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University Police beef up training, introduce new technology
Posted: 8/23/07
With the looming arrival of the fall semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University Police are preparing for the increased number of on-campus students.
University Police are hoping to stay ahead of…
Tags: university of nebraska
Church continues to carry on without pastor
Posted: 4/25/07
Events such as the Virginia Tech shooting can be hard on some students. Besides psychological services, students seeking counseling can also find help at campus ministries.
Cornerstone Church at the University of…
Tags: university of nebraska
Gut Reactions
1. Race Shame
As soon as I saw the shooter's name--Cho Seung-Hui--in the NYT this morning, I knew he was Korean. Crap. Ever since I got home last night after teaching, and my husband told me about the deadly…
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Librescu Day
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Jun 8, 2007, 00:27
There isn't room enough on the calendar to honor every American hero, but Aug. 16, the birthday of one such hero, is a day teachers and others who cherish education…
Tags: censorship, commentary, education, freedom, history, librescu
'Rest in Peace'
Posteado por Äl a las 2:37 AM
Tarde, pero no quiero que las fatales e inocentes victimas de Virginia Tech caigan en el olvido de este mi humilde blog. Por ende, quiero escribir unas palabras en su…
From Palestine to Virginia Tech: We are with you in this Time of Pain
Two days ago a tragic event took place in Virginia Tech in the US that shocked not only the people of the United States but people all across the globe. A violent massacre took place there that resulted in…
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From Palestine to Virginia Tech
Tags: activists, olive trees, palestine, palestinian, procession
From Palestine to Virginia Tech
Tags: activists, israel, olive trees, palestine, palestinian, soldiers
From Palestine to Virginia Tech
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Losing Students: Virginia Tech
That is a prime example of colleges not looking into the right cases and not checking up on people. Once Cho started to stalk people, he should have been expelled. They seem to spend more time fighting underage drinking than sexual…
Tags: commentary
VirginiaTech: 32 muertos, 4.3 millones de cómplices y 6.000 millones de vÃctimas
April 17th, 2007
La masacre estudiantil en Virginia Tech ocurrida ayer (lunes 16 de abril de 2007) ha vuelto a instalar la discusión de algunos de los valores de la sociedad norteamericana y del resto del mundo... de…
Tags: alienacin, nra, opinin pblica, regulacin de armas
Pychoanalysis won't fully explain VT killer
Opinion articles
By: Carol Duh
My parents immigrated into this country in 1982. My parents told me a Taiwanese parable while I attended the same schools as Mike Pohle, one of the 32 victims of last…
Tags: mental illness, yale
Mental hygiene weighs tough options
Maggie Reid
Staff Reporter
In her sophomore year at Yale, Naasiha Siddiqui '07 found herself facing more problems than just the sophomore slump. Siddiqui was severely depressed, and when she checked into…
Tags: mental health, rights, yale
Weapons to go off stage
Courtney Long
Staff Reporter and Copy Editor
In the wake of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech in which a student killed 32 people, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg has limited the use of stage…
Tags: guns, theater, university response, yale
Elis decry ban on stage weapon use
Cullen Macbeth
Staff Reporter
Members of Yale's undergraduate theater community reacted with anger over the weekend to Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg's decision to bar performance groups…
Tags: guns, theater, university response, yale
Stage weapons ban reversed
Tyler Hill
Staff Reporter
After a weekend of national media coverage and student outcry, administrators decided Monday to rescind the ban on stage weapons that was enacted in the wake of the Virginia Tech…
Tags: guns, theater, university response, yale
Security, Duke response raise some concerns
Posted: 4/18/07
Two days after the Monday massacre at Virginia Tech, students nationwide remained on edge Tuesday as more details of the tragedy emerged and additional security threats occurred on several other college campuses.
A…
Tags: campus security, community response, duke
'We Are One': C.U. Community Reflects on Va. Tech Tragedy
Sun Staff Writer
Apr 20 2007
Students, faculty, staff and members of the Ithaca community gathered in Sage Chapel yesterday afternoon to remember and reflect on the recent tragedy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State…
Student privacy under scrutiny
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
High schoolers still in shock
Many said they worried that several recent graduates of East Chapel Hill and Chapel Hill high…