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Obituary: Former APL Staff Member Among Virginia Tech Shooting Victims
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…
Tags: johns hopkins, kevin granata, obituary
Of Shooters and Schools
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…
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…
Tags: commentary, video games, violence
Officer Enabling
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…
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…
Tags: university of rochester
Officers waiting for the President
Several police officers (both local and state) are visible and present during the convocation.
Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndicken/464088526/
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs 2.0
Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndicken/464088526/
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs 2.0
Tags: convocation, police, president bush, protection, security
Officials examine ways to make school safer
By Joe Cressman
Elmhurst Press
Tue Apr 24, 2007, 04:35 PM CDT
ELMHURST, IL - The April 16 tragedy at Virginia Tech has Elmhurst College officials looking at ways they can make their own campus more secure.
One of those ways is to teach the…
Elmhurst Press
Tue Apr 24, 2007, 04:35 PM CDT
ELMHURST, IL - The April 16 tragedy at Virginia Tech has Elmhurst College officials looking at ways they can make their own campus more secure.
One of those ways is to teach the…
Tags: elmhurst press, risk, safety, security
Omar Samaha Speaks at Lie-In
Omar Samaha, brother of April 16 victim Reema Samaha, speaks at a student "lie-in" on the drillfield on April 16, 2008, A Day of Remembrance. Organized by Virginia Tech senior Alison St. Onge, the lie-in was designed as both a memorial to the victims…
Tags: anniversary, Drillfield, lie-in, samaha, st. onge
On "terror"
Many Americans have once again been plunged into terror since a gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history, and a string of endless media reports, the gunman's cruel, merciless confessions…
On behalf of Virginia Tech students
To the students and administration of the University of Virginia: On behalf of 30,000 students, administrators, and our Virginia Tech community, I cannot begin to express our gratitude for the outpouring of sympathy, support, and concern that U.Va.…
Tags: sympathy, thanks, uva, vt response
On Being A College Professor after the VT Massacre
Thursday, April 19, 2007
I had nightmares about the VT massacre last night. It was on a two day delay. I knew that eventually the horror of what had happened would start to eat away at me. In part, I think my dreams haunted me precisely because…
I had nightmares about the VT massacre last night. It was on a two day delay. I knew that eventually the horror of what had happened would start to eat away at me. In part, I think my dreams haunted me precisely because…
Tags: blog, commentary, professor
On One Year Anniversary of VT, Many Move On But Remember
By Can Tran April 16, 2008
April 16, 2008, marks the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre as Korean student Cho Seung-hui in a fit of madness and depression went on a shooting rampage as he took the lives of thirty-two students…
April 16, 2008, marks the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre as Korean student Cho Seung-hui in a fit of madness and depression went on a shooting rampage as he took the lives of thirty-two students…
Tags: anniversary, cho, gun rights, nra
On the Ethics of Bad News
[This is a copy of my initial reaction to the media coverage of the VTech shooting, posted on my Wordpress blog. Unfortunately both links are now defunct - I wish I had saved a page of the "godblessvtech" blog, because it was to me a poignant…
Tags: blog, cnn, digital network, media coverage, online community
On the Forbidden Subject of Culture
April 19, 2007
UPDATE:
Thanks for the various thoughtful comments, thoughtful commenters - I'm sure you know who you are.
First off, I do acknowledge that I was a little snarky and "aha!" in the initial reaction to things, and I agree…
UPDATE:
Thanks for the various thoughtful comments, thoughtful commenters - I'm sure you know who you are.
First off, I do acknowledge that I was a little snarky and "aha!" in the initial reaction to things, and I agree…
on the VT massacre
17 April 2007
The talking heads keep talking about the "VT Massacre", not that it doesn't deserve attention, but this is too much attention. And VT is getting a bad wrap unfairly on one specific point: the notification of students on campus as…
The talking heads keep talking about the "VT Massacre", not that it doesn't deserve attention, but this is too much attention. And VT is getting a bad wrap unfairly on one specific point: the notification of students on campus as…
Tags: blog, clark, reaction, ryan clark, stack
On Virginia Tech anniversary, Saugus mom lobbies for changes
By Mike Gaffney
GateHouse News Service
Posted Apr 16, 2008 @ 01:37 PM
SAUGUS —
A year after she lost her son Ross in the Virginia Tech shootings, Lynnette Alameddine is fighting for legislation that would require universities to issue…
GateHouse News Service
Posted Apr 16, 2008 @ 01:37 PM
SAUGUS —
A year after she lost her son Ross in the Virginia Tech shootings, Lynnette Alameddine is fighting for legislation that would require universities to issue…
On-campus mental illness issues unique
By Dick Durbin
RRSTAR.COM
Posted Apr 17, 2008 @ 10:59 PM
This week, our nation marked the anniversary of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech that took 32 lives and wounded 17 other people. Just two months ago, our state was stunned to witness…
RRSTAR.COM
Posted Apr 17, 2008 @ 10:59 PM
This week, our nation marked the anniversary of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech that took 32 lives and wounded 17 other people. Just two months ago, our state was stunned to witness…