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While they mourned, some students also expressed concern over a lack of communication from Virginia Tech officials after the first shooting...
Black added in an e-mail that she still had faith in Virginia Tech “as a safe institution and community...
...Virginia Tech administrators sent several e-mails to Virginia Tech students in the wake of the shootings, but the first arrived at least two hours after the initial attack had occurred. At a news conference yesterday, Virginia Tech President Charles Steger defended his administration’s handling of the incident, saying officials thought the first shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute and mistakenly believed the gunman had fled the area. And, like students here and around the country, he struggled to grasp the gravity of the day’s events...
Evil, at its worst, is ineffable. In the weeks and months to come, yesterday’s cold-blooded shooting rampage at Virginia Tech will be analyzed ad nauseam by every credentialed authority from every conceivable angle. A procession of talking heads will use this tragedy as a heuristic springboard for their pet theories about videogames, adolescent disaffection, race, gun-control, mental illness, religious faith, the endemic violence of the American psyche, you name...
There will be time for discourse later. For now, a visibly shaken Charles Steger, president of Virginia Tech, can only say that he is “at a loss for words.” Senator John Warner (R-VA), exuding his usual gravitas, calls these crimes “senseless” and “incomprehensible.” Bush, always the ineffective orator, talks about the importance of keeping faith in “a loving God.” But in the face of such a pointless and cruel squandering of human life, his theodicy...