Browse Items (1884 total)

Dr. Roger Passman
April 18, 2007
Reporting for Reuters, Andrea Hopkins writes:
By all accounts, the prayers started even before the gunshots stopped at Virginia Tech university, and the pleas to God from grief-stricken survivors of the massacre…

V_Tech__Chain_of_Reactions_by_ellana.jpg
Artist's Comments

We were supposed to do a project either showing ourselves perceptually or in response to the Virginia Tech shootings. Since I already have a self-portrait for pretty much every year of my life, I decided to do the…

Today was by far the most trying day I've experienced in my life. On April 16, 2007 33 people were killed, with 15 more wounded on the Virginia Tech Campus. I know that this is likely not new information, but I repeat it just to add strength to…

We know not your name
We know not your height
Nor your weight
Nor your burdens
The things that brand you

We know not the reason
We know not the thoughts
Nor the sorrow
Nor the regret
The things that brand you

We know not who…

Tags: ,

Today_We_Are_All_Hokies.jpg
Artist's Comments

On a sunny warm morning on September 17, 1996, a young woman with a long history of mental health problems walked onto the Penn State campus, sat down under a tree on one of the most popular lawns on campus, took a…

Tags: ,

Question_Mark_by_artistm0nk.jpg
Artist's Comments

?

Lay me on the ground
Fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find...
Teach me how to speak
Teach me how to share
Teach me where to go
Tell me will love be…

I woke up today

This mirror doesn't reflect me
No one that I know of
Has time passed so quickly?
Did you give the final shove?

Save us from evil
Save us from evil

Is this what I've become?
A heart left untouched
My wounds have…

Tags: , ,

by SamiSunshine

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:

Why must we pay the price
For others sins and vice?
As I lay dying here, I cry.
I wonder, Why, why, why?
~Joseph M. Skipsey, April 23rd, 2007

Of Shooters and Schools

Can video games make kids more violent? A new study employing…

VT
Written by Al Shoemaker
In memory of those who died at Virginia Tech, May they always be with us


This poem is dedicated to all that were lost,
Because someone wanted power and lives were the cost

For all the ones that sat there in…

Tags: ,

Auburn University.jpg
Auburn University shows its support for the victims of Virginia Tech. This memorial whiteboard was located at the Drill Field.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxpower/468731254/

Licensed under Creative Commons…

Tom DeLay
Former Tennessee Senator and potential presidential candidate Fred Thompson had a very interesting article in the National Review on April 20th entitled, "Signs of Intelligence?" which dealt with concealed carry laws on the Virginia Tech…

Cho Seung-Hui's Memorial.jpg
Text of Note #1:

Seung-Hui

I hope that if I ever meet anyone like you I will have the courage and strength to reach out and change his or her life for the better.

I hope your family is able to get through the misery they are in because of…

Jarrett Lee Lane's Memorial.jpg
Friends and loved ones have placed several items by Jarrett Lee Lane's Hokie Stone.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxpower/468731104/

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

Sweet Student and Alumni Party.jpg
Every food vendor in the New River Valley area was out giving away free food. It was awesome.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxpower/468730776/

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

Crime Scene.jpg
Individuals have placed flowers and other items at the crime scene outside of Norris Hall.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxpower/468730806/

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

By a4g
Point Five Staff Writer @ 4:51 pm
April 16, 2007

--

Fears Raised That Details Of Shooting Might Be Released Into Context-Free Void

--

A massacre at Virginia Tech took the lives of 32 on Monday. But as the sun set, and sketchy…

Awesome.jpg
Messages that show the solidarity and the university community culture that exist at Virginia Tech.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxpower/468731200/

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

We Are Virginia Tech.jpg
The memorial at the Drill Field near Burress Hall and Norris Hall.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxpower/468742227/

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

Posted Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 at 1:43 AM by Justin

I hate it how, whenever we have a national tragedy, journos just eat it up. The TV stations make logos for it, and slogans like "Massacre at Virginia Tech" that become ominous jingles as the…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2