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Representatives of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) met their Boston counterparts Tuesday to address security concerns raised by the Virginia Tech shootings...
...Meanwhile, more Virgina Tech students were coming forward with reminiscences about the strange, painfully shy classmate that some of them had crossed paths with, though none of them ever got to know. Victoria Wilson, a senior from Virginia, told TIME.com about an awkward experience with Cho on the first day of a literature class last year, after her professor paired up students and asked them to question one another about their hometowns, interests and goals, then report back to the class about the other's replies...
...wouldn't say a word," Wilson recalls. "He just looked at me with his mouth open slightly. His lips were trembling a little, so I thought he was just shy and nervous. So I asked, 'Are you from northern Virginia?' and he nodded his head a little. After I tried getting him to talk for a few minutes, I gave...
...outgrowth of the published, broadcast and webcast images is that a Virginia Tech professor saw what he believed were similarities between one of Cho's photographs and the South Korean movie Oldboy, by the director Chan-wook Park, about a man who seeks vengeance on the man who kept him unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. Cho photographed himself flourishing a hammer, the movie 's trademark weapon, in a pose that the professor, Paul Harris, said resembled one from the film. Another possible outgrowth of the media storm is that, according to the Korea Herald newspaper, Cho's parents are currently...
...Earlier this week school officials at Virginia Tech announced that they were cancelling classes for the rest of the week. Today they went a step further. Though classes are scheduled to resume on Monday, the university is looking for ways to allow students to end their academic year now without penalty, perhaps by accepting whatever grade they have at this point in the term. And one more thing - Virginia Tech decided it would award degrees posthumously to all 32 victims...