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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…

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…

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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…

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Students gather in Holden Hall during the massacre at Virginia Tech

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Virginia Tech students on the steps of Burruss Hall...

Photo courtesy of Ivan V. Morozov

On 4/16/07 12:21 PM, "jlehr@vt.edu" wrote:
Subject Line: DO NOT COME TO CAMPUS

All, please do not attempt to drop off the paper that is due today. I will send an update.

BE SAFE. I AM SO SORRY.
Please be safe. I hope that you are all…

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Memorial to nine student victims from Virginia Tech's Department of Political Science and International Studies Program.

By Lisa Guerriero/salem@cnc.com
GateHouse Media
Fri Apr 20, 2007, 04:30 PM EDT

SALEM - The flags at Salem State College flew at half-mast for three days this week in a show of solidarity for the 32 victims of the tragic shooting at Virginia…

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A group of friends from Blacksburg High attending the Candlelight Vigil the day after the tragedy.

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Students carrying chairs at the memorial dedication ceremony on August 19, 2007.

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BY RICHARD McCORMACK
richard@manufacturingnews.com

On Thursday afternoon April 19, three days after the shootings at Virginia Tech, my wife and I put our dog in the car and headed south to visit our son, a senior engineering major at the…

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Fans on the field at A Concert for Virginia Tech, September 6, 2007.

Photo courtesy of Roger Gupta.

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A view of the crowd at A Concert for Virginia Tech on September 6, 2007.

Photo courtesy of Roger Gupta.

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By Ryan Bray
GateHouse Media
Thu May 03, 2007, 02:22 PM EDT

Scituate - In the two weeks since the Virginia Tech shootings swept through the college town of Blacksburg, Va., people nationwide are still struggling to grasp and adjust to the tragic…

By STEPHANIE HARRIS THOMAS, Hope Star Writer
Published: Friday, April 20, 2007 6:21 PM CDT

Students at the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope, as well as universities across Arkansas, are feeling the pain of the Virginia Tech…
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