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Status Anxiety and What Happened at Virginia Tech Pt. 1
By now the mass media has inundated you with coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre, but I don't want to rehash the details of the event. I want to take a deeper look at a possible motive. Some people will argue about gun control, or the failure…
Tags: blog, status anxiety, students
Status Anxiety Pt. 2: How Did We Get Here...How Do We Get Out
Yesterday we talked about Status Anxiety and how it related to the Virginia Tech shootings. Today we continue talking about it and focus in on Alain de Button's book by the same title Status Anxiety.
Part of understanding Status anxiety is…
Part of understanding Status anxiety is…
Tags: blog, gospels, meritocracy, status anxiety, students
Steger
2007.04.17.
The crowd at the Lane stadium is watching the broadcast of the Virginia Tech President Charles Steger speech at the convocation.
Photo courtesy of Ivan V. Morozov
The crowd at the Lane stadium is watching the broadcast of the Virginia Tech President Charles Steger speech at the convocation.
Photo courtesy of Ivan V. Morozov
Tags: charles steger, convocation, lane stadium
Still Strong
Taken almost 10 months after the tragedy, the memorial still stands as a symbol of hope.
Tags: intermedia memorial, memorial
Still waiting for our victory
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…
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…
Tags: 9/11, facebook, jfk, media, notre dame, students abroad
Stones in Hand
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…
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…
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…
Stretching with Hokie Bird
Yankees warm up with the Hokie Bird.
Photo by George Norton.
Photo by George Norton.
Tags: baseball game, english field, hokie bird, yankees
Strong Stone
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…
at the broken…
Tags: anniversary, remembering through art, stones
Student looks at Norris Hall
(April 18, 2007) A student looks toward the side of Norris Hall.
Photo courtesy of Brent Jesiek.
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Photo courtesy of Brent Jesiek.
Licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Tags: norris hall
Student Mental Health Problems Rise at C.U.
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…
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…
Tags: cornell, mental health
Student privacy under scrutiny
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…
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…
Tags: mental health, privacy, unc
Students
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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Tags: logo, pittsburg university