65 20 1884 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brent Jesiek Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mark Owczarski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-02-04 Description An account of the resource By <a href="mailto:maowczar@vt.edu">Mark Owczarski</a> BLACKSBURG, Va., February 1, 2008 -- Virginia Tech's University Libraries is working with the university community and is guided by consultants from the Library of Congress to establish the archives for materials related to the tragic events of April 16, 2007. The research archives will provide primary source materials on how people grieve and offer consolation after a major tragedy. They will provide long-term access and preservation of relevant materials in analog and digital formats. Work to establish the archives of the millions of artifacts received by the university began in the days following April 16, explained Tamara Kennelly, university archivist and librarian who is leading the project. University librarians consulted with colleagues at other universities who developed archives after tragic events at their institutions, including Syracuse University, Ny. (the loss of 35 students following the crash of Pan Am 103 caused by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988), Bluffton University, Ohio (a bus accident that killed five members of the their baseball team in 2007), Oklahoma State University (a plane crash that killed members of its basketball program in 2001), and Texas A&M University (12 students were killed and 27 were injured during the construction of a bonfire pile). "The team from the Library of Congress came to Blacksburg within weeks of the tragedy to witness all the displays, all the materials that were pouring into campus," said Kennelly. "They needed to get a better sense of the scope of the project." Eileen Hitchingham, dean of University Libraries, asked people on campus who found themselves working in some way with post tragedy events to come together in order to facilitate further cooperation and collaboration. "We wanted to ensure that all of us were working together," said Kennelly. "Virginia Tech's Center for Digital Discourse and Cultures' April 16 archive and 'DLVT416: A Digital Library Test Bed for Research Related to 4/16/2007 at Virginia Tech' were just some of the departments on campus we wanted to make sure were concerned with the long-term preservation of the materials they collected." Since the summer, the University Libraries has worked with University Unions and Student Activities (UUSA) to organize the many condolences received by the university. These items came from all 50 states and around the world. "We estimate that the university received over 87,000 items expressing condolence," said Kennelly. "This includes thousands of cranes (33,000 cranes were received in one lot) and thousands more cards and letters. This is in addition to the thousands of items distributed through the student union in the days after the shootings." Under the direction of Greg Beecher, UUSA's associate director of administrative services, UUSA organized a building-wide display in Squires Student Center of condolences received. Thousands of stuffed toys, wristbands, ornaments, cranes, cards, cookies, and other gifts were distributed to the university community at the student center. A large team of volunteers organized by Steve Estrada tagged each item received. In June 2007, a temporary site was established at Virginia Tech's Corporate Research Center to process items in what is now informally referred to as the "Prevail Archives." A database was constructed to log in metadata about materials received by the university. Digital images were taken of these items and will be <a href="http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/416_archive">available online</a> through a timely but temporary arrangement with Rutgers University, N.J. Gail McMillan, director of Virginia Tech's Digital Library and Archives, is heading up this digital archive. "In addition to being a tremendous source of support and strength for the university community, these items are a rich source of material about how we express grief and the effect this tragedy has had on people around the world," said Kennelly. "There are materials that would be of research interest not only to sociologists but also to students of popular culture. Paula Cushing, department chair and curator of invertebrate zoology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and Joann Brennan, chair of visual arts at the University of Colorado, Denver, have inquired about borrowing some items from the archive for an exhibit case showing ways people memorialize the deceased." "In addition to planning for the permanent collection," Kennelly said, "we also are planning to have a traveling collection that might visit different venues." Items selected for the permanent collection will be appropriately organized, preserved, and housed in a climate-controlled environment, said Kennelly. The items will also be described in a finding aid that will be made available through the University Libraries' Special Collections website and the Virginia Heritage Project. Once the collection has been processed, the physical collection will be available through the Special Collections Reading Room on the first floor of Newman Library. Aaron Purcell is the director of special collections. For more information about the collection, <a href="mailto:tjk@vt.edu">e-mail Kennelly</a> or call (540) 231-9214. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mark Setala Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mark Setala Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-06 Description An account of the resource Flag at half-staff over Disneyland. No dreams came true that day. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Disneyland Mourns Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Adriana Seagle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mark Tran Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-10 Description An account of the resource Wednesday April 18 2007 By <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/global/mark_tran.html">Mark Tran</a> / <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/usa/">USA</a> 04:39pm Like others around the world, South Koreans have reacted with horror to the killings at Virginia Tech university, but they are also nervous about a <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woreax185176196apr18,0,2034052.story?coll=ny-worldnews-print">possible backlash</a> against the large Korean community in the US. The headline in the Korea Herald <a href="https://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2007/04/19/200704190004.asp">encapsulates</a> the sense of alarm: Massacre puts US-based ethnic Koreans on alert. "I and my fellow citizens can only feel shock and a wrenching of our hearts," said the south Korean president Roh Moo-hyun at a press conference, the third time he has offered his condolences. The government has already held several cabinet emergency meetings since the killer was identified as a South Korean, although he had been in the US since the age of eight. South Korean citizens pray for the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre in front of the US embassy in Seoul. For the blogger, Michael Hurt, an American of Korean and African-American descent who lives in South Korea, the incident raises <a href="http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/">interesting questions</a> about South Korean society and the "cultural context" of the killing, which he admits is highly sensitive ground. Hurt believes that the South Korean fears of retaliation are misplaced but argues that such fears are a "fair extrapolation of how foreign Others are treated as scapegoats and categorical symbols of many Koreans' opinions of other nations and races". But he raises more troubling points such as the apparent problem that Korean male students have in adjusting to the US. From conversations he has had with American academics, he says: <blockquote>"What came out is that many Korean men felt displaced and disempowered as males who lived in a society that catered to them, while in the US, those forms of automatic power and status - being male, rich, or having come from Seoul National University - mean nothing. And at the same time, Korean women experience a social liberalisation compared to where they would often be in Korea."</blockquote> In further food for thought, Hurt notes that the record holder for the worst shooting in modern times was an off duty South Korean policeman who went on a drunken rampage in 1982, killing 57 people and wounding 38 before blowing himself up with several grenades he took from the police armoury. The Marmot's Hole, however, has <a href="http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/17/virginia-tech-shooter-a-korean-student-report/">no truck</a> with cultural explanations about the Virginia Tech killings. <blockquote>"Cho Seung-hui is about as representative of the Korean community as the Columbine shooters were of the white community, that is to say, he's not. In fact, if there is any group that seems "predisposed" to this sort of violence in the United States, it's not foreign Asian students, it's white males."</blockquote> Contemporaria <hr size=1 noshade> This post was last changed at 04:39 PM, April 18 2007, at a time when the top headline on Guardian Unlimited was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2101677,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront">Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures</a>, and the top headline from the BBC was <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/6746965.stm">More 'chemical castrations' plan</a>, and there were posts elsewhere tagged with these same keywords: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/Korea">Korea</a> The post was written by <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/global/mark_tran.html">Mark Tran</a>. You can email the author at <a href="mailto:mark.tran@guardian.co.uk">mark.tran@guardian.co.uk</a> Comments <hr size=1 noshade> well, that's all very interesting, but if he had been in the US since he was eight years old, I can't help feeling that it's American culture which would have had the larger impact. Not saying US culture is inherently fucked up, just that the examples given of removal of status / general culture shock leading to 'disempowerment' are probably not applicable here. He was mentally ill, as are many human beings, and it led to the worst possible consequences. His 'heritage' is irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. Posted by Joshy on April 18, 2007 5:50 PM. Have to agree with Joshy here. Race and national heritage are largely irrelevant. America is a nasty place full of guns. Posted by Carts on April 18, 2007 6:36 PM. Not necessarily. You don't know how much of an influence American culture played in the boy's life. Asians sometimes stick together in their new country. The common language and culture binds them together in a foreign land. Just because he grew up in the United States does not necessarily mean that he accepted US culture and was integrated into US culture. His parents may have been the type to only socialise with other Koreans, and that may have trickled down to him. I was born in Asia, and have been in the US since I was 3 (with a brief, 6 year stay in the UK for university and graduate school). My parents primarily socialised with other people from their country. I chose not to, but then again I was younger when I came to the United States than Cho was. He probably felt very alienated in school when he first arrived, and if he didn't get over that alienation and those feelings of exclusion and isolation, coupled with his mental and emotional problems... Well, we can see the result. It's too bad that his teachers treated him like such an anomaly. They probably exacerbated his problems and fed his resentment. His peers also may have exacerbated his problems by not knowing how to reach out to him, and by not making an effort to get to know him as a person. A lot of people, particularly people at the margins, do not react positively to the social environment found at universities. He actively resented the people there, and by extension, the way they chose to socialise. Because he couldn't integrate himself, and probably because he was rebellious towards integration, and because of all his problems, well -- I think it's understandable that he could be pushed that far. I'm not excusing his actions, but as we are slowly becoming aware of the facts, it's clear that he was extremely disturbed. Posted by Brinstar on April 18, 2007 6:38 PM. Surely the sick young man was American, he had American citizenship, evn if he was of Asian background. But the point is being missed, in a typical American way, blaming the perpretator completely while choosing to ignore the environment. I live in China but am from Ireland, each has it's own proportion of troubled young men but the law doesn't give them ridiculously easy access to guns. This is not a racial problem it's a gun law problem.I'm saying that if every country had the same law as the one which exists in America, the same proportion of massacres would occur. But the gun law lobby will always place the blame on the victim, it suits their purposes. Am I saying the guy was right or innocent? - no, I'm not. I just want to make that point clear, but he was a sick man living in a society that has a sick law. Posted by Tomco on April 18, 2007 6:44 PM. I agree with the sentiments pertaining to race and nationality - these had nothing to do with his behavior. Rather, it was his mental illness that had everything to do with it. Koreans are very successful in America, and my experience has been that they assimilate well. Posted by cafeej on April 18, 2007 6:45 PM. Brinstar is correct. Immigrant communities often stick together in ways that prevent full assimilation to US society. Many such communities live in subcultures of their own making. Not placing any blame here, just making a statement. It's very sad to see a situation like this turning into a knee-jerk political debate on why people hate the US and its' people. While I completely agree that stronger gun laws should be in place in this country, I find the rants I have seen on these blogs to be pathetic. Posted by Alwick on April 18, 2007 6:55 PM. The above clowns seem to think national origin is irrelevant, unless, of course, one is American. School related deaths are down by half since 1990, with 50 million more citizens today. The above posters only display their bigotry, by ascribing some intrinsic essence of the 300 million who live in the States. Interestingly, 19 people were gunned down in Rio yesterday, but I don't see any amateur sociology about the diseased Brazilian culture in these pages. Hypocrisy.... Posted by ambivabloke on April 18, 2007 7:09 PM. I'm a British guy and I've been learning Korean for about one year, which isn't easy. Throughout that time I've met quite a few Korean people in London and, just as in South Korea, they have been kind, very helpful and supportive. I've been helped at night in Seoul by a young man who asked me if I was a Christian and then told me his name and plenty of other episodes that leave me with a very positive impression of Korean people and the culture. I think this guy could have been from any country and cultural background. Killing can't be justified in anyway but maybe the winner takes all culture of American society can be traumatic to those who feel left out or don't feel suitable to the challenge. Posted by simeonbanner on April 18, 2007 7:15 PM. I have seen no significant evidence of anti-Korean or anti-Asian sentiment since the events at Virginia Tech this week, at least none that I have seen. I read a fairly geographically broad number of online newspapers every day. Someone may use it as an excuse eventually, or decide to blame some event on what has happened. Nevertheless, the "stereotype" for Asians in the US is positive, with exceptions in areas where there is gang activity that breaks down along national lines, primarily in some western states. Asians frequently are viewed as industrious in the workplace and high achievers in academic pursuits by other Americans; to the point where (in the past) some of my friends of Chinese and Korean background said this so-called positive stereotype was driving them nuts. It was as if they were not allowed to be "average." I am thanking god the killer was not a Muslim. There would have been hell to pay. Posted by Phosphat on April 18, 2007 7:21 PM. Tomco, He was not an American Citizen, but a permanent resident, which is why the media refer to him as a "South Korean" rather than "Asian-American" or other term. simeonbanner, What does learning the language have to do with anything? Sorry, but, one cannot say all South Koreans are nice, polite, etc....do you know the level of racism levelled against ethnic-minorites (blacks, chinese, SE Asian, etc) in South Korea (you should go there)? Even the large Korean-American community has tensions with other communities...but then again, that is the problem with the US...all ethnicities have their demarcated lines and cannot leave their respective communities. I do not think this has anything to do with race, nationality or anything, but certainly US youth culture is a bigger problem. But what I can't understand...why is the Asian/Korean-American community shocked that 'one of theirs' has gone off the rail? As if to say it is (or should be) only white/black/latino people that could ever commit a crime. The level of (over)reaction by the Korean-American community is a little too much...yes, he was Korean, but he was also crazy and disturbed, which was the reason why he did such things. And South Korea...feeling a backlash....maybe the way they treat(ed) Americans in their own country, especially minority Americans after a tragic, unexplained accident a few years ago. Again, an over-reaction to a tragedy done by a crazy person (or is it still 'alledged'?). I don't see why the whole nation has to apologise; the US is not sensitive enough to want to attack a whole nation because of one man's actions...oh, hang on a minute... Posted by fraggler on April 18, 2007 7:30 PM. Offensive?...No...Unsuitable?...Not at all...Sadly Misguided?...YES Posted by TorontoAnthony on April 18, 2007 7:40 PM. @ Brinstar: "it's understandable that he could be pushed that far". Bollocks. Millions of people around the globe live in countries and cultures that are different to their own. They don't go on killing sprees when it all gets too much. Posted by Ringpeace on April 18, 2007 7:43 PM. I think it was Ian Fleming who wrote that if you wanted a really precision contract killing carried out, get a Korean assassin to do the job. Posted by brenzone on April 18, 2007 8:09 PM. brenzone: your comment is incredibly crass but I hope it does not get deleted. Not sure there is very much that can sensibly be said, apart from a call for a serious examination of American gun laws. If you need to pass a test to drive a car, I fail to see why gun ownership should not be contingent on extensive testing and a medical exam. You're not allowed to drive if you cannot see adequately enough, why on earth should deranged people (as Cho clearly was) not be filtered out through some sort of psych profiling? Posted by Zerotolerance on April 18, 2007 9:05 PM. It doesn't matter what culture this disturbed young man grew up in, trying to analyze it from that point-of-view only leads to generalizing and jingoism. Every society and culture on Earth has mentally ill individuals and many countries, if not all of them, have had incidents where an individual snapped and reacted with violence towards innocents. We can try to blame US culture like American movies, video games, heavy-metal music, anti-depressants or what have you, but the bottom line is that there are millions of Americans who grow up in the United States without ever using violence towards others. If you took away all the guns in the US, which would be nice, wouldn't have stopped this man from murdering people considering how pre-meditated the massacre appears to be. That said though, I think the real discussion should be the US' loose gun laws especially in Republican dominated states like Virginia. Posted by BlueJayWay on April 18, 2007 9:12 PM. Tomco - the shooter was not a US citizen. He was a legal resident alien. It doesn't matter what culture this disturbed young man grew up in, trying to analyze it from that point-of-view only leads to generalizing and jingoism. Every society and culture on Earth has mentally ill individuals and many countries, if not all of them, have had incidents where an individual snapped and reacted with violence towards innocents. We can try to blame US culture like American movies, video games, heavy-metal music, anti-depressants or what have you, but the bottom line is that there are millions of Americans who grow up in the United States without ever using violence towards others. If you took away all the guns in the US, which would be nice, wouldn't have stopped this man from murdering people considering how pre-meditated the massacre appears to be. That said though, I think the real discussion should be the US' loose gun laws especially in Republican dominated states like Virginia. Posted by BlueJayWay on April 18, 2007 9:14 PM. as a trainee shrink comment, lets be clear "mental illness" neither can explain or remove culpabilty for such actions; such actions are explained quite uniquely by the individual here concerned and his life story experience and then his actions, and they are not so generalisable to other people in ie the "mentally ill" population and a repressive backlash to those considered "mentally ill" would only increase the burden of human suffering! but that is not to say those who continually express violence and violent phantasy as a subgroup should not indeed be very carefully helped/ and the general public protected. Posted by ladolcevita on April 18, 2007 9:14 PM. It is disheartening to read what most of you feel about Americans. I am an American from North Carolina, and I think it is ridiculous to think there is going to be some backlash towards South Koreans over the Virgina Tech tragedy. Not only is it ridiculous, it's insulting. I have to assume you bas your opinions on our post-9/11 society. Granted, issues of racial tension in our society, and there is a population of people who were angry with Muslims after 9/11. I won't deny that, but it is a completly different situation. The terrorists who attacked the US were representatives of an evil and radical ideology. They were part of a population who hates America and its people. (How comfortable were Britains with Germans after WWII?) Even still, the majority of Americans understand the difference between Islam and radical Islam. The Virgina Tech murderer, however, was an individual who acted on his own. Americans are not all Axe-wielding white supremacist barbarians. Just because he happened to be a Korean doesn't mean we are going to begin hunting down Koreans and getting our revenge. Give Americans some credit. Posted by byronimation on April 18, 2007 9:48 PM. It's all pretty tragic. The guy was clearly mentally ill, he had easy access to guns and he decided to use them. The question of his nationality/race etc is rather beside the point. I have lived in several countries and ALL of them have their fair share of disturbed individuals either through abuse, disenfranchisement or physiological mental problems. For example, seemingly random attacks by students on fellow students or teachers in Japan are a fairly commmon occurence and in the UK people regularly lash out at others in violent ways. The main difference is quite clear - in most US states guns are easy to get, in most other parts of the world they are not. It's hardly rocket sicence now is it? If America as a nation wants to retain the right to bear arms then that is their choice and I wouldn't presume to tell them otherwise, but is it not alright to point out that maybe, just maybe it might be a good idea to look into exactly who you are selling guns too? Is that really so hard? As someone mentioned earlier, it's easier to buy a lethal firearm in Virginia than drive a car because you actually have to prove yourself competant to get behind the wheel. Madness. Posted by JawbreakerWiseman on April 18, 2007 10:23 PM. Interesting point about the sexes in Korea. The Korean-American women I know are amazingly successful and ambitious. Don't know any Korean-American men though. I do think however that the central debate here should focus on the ease of obtaining a gun. The gun laws here in the U.S., especially Virginia and most other states in the south, are absolutely antiquated. My hope is that Virginia and other states with lax gun laws use this incident as a wake up call and pass stronger gun legislation, instead of letting the NRA and the hunting lobby decide our policies. I just don't understand gun culture. I grew up in Connecticut, which is probably one of the safest, boringest states to grow up in. CT has strong gun laws, and our schools were pretty much violence-free. It seems to me that saving innocent students lives is more important than placating a small minority of white men obsessed with guns. On another note, I think teachers, especially at the middle school and high school level, need to be more involved in sticking up for students that are on the fringe. When I was in school, I remember teachers often just letting kids be picked on, or worse, joining in. I really upset me to see that. Teachers can help prevent students from forming "cliques" by assigning seating and making classmates work occasionally with other classmates that might not normally hang out with. That's how I would approach teaching, it I was in the position to do so. Posted by AC89 on April 18, 2007 10:24 PM. What I notice is the focus on 32 deaths on an American university campus, while today 160 people died in Baghdad from an insurgency caused by American imperialism. Certainly this says a great deal about the relative importance which the media places upon humanity: Americans are worth much more than Iraqis, if one is to believe them. And the fact that we pay more attention to Virginia says we too are being successfully manipulated by the same media which does little to contribute positively to a sense of community locally, nationally, and throughout the world. Sorry if this sounds a bit self-righteous, but I include myself in this, so to hell with the media, including the Internet. I'm going to read. Posted by Leftacentre on April 18, 2007 10:58 PM. Does the leader always have to have a pun in it? Posted by Level7 on April 18, 2007 11:35 PM. Virginia Massacre: Isn't blogging a twee yuppie distraction. Myriad blogger's who take the time to recant their ancestry, and hopefully ad lib assassin Cho's raison d'etre should really be ashamed of themselves. Without doubt he was a walking time bomb waiting to blast off - that it took so long, speaks volumes !! Virginia Tech officialdom should be incarcerated, quartered and hung out to dry. They failed their staff, alumni and students miserably. Therein lies the NUB - not sociopath Seong Hui.Migrant, permanent resident, green card holder, and would be Martin Byrant ( Australia's mass murderer. Sentenced to Life in Port Arthur. Tassie ) His Teacher's and room mates were well aware of his idiosyncratic behaviour, yet conveniently overlooked it, and mildly chastised him ? Perhaps most US Uni students go through this form of weaning, and hopefully ..just.. grow out of it. It's a crass understatement. Staff should undertake counselling to set them straight. Administrative procedures and protocols ( were there any ? )should have set alarm bells ringing, especially after 9/11. Zero tolerance - this guy should have been expelled or shunted sideways. Yes, irrespective of his paying fees. There are standards to uphold which are universally accepted, and unless one has a valid reason for weird dialogue or ' lone-wolf ' conduct, it may have in the short term prevented this tragedy. He was student iomcompatible. The Psycho's would have forseen his condition..day one. Like in the Armed Forces, he wouldn't have made it pass recruitment. Perhaps, we are all guilty by association.We condone all sorts of burlesque, risque standpoint behaviour at some time of our lives. In hindsight, could we have prevented such a horrendous oucome ?? Guess again. Posted by aussiechick on April 19, 2007 6:22 AM. Nice point LeftofCentre, I was in Europe in 2001 whilst some 3MM people (over a 3 year period) died in a civil war in Congo. This amounts to ~3000 people per day. People in Europe were more concerned over Bush's stumblings, the Kyoto protocol..etc. News coverage was terrible (do a search of BBC and see how many articles pop up). The only reason Europe cares about Iraqi deaths at the moment is because the US invasion is the direct/indirect cause. There was little concern over the 100,000 deaths/year (mostly children) that the UN (and I might add Europe-supported) sanctions caused. As a more ripe example, look at Darfur. More people are dying in Darfur on a daily basis then in Iraq but you could not tell that from the media coverage. In the end, I believe the media gives people what they want. Many Europeans hate Bush and they like to see him fail (hence the focus on Iraq). Many Europeans resent the worldwide attraction toward US "vulgar" culture and like to see its failings (e.g. gun laws, uninsured, suburbanization, SUVs. materialism). Many often simplify quite complicated issues, over-emphasize isolated incidents, fail to understand that the US is not as black/white as they think, fail to factor in the diversity/scale/dynamism of the USA, and forget the problems in their own backyard (Erfurt in Germany - 16 dead, Port Arthur in Australia- 35 dead, Dunblane in Scotland - 17 dead, Polytechnique in Montreal -14 dead). Posted by patapsco on April 19, 2007 7:04 AM. If all of the people that have died in famines, ethnic cleansings, fights over which end of an egg to eat from etcetera, over the past, say two decades, had lived and multiplied; how would they have been fed, sheltered and employed? Posted by Level7 on April 19, 2007 1:20 PM. I am a US citizen; my father is Korean and my mother is English. I think that what happened at Virginia Tech had three main factors: Suung-Hui Cho's mental problems, his environment and the ease of buying guns here in the USA. From all I've gathered, it sounds like Mr Cho had serious mental problems. One of his relatives was quoted as saying that his mother mentioned that Mr Cho was autistic; however, there has been no indication as to whether this was a diagnosis by a professional or a speculation based on his symptoms and history. Whatever his diagnosis, it seems clear in hindsight that he was a seriously troubled person. His environment was not helpful, to say the least. I read one account by a former high school student that Mr Cho was bullied into reading aloud in class by the teacher who threatened to give him an F for participation if he did not. The other students started pointing, laughing, mocking his manner of speaking and yelling "go back to China!" This story absolutely gave me the creeps... and a shudder of sympathy for the butt of the whole incident. My parents met and married at a time in the USA when mixed race marriages were looked down on and actually illegal in some states. They were only able to marry when they showed the justice of the peace their passports because if they had been citizens of the USA, their marriage would have been against state law. I was the first non-white child in my school, all the way up until high school. I was often the target of bullying and harassment based on my race. And not always by the other kids; a fair number of teachers also harassed me. I think the combination of Mr Cho's mental problems and the harassment he suffered throughout his life in the USA combined to drive him over the edge. Why did he kill when so many others (including myself) do not? I'm not sure. All I can say is that if you subject enough people to stress, a small percentage, perhaps only a fraction of one percent, will go over the edge and start to kill. The FBI includes having suffered bullying in the ten point checklist they have compiled of other school shooters. The third factor was the easy availability of guns. I've read comments elsewhere that suggest that if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons to class, Mr Cho's rampage would have been stopped sooner. This seems to me to be wildly unlikely. If there had been other students carrying concealed weapons, I suspect the headline would read "USA gunman kills three before being shot down himself; forty seven onlookeers also killed in the crossfire" Without one of these three factors, I suspect that today would be just another day at Virginia Tech and most students' main concern would be whether they would pass their next test. Only one of these three factors is not readily changeable--Mr Cho's mental illness. The harassment he suffered and the easy availability of guns could be changed. I suspect, however, that most people in the USA will simply blame the whole incident on some innate evil in Mr Cho. That's a lot more comfortable than facing the possiblity that others may have been indirectly complicit, after all. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mark Umansky Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mark Umansky Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-11-11 Description An account of the resource I snapped a very quick set of photos of these signs for a panoramic after ESPN Gameday ended just before the first game of the season on September 1, 2007. Hokies United made these signs to be held up during the show thanking other schools for their support after April 16. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource VT Thanks espn gameday football vt thanks espn gameday hokies united signs https://april16archive.org/files/original/VT Concer2t_f162b1de6a.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mark Umansky Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mark Umansky Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-11-11 Description An account of the resource A panoramic made of photos I shot from my seat in the South Endzone stands. These were taken just before the Dave Matthews set began. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource concert for virginia tech,dave matthews band,dmb Title A name given to the resource Panoramic: A Concert for Virginia Tech dave matthews lane stadium concert concert for virginia tech dave matthews band dmb Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sara Hood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mark Washenburger Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-01 Description An account of the resource Mark Washenberger - May 8, 2007 - 8:19am It's Memorial Day and I'm in the office, so of course I'm looking for ways to procrastinate. New post time! After the VT tragedy, a local church put up 32 (by my count) flag poles in memorial. Each pole is flying a flag of the state that was somehow associated with one of the victims. So, as you can imagine, there are probably 25 or more American flags flown, as well as an Indian flag, an Israeli flag, and several others I couldn't name off the top of my head. This memorial is a profound statement of how ridiculous our symbolic landscape has become. Note the process: individual -> nationality -> state; this memorial manages to conflate all three. In this process, it demolishes the individuals, with all their variety and independence, far more thoroughly than any bullet. Let us not forget that these were real, living people. No symbol or category could contain them, because like us, they were unpredictable and ever-changing. Should we now try to box them up in symbols to serve our own fears, our own perverse anxieties? As individuals, we all need to understand the total process of authority and what a silly game it is. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Markapazos Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-30 Description An account of the resource Publicado por markapazos - Un punto de encuentro. In Memory of the lives that were lost in this senseless tragedy Our hearts go out to the fallen and the injured. Our prayers are with the family and friends of the victims. I want to share with You these words that a friend sent to me and who is professor of the Faculty of Engineering and that by things of life did not have to be present at that tragic moment. Yo quiero compartir con Ustedes esta palabras que me envio un amigo quien es profesor de la Facultad de Ingenieria y que por cosas de la vida, el no estuvo ese tragico momento. A quote out from one of our members "Lets us all pray that no blame be placed. Let us pray that something this tragic never happens again. Let us pray for the media to look beyond the story here and allow all who have been affected an opportunity to gain understanding and to heal. Let us pray for this to be something which will draw us all closer together as a country and closer to God. Let us all pray that there will be no retaliation by those who believe it is warranted against any culture, nationality religion or any other human being in this beautiful world created by our maker. "Let us pray" Written & submitted by: Kennysr61 We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness ... We are the Hokies ... Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist. En el marco de locura y baÃ±o de sangre originado por un estudiante surcoreano fuera de sÃ en la Universidad Virginia Tech, nos muestra que su ser y su corazÃ³n estaba en crisis y no tuvo esa mano amiga para enseÃ±arle la verdad y mostrarle la cosas hermosas que tenemos alrededor. Vivimos en una Ã©poca de falsos hÃ©roes, hombres araÃ±as vestidos de negro, estrellas mediÃ¡ticas cuyo Ãºnico afÃ¡n es el egocentrismo y culto a si mismos, y sin embargo en este mundo de contrastes que nos toca para vivir, un profesor sobreviviente de la mÃ¡xima barbarie cometida contra el pueblo judÃo, se inmola, sin importarle la raza, religiÃ³n status de clase de sus pupilos, el simplemente puso su cuerpo, como escudo contra el demente asesino, despechado por el amor de una mujer (que cosa mÃ¡s patÃ©tica), del loco segado por los sentimientos que le originaba otro ser humano. Por todo esto sigo insistiendo en mi blog sobre todo aquello que se requiere a travÃ©s de la reflexiÃ³n para entrar a una conciencia segura que nos garantice bienestar personal, familiar y al entorno en el cual nos movemos, manteniendo esos principios fundamentales de vida. Se requiere conciencia y amor como el inicio de nuestros valores... Pero al hablar sobre el amor, serÃa conveniente considerar las siguientes premisas que debemos inculcarnos a nosotros mismos y a los demÃ¡s seres queridos: No se puede dar lo que no se posee... Porque para dar amor hay que tener amor. No se puede enseÃ±ar lo que no se entiende... Porque para enseÃ±ar sobre el amor y de amor, sencillamente hay que comprender el amor. No se puede saber lo que no se estudia... Porque para estudiar el amor es necesario vivir en el amor. No se puede apreciar lo que no se reconoce... Porque para reconocer el amor es necesario estar receptivo al amor. No se puede dudar de aquello en lo que uno quiere confiar... Porque para confiar en el amor es necesario estar convencido del amor. No se puede admitir aquello ante lo que uno no se rinde... Porque para rendirse por amor es necesario ser vulnerable al amor. No se puede vivir de aquello a lo que uno no se dedica... Porque para dedicarse al amor es necesario crecer eternamente en el amor El amor es dudas es la experiencia mas sublime e importante en la vida y por supuesto es el estado que engrandece al ser humano. -- Fuente original: <a href="http://markapazos.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech-memorial.html">http://markapazos.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech-memorial.html</a> Licencia de uso: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/"> Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Title A name given to the resource Virginia Tech Memorial... 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sara Hood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Marta Dehmlow Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-08 Description An account of the resource As Tulane officials rethink security policies, some Tulane students express personal grief over Monday's events By: <a href="http://www.thehullabaloo.com/user/index.cfm?event=displayAuthorProfile&authorid=2313160">Marta Dehmlow</a> Posted: 4/20/07 Students at Virginia Tech and all over the nation will remember April 16 as a day that shattered the security of college campuses everywhere. "How do you have openness and accessibility and make sure the campus is as safe as possible?" Tulane University president Scott Cowen asked in an April 18 interview with the Hullabaloo. "Campuses are sacred ground." This "sacred ground" was desecrated, however, when Cho Seung-Hui, a 22-year-old senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 students and injured 26 more before turning his gun on himself. The largest school shooting in history has torn apart the Virginia Tech college community in Blacksburg, Va., leaving college students nationwide doubtful about the security of their own institutions. "It can happen anywhere," senior neuroscience major Jen Velarde said. "Crazy people are out there. It can happen so easily; there's such a fine line. As much as you secure a building, if a student is going to do this, it can happen." And it has happened a number of times before, university officials said. "This is not really an isolated incident," Tulane University Police Department director Ken Dupaquier said, citing past shootings on college campuses. "People think that it hasn't happened before or in a long time, but it has." Nationwide, college students empathizing with their Virginia Tech counterparts have demonstrated their solidarity. Jonathan Horner, a senior microbiology major who has several close friends at Virginia Tech, showed support for the affected school by changing his facebook picture to one saying "Today we are all Hokies," referring to Virginia Tech's mascot. He, like many other college students, also joined a facebook group memorializing the victims. "I also called and messaged all my friends," he said. "I told them I'm praying for them and their school." Other students were more immediately affected by the massacre at Virginia Tech. Maura Bowlin, a sophomore English major, spent her freshman year at Virginia Tech before transferring to Tulane in the fall of 2006. "It's eerie to think I've walked the halls of [Ambler-Johnston Residence Hall and Norris Hall]," Bowlin said about the sites of the two shootings. Although she has many friends at the school, Bowlin said she has not quite felt the full effect of the situation. "It hasn't really sunk in. We talk about it in every single class, which I wish we didn't," Bowlin said. Bowlin explained that Cho was not a typical Virginia Tech student. As a senior, the gunman lived on campus, "which almost no one does after freshman year. So that was weird." She also had a friend who was supposed to be in one of the classrooms in Norris Hall. "She slept through the class," Bowlin said. "I knew a few people who just didn't go to class because they had a feeling." Kerry Kraft, a sophomore communication major, spent Fall 2005 at Virginia Tech, where one-quarter of her high school class attends. "I was distraught when I tuned on the TV. I spent all day on the phone or in front of [it]," Kraft said. She knows a number of students at Virginia Tech, and she was very concerned, Kraft said. "I was lucky," Kraft said. "Everyone I know was all right, but they were all affected directly or indirectly. I was lucky not to be directly affected." The events have also caused Tulane's administration and campus police force to reiterate their security measures and emergency preparedness plan. "All of our public safety officers are trained as police officers at the academy, like NOPD. Therefore they have at least been prepared," Cowen said. Prior to the Virginia Tech massacre and Hurricane Katrina, a decision was made to update the emergency response system. "We will have six different phone numbers for each student, plus e-mails will get blasted by information [in the event of an emergency]", Cowen said. The new system will also include the ability to text message students' cell phones. Dupaquier believes that with Tulane's current protocol, an event such as this one would have been avoided. "Our protocol for dealing with students with similar traits to [Cho's] is that we would have liked to intervene," Dupaquier said. "We have a mechanism in place between Public Safety, Student Affairs, the Educational Resource Center, the student health center and the deans that would catch this, hopefully." Tulane, like many other colleges, is also reassessing current systems. A task force is being created headed by Vice President Anne Banos. It will involve different arms of the university and several student leaders to help ensure that such a horrific event does not happen at Tulane. "We will see what changes, if any, need to be made in our protocol," Dupaquier said. "The president expects an answer in a timely manner. Not in a matter of months, but Cowen expects recommendations in a few weeks." While the administration and public safety department are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of Tulane students, they extend their sympathies to the Virginia Tech community. "Obviously, we are devastated for those that were killed, and their friends and family," Cowen said. "We are not strangers to tragedy, and we can identify. We will do whatever we can to help." 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mary Ann Cole Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Ann Cole Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-03-26 Description An account of the resource After being advised to stay away from windows and such on April 16, many of the Career Services staff and students who were in our building at the time gathered together in an interior room (our staff lounge). As things were unfolding on campus around us we were watching the news and hearing what was unfolding. This photo was taken as we had just learned of the first seven fatalities in Norris Hall. Everyone was shocked. We couldn't believe what we were hearing. As the morning unfolded an we watched intently we were overwhelmed with grieve that this had happened. We had to be strong for the students who were among us. It was surreal. 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