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Bomb threat deemed no hazard
Posted: 4/23/07
Early Friday morning, Duke University Police Department received an anonymous bomb threat for Bell Tower Dormitory and another building, which does not exist.
The threat-received through a telecommunications device…
Tags: bomb threat, campus security, duke
Council hears Duke safety plans
Posted: 4/20/07
Executive Vice President Tallman Trask spoke about Duke's emergency response system and Jo Rae Wright, dean of the Graduate School, reported on the future of the school at the Academic Council's meeting…
Tags: campus security, community response, duke
Asians fear alienation, scrutiny
Posted: 4/20/07
Days after the Virginia Tech shooter was identified as a Korean-American male by national media outlets, members of Duke's Asian Students Association gathered Thursday night to discuss the possible backlashes the…
Tags: backlash, duke, ethnic identity
Documentary news?
By now, there isn't a soul in the United States who hasn't seen the greasy, glinting forehead of Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman responsible for what broadcast news and the blogosphere are terming "the Virginia Tech Massacre."…
Tags: duke, media coverage, new media
Duke's response to VaTech tragedy lacking
Posted: 4/19/07
When news of the Virginia Tech massacre broke Monday, to say that students across the country were on edge is an understatement. The horror and randomness of the event forced students to take a step back and examine…
Tags: campus response, duke, editorial
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
Distraught, Duke asks questions
By: Kristen Davis
Posted: 4/18/07
More than a hundred students, faculty and administrators bowed their heads in silence at 2 p.m. Tuesday, as the Duke Chapel bell tolled 33 times-once for each…
Tags: community response, duke, grief
32 killed in Virginia Tech massacre
By: Anna Lieth
Posted: 4/17/07
After violent shootings shook students and administrators on Virginia Tech's campus Monday, members of the Duke community gathered last night to…
Tags: community response, duke, university response, vigil
Tech in 'riot' mode
By: Michael Hippchen
(11:50 a.m., April 16) While this morning's shootings on Virginia Tech's campus may have come to an end, with one shooter apparently have been captured, things are far from returning to…
Tags: big lick u, student response, vt campus
In lockdown in Shanks Hall
(April 16 -- 11:55 a.m.) I am on campus as we speak and am under lockdown in Shanks Hall, which is located on the opposite side of campus from the shootings. But it is still too close for comfort.
I was in class, working…
Tags: big lick u, student response, vt campus
Released from lockdown
(April 16) Well, I'm back safe and sound in my off-campus apartment. It has been a very scary and hectic past couple of hours to say the least.
We were released at noon, but it was not an assisted evacuation as we…
Tags: big lick u, student response, vt campus
A day unlike any other at Virginia Tech
(April 16) "April is the cruelest month," wrote T.S. Eliot. He might have been right, I recall thinking, as I watched snow land on flashing police lights this morning.
There must have been a reason I flopped back onto my bed…
Tags: big lick u, student response, vt campus
An abundance of warmth
By: Amanda Mullins
(June 15) When the owner of Mosaic, a local Blacksburg yarn store, first started talking about Hokie Healing, she probably wasn't…
Tags: big lick u, hokie healing project, knitting
Inside Norris Hall
By: Amy L. Kovac
(June 14) The cinderblock walls of Norris Hall's second-floor classrooms and hallway are covered with a new coat of cream-colored paint. The classrooms…
Tags: big lick u, media tour, norris hall, reopening
Intermediate April 16 memorial planned
By: Bryan Schamus
(June 7) Virginia Tech released its plans today for an intermediate memorial for the victims of the April 16 shootings, one day after announcing that Norris Hall, the site of 31 of…
Tags: big lick u, construction, intermediate, memorial
The Matawan Ribbon Campaign for Virginia Tech
Tags: high school, incoming, matawan, ribbon campaign, ribbons, student
Candlelight Vigil for VTech tragedy
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Photo Courtesy of Cuong Nguyen