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...have been trying to fathom the horror of watching a fellow student stepping into a classroom and brandish a gun, or receiving a text message that a friend was shot. Such efforts have proven futile. All we can do is send our thoughts and prayers to our peers in Blacksburg and hope that Virginia Tech’s recovery from these grimmest of circumstances will heal our faith in humanity, which the shootings so devastatingly wounded...
...tragedy reverberated at Harvard—700 miles away from the Blacksburg, Va., campus where the shootings occurred...
...Christopher James Bishop, 35, taught German at Virginia Tech and helped oversee an exchange program with a German university. Bishop decided which German-language students at Virgina Tech could attend the Darmstadt University of Technology to improve their German. "He would teach them German in Blacksburg, and he would decide which students were able to study" abroad, Darmstadt spokesman Lars Rosumek said...
...terror at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University in Blacksburg began at about 7:15 a.m. with the killing of a woman student and a male resident assistant on the fourth floor of a dormitory on campus. Kristen Bensley, a freshman who lived below the floor where the shooting occurred, said, "There were rumors going on about [the assailant] was fighting with his girlfriend or something of that nature." Bensley adds that only residents can get into the building with a specific "passport," that is a pass card that one has to swipe in order to open doors before...
...April 16, 2007: Blacksburg, Virginia A gunman kills 33 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech. The gunman later dies...