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Display of support painted on front window of Imaginations Toy and Furniture Company, South Main Street, Blacksburg. The poem reads:

If we had hinges in our heads
There wouldn't be no sin.
'Cause we could take the bad stuff out,
And…

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Leslie Cirineo, a Salem State freshman, signs a tribute poster for Virginia Tech at the college's dining hall on Wednesday [April 18]. Several of the posters were placed around campus for students to write messages to the VT community. They bear…

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…

4.16.2007

Horror is the natural first reaction. It is hard to get beyond tumultuous emotions given the stories, scenes, and sheer numbers coming out of the massacre today at Virginia Tech. The facebook has emerged from a period as a nascent form…

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Signs and banner on Squires Student Center, Alumni Mall entrance. Photo taken Tuesday, May 1.

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Memorial items outside Jamie Bishop's office in Major Williams Hall. Photo taken on Monday, April 30, 2007.

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Sign and ribbons of support on building in Blacksburg, at the intersection of N. Main Street and Prices Fork Road. Photo taken Monday, April 30.

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We "Heart" VT sign with orange and maroon handprints, on display at N. Main St. entrance to Blacksburg New School. Photo taken Monday, April 30.

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32 orange and maroon crosses on display at N. Main St. entrance to Blacksburg Christian Fellowship. Photo taken Monday, April 30.

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Cadet memorial to Matthew LaPorte on graffiti slab in front of Schultz Dining Hall. Photo taken Monday, April 30.

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Wooden plaque remembering and honoring nine students from Political Science and International Studies. Displayed on fifth floor of Major Williams Hall. Photo taken on Friday, April 27.

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Sign in front of Burruss Hall reading 'VT Stay Strong Media Stay Away.' By around this time I was sensing that this sentiment was shared by growing numbers of this community. Photo taken April 19, 2007.

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VT flowers on the drillfield near the Burruss memorial. Photo taken Friday, April 20.

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Message of support on a wall at the Blacksburg Rescue Squad complex. Photo taken Friday, April 20.

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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.

Originally posted April 16, 2007, 9:03 PM on bluegnu.livejournal.com
http://bluegnu.livejournal.com/16802.html

The day started normal enough - slogged to campus and got to my office around 8:15 AM, and spent the next hour and a half prepping for…

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(April 20, 2007) Ribbon affixed to William Addison Caldwell statue. Caldwell was one of Virginia Tech's first students. Looking toward Norris Hall.

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(April 20, 2007) Message of support on Cook's Clean Center sign. On Main Street, directly across from Alumni Mall campus entrance.

By Brandon McGinley
Princetonian Columnist

As the epigraph for "The Brothers Karamazov," Fyodor Dostoevsky presented John 12:24:

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone:…

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Photo taken in front of Burruss Hall of the entrance to Norris Hall. I wanted to create an image that showed the beauty and life of the campus in the foreground, with the tragic events in the background. Most students feel safe, alive, and happy…
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