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...what life was like not long ago. “Especially at the Business School, you sit in your plush surroundings and there really is an overwhelming sense of guilt,” said Gildroy. “At times you question if you should be sitting in the classroom or fighting in Iraq...
...with any diverse student body, varying backgrounds provide an opportunity for education outside of the classroom. Most veterans are excited to share their experiences with their civilian peers, but it can also be frustrating to encounter such relative ignorance...
...Librescu's son, Joe, said his father's students sent e-mails detailing how the professor saved their lives by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the approaching gunman before he was fatally shot. "My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said Tuesday in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. "Students started opening windows and jumping...
...morning the Virginia Tech police chief, Wendell Flinchum, held out the possibility that a second shooter might have been involved. He said authorities could not definitively say that Cho killed a man and a woman in a dorm earlier Monday morning in addition to the 30 slaughtered in a classroom building called Norris Hall. But Cho's fingerprints were found on a gun used in both buildings...
...During the shootings, students and university employees dodged bullets and huddled together. Tom Murphy, a 19-year-old freshman, was locked in a Robinson Hall classroom from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. He and the 11 students, some strangers, held hands and prayed on bended knee. Like many others, Murphy had a cell phone, but the lines were jammed, and he couldn't get through...