What Cho Learned at Virgina Tech

Virginia Tech Website ^ | April 17, 2007 | Nikki Giovanni

[Jeff Chandler]

We are Virginia Tech

We are sad today We will be sad for quite a while We are not moving on We are embracing our mourning

We are Virginia Tech

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly We are brave enough to bend to cry And we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again

We are Virginia Tech

We do not understand this tragedy We know we did nothing to deserve it

But neither does a child in Africa Dying of AIDS

Neither do the Invisible Children Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army

Neither does the baby elephant watching his community Be devastated for ivory Neither does the Mexican child looking For fresh water

Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs

Neither does the Appalachian infant killed By a boulder Dislodged Because the land was destabilized

No one deserves a tragedy

We are Virginia Tech The Hokie Nation embraces Our own And reaches out With open heart and mind To those who offer their hearts and hands

We are strong And brave And innocent And unafraid

We are better than we think And not yet quite what we want to be

We are alive to imagination And open to possibility We will continue To invent the future

Through our blood and tears Through all this sadness

We are the Hokies

We will prevail We will prevail We will prevail

We are Virginia Tech

Nikki Giovanni, delivered at the Convocation, April 17, 2007

[theFIRMbss]

>Wow. Cho appears to be one of their best students

It's very tempting
to say something that I know
Mods would promptly pull!

[theFIRMbss]

>It seems that the audience dug it.
>>That's troubling. Welcome to Freerepublic.

The women over
chatting the ANS thread
have been complaining

the forum's become
so mean they don't recommend
their friends come visit.

[Jeff Chandler]

But I accept the overall theme

If you followed the current zeitgeist in academia you you would be aware that what was stated was a typical laundry list of perceived "victims" of EVIL capitalism. It was an indictment of American oppression. (The Iraq bomb reference was a particularly nice touch):

But neither does a child in Africa Dying of AIDS

Neither do the Invisible Children Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army

Neither does the baby elephant watching his community Be devastated for ivory

Neither does the Mexican child looking For fresh water

Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs

Neither does the Appalachian infant killed By a boulder Dislodged Because the land was destabilized

It was silly leftist twaddle not worthy of an institution of higher learning. 50 years ago it would have received a grade of 'C' in a high school English class.

[Jeff Chandler]

Find, identify, publish the name of the Virginia magestrate judge that allowed him to run free, after recommendations that he be involuntarily institutionalized.

Does the judge write poetry also?

[Jeff Chandler]

The women over chatting the ANS thread have been complaining the forum's become so mean they don't recommend their friends come visit.

It's a rough neighborhood, not for the squeamish.

[Jeff Chandler]

she was one of Cho’s professors—the only one to succeed in getting him out of her classroom because he was such a menace to her and to the other students. ...I’ll bet she would not have supported a POLICY to get similarly dangerous students out of the university altogether.

I wouldn't bet against you.