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Today we are all Hokies

A large tree on the Virginia Tech campus has a simple orange ribbon tied around it.

Original source: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53546156/

Photo Courtesy of Kristina Cummins

Tags: memorial, orange ribbon, ribbon, tree

We are Virginia Tech

Message boards filled with comments are stationed on the drill field.

Original source: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53546019/

Photo Courtesy of Kristina Cummins

Tags: memorial, message boards, messages, signed boards

Hokies United

A large tree on the Virginia Tech campus has several ribbons tied around it.

Original source: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53545565/

Photo Courtesy of Kristina Cummins

Tags: memorial, ribbon, tree

LETTER: Good coverage is worthwhile

By:Kyle Cheney
Posted: 4/19/07

Adan Berkowitz's disdain for the very media that gives him a voice is an alarmingly narrow-minded generalization. ("A campus in grief distracted by media attack," April 18, p. 9). While sensationalism is all too…

Tags: media coverage, news, sensationalism, boston university

Stop To Remember Our True Heroes

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…

Tags: university of connecticut

Las caras inmigrantes de la masacre de Virginia Tech

Publicado por La bloguera en Mayo 2, 2007 04:24 PM

La peor masacre escolar en la historia de Estados Unidos, que dejÃ³ un saldo de 33 muertos en la Universidad de Virginia Tech, ha generado mÃ¡s interrogantes que respuestas, y mientras la naciÃ³n…

Tags: emigracion, inmigrante, librescu, ortiz, perez

Legisladores sÃ³lo piden mayor control sobre las â€˜personas peligrosasâ€™ en EE.UU.

Publicado por La Raza Newspaper
06-14-2007

Washington, D.C. (EFE).â€” Un comitÃ© creado por el presidente de Estados Unidos, George W. Bush, para estudiar la matanza en la Universidad virginia tech recomendÃ³ ayer controlar mejor a las "personas…

Tags: armas, fbi, gonzales, leavitt, nics, problemas mentales, spellings, virginia

Luto en el paÃs por matanza en Virginia

Identifican al agresor como un estudiante de Corea del Sur.

Publicado por Diario la Raza
04-18-2007

Washington, D.C. â€” La policÃa de EE.UU. identificÃ³ como el autor de la matanza en la universidad virginia tech al estudiante surcoreano…

Tags: bishop, bush, cho, flaherty, librescu, ortiz, pÃ©rez, vega

Self-defense a necessary skill to know during times of danger

Guest commentary
By: Lach R. Liwer |
Issue date: 4/23/07 Section: Commentary

This week we witnessed a brutal act of violence directed randomly at unsuspecting students of Virginia Tech University. Seung-Hui Cho, a VT student, shot nearly 45…

Tags: self-defense, university of oregon

The Ides of April

Waco, TX. Oklahoma City, OK. Columbine, CO. Blacksburg, VA.

Fifteen years ago, a person could have looked at those four cities and wondered why they have been grouped together. None of these places had anything in common. Most people might not…

Tags: april, ides

Mantras can't make miracles

Although meditation can help ease stress, it won't cure what really ails students, society

By Lara Loewenstein
Thursday, May 3, 2007

Film director David Lynch has the answer to the itching question of how to stop school shootings forever -…

Tags: meditation, stress management, ucla

Universities must learn from handling of shooting

UCLA, other schools should take time now to improve their emergency alert systems

By Lara Loewenstein
Thursday, April 19, 2007

There are a few questions that have been circulating with regard to the Virginia Tech shootings. How many lives…

Tags: campus security, crisis response, security concerns, ucla, university response

President Steger addresses Virginia Tech Review Panel

By Larry Hincker

BLACKSBURG, Va., May 10, 2007 -- Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger addressed the Virginia Tech Review Panel here Thursday. These were his comments.

Governor Kaine, Colonel Massengill, and members of the…

Tags: address, may 10, review panel, steger, vtreviewpanelorg

Overview of the findings and recommendations of the April 16 tragedy internal review committees

By Larry Hincker

BLACKSBURG, Va., August 22, 2007 -- On May 9, 2007, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger directed three internal reviews in the wake of the April 16 tragedy on the Virginia Tech campus. He directed the chairs "to look at…

Tags: findings, information and communications infrastructure, internal review committees, recommendations, reports, security intrastructure, statements

Board of Visitors reviews blueprint for analyzing April 16 recommendations

By Larry Hincker

BLACKSBURG, Va., September 25, 2007 -- The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors received a briefing at a special meeting September 23 on how the university plans to evaluate the hundreds of recommendations resulting from various…

Tags: board of visitors, bov, recommendations, reports, review committees

Fred Phelps And A Final Farewell

By: Laura Alix
Posted: 4/23/07

So this is it - my final column for The Daily Campus. Over the past few weeks, I've been pondering whether I should write a more traditional "farewell" column or whether I should just do what I've been doing…

Tags: university of connecticut

a hug for Va Tech

Artist's Comments

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

Virginia shooting shows need for safety awareness on college campuses

By: Laura Chapman
Posted: 4/17/07
The university community was stunned Monday morning when a gunman killed more than 30 people, including students, at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va.

Though more than 1,000 miles separate the…

Tags: university of nebraska

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Moment de comemorare a studentilor de la universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi pentru studentii de la Virginia Tech - vineri, 20 aprilie 2007

Moment of commemoration from the students and faculty of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania…

Tags: alexandru ioan cuza, librescu, omagiu

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Moment de comemorare a studentilor de la universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi pentru studentii de la Virginia Tech - vineri, 20 aprilie 2007

Moment of commemoration from the students and faculty of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania…

Tags: alexandru ioan cuza, librescu, omagiu

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