoid media attention,…
By Doug Eshleman
Princetonian Staff Writer
While family members of the Virginia Tech gunman have secluded themselves during the last three days to avoid media attention,…
Tags: cho family response, princeton, sunkyung cho
Would Public Safety be able to prevent a shooting?
By Owen Fletcher
Princetonian Staff Writer
About a week before last week's shootings at Virginia Tech, the University made the prescient purchase of a mass alert system to notify students of campus security crises.
The…
Princetonian Staff Writer
About a week before last week's shootings at Virginia Tech, the University made the prescient purchase of a mass alert system to notify students of campus security crises.
The…
Tags: campus safety, princeton, warning systems
Prof. Newman: Self-image drove Va. Tech shooter
By Sam Fox Krauss
Princetonian Staff Writer
Students who kill their classmates are motivated by a desire to change their reputation, Wilson School professor Katherine Newman and politics professor Keith Whittington told about 50 students and…
Princetonian Staff Writer
Students who kill their classmates are motivated by a desire to change their reputation, Wilson School professor Katherine Newman and politics professor Keith Whittington told about 50 students and…
Tragedy hits close to home
Campus comes together to mourn victims of shooting
By Cornelia Hall
Princetonian Staff Writer
Photo by Gabriela Aoun
Students gathered in Richardson Auditorium last night for a service in memory of the victims of Monday's shootings…
By Cornelia Hall
Princetonian Staff Writer
Photo by Gabriela Aoun
Students gathered in Richardson Auditorium last night for a service in memory of the victims of Monday's shootings…
Tags: memorial service, princeton, vigil
Shooting points to need for less restrictive gun laws
By: Danny Mistarz
Posted: 4/24/07
After the tragic events that took place at Virginia Tech April 16, the anti-Second Amendment crowd has once again reared its ugly head. The usual claims of guns causing violence and the necessity to ban personal…
Posted: 4/24/07
After the tragic events that took place at Virginia Tech April 16, the anti-Second Amendment crowd has once again reared its ugly head. The usual claims of guns causing violence and the necessity to ban personal…
Tags: duke, gun control, law
Bomb threat deemed no hazard
By: Zak Kazzaz
Posted: 4/23/07
Early Friday morning, Duke University Police Department received an anonymous bomb threat for Bell Tower Dormitory and another building, which does not exist.
The threat-received through a telecommunications device…
Posted: 4/23/07
Early Friday morning, Duke University Police Department received an anonymous bomb threat for Bell Tower Dormitory and another building, which does not exist.
The threat-received through a telecommunications device…
Tags: bomb threat, campus security, duke
Council hears Duke safety plans
By: Eugene Wang
Posted: 4/20/07
Executive Vice President Tallman Trask spoke about Duke's emergency response system and Jo Rae Wright, dean of the Graduate School, reported on the future of the school at the Academic Council's meeting…
Posted: 4/20/07
Executive Vice President Tallman Trask spoke about Duke's emergency response system and Jo Rae Wright, dean of the Graduate School, reported on the future of the school at the Academic Council's meeting…
Tags: campus security, community response, duke
Asians fear alienation, scrutiny
By: Anna Lieth
Posted: 4/20/07
Days after the Virginia Tech shooter was identified as a Korean-American male by national media outlets, members of Duke's Asian Students Association gathered Thursday night to discuss the possible backlashes the…
Posted: 4/20/07
Days after the Virginia Tech shooter was identified as a Korean-American male by national media outlets, members of Duke's Asian Students Association gathered Thursday night to discuss the possible backlashes the…
Tags: backlash, duke, ethnic identity
Documentary news?
By: Sarah Ball
By now, there isn't a soul in the United States who hasn't seen the greasy, glinting forehead of Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman responsible for what broadcast news and the blogosphere are terming "the Virginia Tech Massacre."…
By now, there isn't a soul in the United States who hasn't seen the greasy, glinting forehead of Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman responsible for what broadcast news and the blogosphere are terming "the Virginia Tech Massacre."…
Tags: duke, media coverage, new media
Security, Duke response raise some concerns
By: Zak Kazzaz
Posted: 4/18/07
Two days after the Monday massacre at Virginia Tech, students nationwide remained on edge Tuesday as more details of the tragedy emerged and additional security threats occurred on several other college campuses.
A…
Posted: 4/18/07
Two days after the Monday massacre at Virginia Tech, students nationwide remained on edge Tuesday as more details of the tragedy emerged and additional security threats occurred on several other college campuses.
A…
Tags: campus security, community response, duke
Distraught, Duke asks questions
2 days later, campus still rattled by tragedy
By: Kristen Davis
Posted: 4/18/07
More than a hundred students, faculty and administrators bowed their heads in silence at 2 p.m. Tuesday, as the Duke Chapel bell tolled 33 times-once for each…
By: Kristen Davis
Posted: 4/18/07
More than a hundred students, faculty and administrators bowed their heads in silence at 2 p.m. Tuesday, as the Duke Chapel bell tolled 33 times-once for each…
Tags: community response, duke, grief
32 killed in Virginia Tech massacre
200 miles away, Duke students hold vigil, admins offer support
By: Anna Lieth
Posted: 4/17/07
After violent shootings shook students and administrators on Virginia Tech's campus Monday, members of the Duke community gathered last night to…
By: Anna Lieth
Posted: 4/17/07
After violent shootings shook students and administrators on Virginia Tech's campus Monday, members of the Duke community gathered last night to…
Tags: community response, duke, university response, vigil
Duke's response to VaTech tragedy lacking
Editorial
Posted: 4/19/07
When news of the Virginia Tech massacre broke Monday, to say that students across the country were on edge is an understatement. The horror and randomness of the event forced students to take a step back and examine…
Posted: 4/19/07
When news of the Virginia Tech massacre broke Monday, to say that students across the country were on edge is an understatement. The horror and randomness of the event forced students to take a step back and examine…
Tags: campus response, duke, editorial
Released from lockdown
By: Shamus Williams
(April 16) Well, I'm back safe and sound in my off-campus apartment. It has been a very scary and hectic past couple of hours to say the least.
We were released at noon, but it was not an assisted evacuation as we…
(April 16) Well, I'm back safe and sound in my off-campus apartment. It has been a very scary and hectic past couple of hours to say the least.
We were released at noon, but it was not an assisted evacuation as we…
Tags: big lick u, student response, vt campus
In lockdown in Shanks Hall
By: Shamus Williams
(April 16 -- 11:55 a.m.) I am on campus as we speak and am under lockdown in Shanks Hall, which is located on the opposite side of campus from the shootings. But it is still too close for comfort.
I was in class, working…
(April 16 -- 11:55 a.m.) I am on campus as we speak and am under lockdown in Shanks Hall, which is located on the opposite side of campus from the shootings. But it is still too close for comfort.
I was in class, working…
Tags: big lick u, student response, vt campus