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...shots that rang out over Virginia Tech’s campus on Monday morning will continue to reverberate across the entire country for a long time to come. At colleges and universities, the magnitude and nature of the massacre at Tech has struck a particularly raw nerve. Here at Harvard we know the pain of losing one of our own; we cannot begin to imagine the devastation of losing 33 all at once. More horrifying than simply the heartbreaking loss of life is the sense of violation that comes with this type of unconscionable act. Much like the 1999 Columbine...
...beat poet, Charles Bukowski once said, “People are not good to each other, perhaps if they were, our deaths would not be so sad.” Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman who on Monday shot and killed 32 of his Virginia Tech classmates before killing himself, was not good to others. Perhaps others were not good to him to begin with. Somehow, none of that seems to matter...
...Virginia Tech's Website The latest information from the campus
...Then we got on our cell phones and we kind of picked it up live as it came to us in news feeds." Others saw the police activity and were mystified. Dustin Lynch, a sophomore, was on the drill field. , an open meadow in the center of the Virginia Tech campus, in front of Norris at about 9:15 when he saw "an unbelievable amount of police force speeding around? from all different directions. Ambulance and police cars met at Norris Hall and surrounded it." Then, he says, "after several minutes different groups of students were running out with their...
...students. Brandon Stiltner, a senior aerospace engineering student, and Jonathan Hess, a senior mechanical engineer, were watching TV all day but by noon they'd had enough. "We decided we needed to do something," Stiltner said. "We were worthless sitting around." So they took their six-foot Virginia Tech sign off the wall and logged into Facebook. Within the next few hours 100 people replied to their e-mail request for a vigil...