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Today marks two years since Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and wounded many others at Virginia Tech in the deadliest single-gunman shooting in U.S. history. In her new book, No Right to Remain Silent, Lucinda Roy gives the first comprehensive account of that day. Then the head of the school's English department, Roy alerted school authorities about Cho's troubling behavior after first encountering him eighteen months prior to the shooting. TIME's Laura Fitzpatrick spoke with Roy about her memories of the gunman and how she thinks we can prevent such a tragedy from happening again...
...current quarter would be about flat with the last one. Intel also did not offer any evidence that the PC industry is beginning to do better or if companies were just ordering a few more chips to fill falling inventory. Intel's results are good news for the broader tech sector if PC companies are actually buying more chips because their product sales have increased. But, the Intel would not say as much. "Returning to normal seasonal patterns" is double talk...
Intel is the first large tech company to report each quarter. If Intel's comments are positioned to support its belief in a recovery, there is a temptation for Wall St. to buy up its shares...
...Fraternities still rely on low-tech means to raise awareness of Greek life. One weekend in February, 100 fraternity members used chalk to blanket campus sidewalks with the interfraternity council's web address. But Pete Smithhisler, who is president and CEO of North-American Interfraternity Conference, says nearly every Greek organization in the nation now has an online presence. And these groups are using as many technological outlets as possible to improve the bonds of brother- and sisterhood. "You remember how, when we were in college, going to the dining hall, you had to search, there was always that moment...
...best. It goes directly against the ideals he has promoted domestically of stimulating our economy, supporting science and technology, and providing opportunities for young engineers and scientists to engage in the most exciting and advanced work possible, and it is certainly not welcome news to the American high-tech industry, already reeling from the recession and the loss of civilian business...