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Provost Update August 17, 2007

Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:25:23 -0400
From: Provost@vt.edu
To: Multiple recipients
Subject: Provost Update August 17, 2007

August 17, 2007
Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues:

You are probably noticing that the students are moving back to…

Tags: concert, concert for virginia tech, counseling, intermediate memorial, internal reviews, mcnamee, media, provost, security, vt-engage

Counseling and Support Information for Students and Employees

Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:34:30 -0400
From: Virginia.Tech.news@vt.edu
To: Multiple recipients
Subject: Counseling and Support Information for Students and Employees

August 17, 2007

Counselors from Cook Counseling Center and ValueOptions…

Tags: counseling, human resources, mental health, support

Flashback

I was in college in the 1960s. During that wild decade, there were so many acts of violence that it felt like a time never experienced before and in many ways, it had never been known before. The assassinations, the war in far-off Viet Nam, the…

Tags: 1960s, flashback, parent, reaction

Where do we go now?

Sometimes I can be really eloquent. Giving a toast at a wedding, a briefing at work; I can really hit the post. I've been wanting to write about how I feel here for two days. But I haven't, stopped by disbelief, the taxes I couldn't bring…

Tags: blogs, international studies, alumni, blog

University enacts many campus security measures

By: ELI DILE
Staff Writer
Posted: 5/22/07

The Virginia Tech massacre in late April was a shocking reminder of the importance of campus safety.

Pitt, which spends more than $9 million annually on security measures, has many organizations and…

Tags: campus security, pitt university, public safety, security, university response

Gun control won't work in U.S.

By: KONRAD KLINKNER
Columnist
Posted: 4/23/07

The intricacies of the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech are proving to be very enduring media fodder, with NBC lapping up Cho's media package and the investigations probing deeper and deeper into…

Tags: background checks, gun advocates, gun control, laws, pitt university

Students show support for Virginia Tech with photo

By: KAY OYEGUN
Staff Writer
Posted: 4/23/07

Colleges all across America have come together to show support to the Virginia Tech students after the shootings that occurred there on April 16.

Pitt organized a student support group photo outside…

Tags: photograph, pitt university, support, sympathy

No bomb on CMU campus

By: JARED TRENT STONESIFER
Assistant News Editor
Posted: 4/20/07

Pittsburgh Police responded to a report of a bomb in a Carnegie Mellon University parking lot yesterday and later deemed the area safe.

Forbes Avenue was closed for more than an…

Tags: bomb threat, campus security, pitt university, security

EDITORIAL - Media exploits killer's manifesto

By: STAFF EDITORIAL
Posted: 4/20/07

Just days after the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, NBC made the inappropriate decision to release videos of killer Cho Seung-Hui angrily ranting about the reasoning behind his crimes.

Cho had sent a…

Tags: media, media criticism , media response, pitt university

Police chief says campus safety to undergo change

By: BETH OBERLEITER
Staff Writer
Posted: 4/19/07

When the identity of gunman Cho Seung-Hui was released yesterday, an integral part of the Virginia Tech shootings investigation fell into place.

Immediately, his image was plastered over media…

EDITORIAL - Va. shooting cause for reflection

By: STAFF EDITORIAL
Posted: 4/17/07

Many news outlets are calling it "the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history." For us, yesterday's shootings at Virginia Tech were a horrible tragedy, and they're also a reminder for all of us to…

Tags: campus security, pitt university, reflection, student response

Create a Violence-Free Society

By Marissa Camilon
Staff Writer

Amidst the midterms, papers and parties, college students can find it hard to believe that just a 20-minute period can actually make our lives stress-free and easier. This was the message that was…

Tags: meditation, transforming society, university of california - irvine, violence-free

Letter to the Editor: UCI Student's Suicide Ignored

I am writing with some reactions I had to three pieces in the New University of April 30, namely Anam Siddiq's front-page article on UC Irvine's vigil for the Virginia Tech community members who died on April 16, their families, and the…

Tags: community response, suicides , university of california - irvine, university response

Letter to the Editor: Asians, Parents Should Not Be Blamed for VT Tragedy

I was appalled by the commentary titled "VT Killer Needs Closer Look" (April 23) that sought to explain Cho Seung-Hui's motives in the Virginia Tech massacre. Overall, I got the sense that the article was trying to pin the blame of the Virginia…

CCC Hosts Vigil for V-Tech

MOURNING: At the official UC Irvine vigil for Virginia Tech administrators offered support to students.

By Anam Siddiq
Staff Writer

In a vigil hosted by the Cross Cultural Center and UC Irvine Student Affairs, candles were…

Tags: candlelight vigil, mourning, university of california - irvine, vigil

VT Vigils Make Us Ignore Other Tragedies

Commentary
By Philip Grant

Dear Chancellor Drake,

My most heartfelt sympathies are also with those affected by the terrible events of last week at Virginia Tech.

I write to you nonetheless not merely to share my sympathies with you,…

Tags: death, perspective, university of california - irvine, university response, vigils

Enlightened

My youngest son, Travis Miller graduated from Virginia Tech in 2006, and my experiences goe back gto my early teens. As a woman, a Mom, and a researcher, the events of April 16, 2007, grabbed my full attention, and still do.

You see, since 1993, I…

Tags: mental health, mental illness, parent, therapy

Media Coverage of VT Tragedy Irresponsible

By Tammesia Green

Following the massacre that occurred at Virginia Tech University on April 16, many have come to question their own safety at universities across the country. The profile of a school shooter, once narrowed to a lonely white…

Tags: criticism, journalism, media, media coverage, university of california - irvine

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