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Introductory German was meeting in Room 207, a couple dozen students in their first class of the day, when Cho peered in, as though he was looking for someone. One student thought he looked like a Boy Scout. He was wearing the school color--a maroon cap--and a vest with pockets for his ammunition. When he went back into the classroom, he was quiet and purposeful. First he shot instructor Jamie Bishop, 35, in the head. Then he went methodically around the room. Derek O'Dell was hit in the arm; when Cho finally left for the next room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darkness Falls | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...helicopter ride to the Virginia Tech campus, was basking in sun and warm air. The contrast continued in Blacksburg, where the massive auditorium seemed ready not for a memorial, but for a college basketball game. It was packed to the rafters with chatting students, most in orange or maroon shirts or hoodies bearing the Virginia Tech logo. The rafters themselves were hung with banners from previous years' basketball victories, and pictures of famous Hokie players from years past. State Senator John Edwards, whose district comprises Blacksburg, worked the front row, shaking hands with U.S. Senators John Warner and Jim Webb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a School Learns to Mourn | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...each other, largely by connecting them to the machines they love. But for a club comprised mostly of hardcore video gamers, its members define “interactive media” in a strikingly humanistic way. “Take a Rothko painting like ‘Green on Maroon,’” says Benjamin S. Decker ’08, founder of HIMG. In the way a painting is seen and interpreted, it’s not all about the artist, he says. “It’s created by the viewer...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer and Beryl C.D. Lipton, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: PLUGGED IN | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

Facing a sea of “I (Heart) EK” shirts and maroon and gold balloons, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan began tearing...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Kagan at Helm, Law School Celebrates | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...Sporting maroon shirts emblazoned with “Keeping the Kag; They’ll Never Know What They’re Missing” and sipping glasses of red wine, several hundred students showed up to the second floor of Harkness Commons to demonstrate their support and appreciation for Kagan...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Kagan at Helm, Law School Celebrates | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

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