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Aug. 20, 2007
By Claire St. Amant

City editor


In Texas, it isn't surprising to see cowboy hats, belt buckles and boots glistening under the sun. But there's one piece missing from the cowboy ensemble when Texans mosey on over to…

Aug. 20, 2007
By Claire St. Amant

City editor


In Texas, it isn't surprising to see cowboy hats, belt buckles and boots glistening under the sun. But there's one piece missing from the cowboy ensemble when Texans mosey on over to…

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On Monday, April 16, 2007, I was in New Orleans at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). This is a list of students I was able to contact between 10:08 am (when I received an email from a student…

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Students gathered along the Spring Road and Merryman Center to greet the Presidential motorcade.

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Photo of a Candlelight Vigil that was held on Pittsburgh University, Monday April 23, 2007, just a week after the tragedy on Virginia Tech campus. Students spell out the logo of Virginia Tech

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Shooting sparks national debate

By: Eric Johnson, Senior Writer
Posted: 5/24/07

Congress is wading into the turbulent debate about campus safety in the aftermath of last month's shootings at Virginia Tech and is considering possible…

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By Gallagher Hannan
Sun Staff Writer
May 3 2007

The tragedy at Virginia Tech has put the entire college community on edge. Although it is clear that this incident was isolated, it has raised important questions about the prevalence of high…

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(April 18, 2007) A student looks toward the side of Norris Hall.

Photo courtesy of Brent Jesiek.

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Memorial stones dry in the sun on the afternoon of April 16, 2008, A Day of Remembrance. The stones were painted at a "Remembering Through Art Creation" event in Squires Student Center. The stone in the center reads, "Forever STRONG
at the broken…

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Yankees warm up with the Hokie Bird.

Photo by George Norton.

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I put this page together for the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier for the April 18 issue, including a Hokie hope ribbon logo I made myself to accompany any stories about the Tech tragedy.

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I put this page together for the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier for the April 18 issue, including a Hokie hope ribbon logo I made myself to accompany any stories about the Tech tragedy.

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…

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

While we spent the last two weeks railing at each other about racial insults, sexist jokes, hip hop music, apologies that won't fly, and weighty matters related to the First Amendment, a deranged college student sat…

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Some of the friends and family members of April 16 victims, including the cadet shown here, wait with hokie stones in hand during the dedication ceremony for the intermediate memorial. The stones were taken from the original memorial that sprang up…

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Memorial Stones in front of Burruss during the first week after the tragedy.

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People volunteered to set up a stone marked with "VT" for other people to light candles.

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Observer Viewpoint
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: Viewpoint

Anyone old enough to speak coherently at the time still remembers the moment, over forty years ago, when they heard about JFK's assassination. Our grandparents can tell us how they…

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Taken almost 10 months after the tragedy, the memorial still stands as a symbol of hope.

By Evan Cohen
PUBLISHED APRIL 26, 2007

Eleven years ago, I played in a band that rehearsed in a basement downtown. On one side of the basement was an illegal two-bedroom apartment that the landlord slapped together with drywall. My friend Matt…
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