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Only two days after a 23-year-old student at Virginia Tech carried out the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the perennial heated debate over gun control has already begun. While gun control advocates have been quick to decry the dangers of lax regulations in Virginia and the rest of the nation, their Second Amendment opponents are already going on a counteroffensive; rather than simply defend their constitutionally protected right to bear arms, many are already treating the campus massacre as a call to arms...
Indeed, the cheapening psychobabble has already begun, as just hours after the shootings, CNN and MSNBC are airing interviews with professional psychiatrists who prattle on about “alienation.” As if alienation could explain why a man felt licensed to execute 33 innocent people on a foggy April morning, killing not only his ex-girlfriend but an indiscriminate heap of young students and professors...
...declare a major. "I think she wanted to try to spread her wings," said Kuppinger, of Rochester, N.Y. Kuppinger said her niece had struggled adjusting to Tech's sprawling 2,600-acre campus. But she had recently begun making friends and looking into a sorority. Kuppinger said the family started calling Read as news reports surfaced. "After three or four hours passed and she hadn't picked up her cell phone or answered her e-mail ... we did get concerned," Kuppinger said. "We honestly thought she would...
...Looking forward to next week’s Ivy League Championships in Trenton, N.J., the golfers expressed confidence that they could improve on their second-place performance last year. Though it is still shaking off the rust in a season that feels like it has just begun, the Crimson will come into Trenton on a roll and with last year’s individual title to defend. “We are challenged with this every year in the spring with the sort of weather we’re going to have this week,” Rhoads said...
...collections. Though as a practice deaccessioning is nothing new, the outlandishly overheated art market of recent years has made it newly irresistible. At a time when a Jackson Pollock or a Gustav Klimt can go for about $140 million, it's no surprise that one institution after another has begun to see its "permanent collection" as just so much movable merchandise. But art is no ordinary inventory. Briskly disposing of it doesn't always sit well with people who like to visit the art, to say nothing of the people who donate it and who like to suppose that their...