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Several police officers (both local and state) are visible and present during the convocation.

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By: Editorial Board
Posted: 4/19/07

With the tragedy that occurred on the Virginia Tech campus on Monday we are forced to ask hard questions about the safety of students here at UR. Surely, as statistics show, we live on a very safe campus, even…

Why must we pay the price
For others sins and vice?
As I lay dying here, I cry.
I wonder, Why, why, why?
~Joseph M. Skipsey, April 23rd, 2007

Of Shooters and Schools

Can video games make kids more violent? A new study employing…

Kevin Granata, who began his professional career at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, was among those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16. A professor of engineering science and mechanics, he was considered one of the…

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Memorial stone of Daniel Patrick O'Neil on 4/16/08.

Photo by Brian Sewell.

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De, Silvia Vrinceanu Nichita | 01.05.2007

Focsanenii emigrati in Israel cer municipalitatii ca o strada din Focsani sa poarte numele profesorului erou din America, Liviu Librescu u dascalul care s-a sacrificat pentru propriii studenti a copilarit…

By: Nick Brennan
Posted: 4/18/07
As the country begins the process of healing in the aftermath of Monday morning's shootings at Virginia Tech, NYU students are showing support for the massacre's victims.

Several student government groups…

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This collection of photos of messages of support from throughout the New River Valley hangs outside the Perspective Gallery of Squires Student center from April 5-20 2008.

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Sign affixed to doors of Torgersen Hall. By the time that this photo was taken, virtually all buildings on campus had signs like this on all entrances. Photo taken Friday, April 20.

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I was very touched by a note written by a child that was left at West AJ.

A student perspective

By: Bryan Schamus


(June 6) I will admit that I once uttered the statement, "There is no way any student should have to walk through that building again."

Norris Hall being "that building" - the site on campus at…

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Norris Hall is gated off and closed to the public.

Photo Courtesy of Garry Thompson

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Two individual look upon Norris Hall where the shootings occurred.

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Photo Courtesy of Mark Ritchie

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The location of the second shooting has become a memorial site.

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Photo courtesy of Frank Eak

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Norris Hall has been sealed off as the police conduct its investigation.

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Photo courtesy of Frank Eak

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Flowers on a low wall in front of Norris Hall. Photo taken April 15, 2008.


Photo by Brent Jesiek.

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A sign posted on a door to Cheatham Hall directing students from Norris to their new classrooms in the aftermath

My wife and I went up to VT for a 4 day weekend, and to the German Club 115th anniversary. We toured campus and sat on the steps of Burruss Hall Saturday afternoon. We left Sunday afternoon, only to return to Houston - to find news of a much…

April 23, 2007

Filed under: Feminism, Minnesota Monitor, Virginia Tech — Jeff Fecke @ 12:21 pm

It is human nature to try to figure out why bad things happen. Long ago, we blamed natural disasters on the capriciousness of the gods. The flood…

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Tape that surrounds Norris (where the second shooting took place at VT). Burruss (another building on campus) is in the background. I still can't believe this happened at my school and that now one of the buildings I pass every day is a crime…
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