Posted on 02/08/2009 6:12:52 PM PST by HokieMom
(Undated) -- Virginia Tech will open an archive of documents related to the April, 2007 campus massacre to the public on Monday. The mass shootings left 32 students and professors dead along with gunman Seung-Hui Cho. Documents will include materials related to Cho and his academic career at Virginia Tech along with e-mails from university officials on the day of the massacre. It will not include any personal information about the victims.
The 77-hundred documents were made available to families and victims of the shootings in mid-December as part of a negotiated settlement. The public archive will be available on the Virginia Tech campus and the Library of Virginia in Richmond. The archives may eventually become available to anyone who uses the Internet, but the university is waiting to see if the software could handle such a large load.
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My son is a double major: aerospace and business. On a lighter note, he told me tonight that his business professors are “sketching out” on Obama’s stimulus plan, especially the salary cap part. We already know the engineering side is fairly conservative.
32 dead... that it? sounds like a typical weekend in chicago or washdc during the summer
Hard to imagine people living normal lives under those conditions.
I was there.
Right across the street.
I was getting the mail at the mailbox.
I heard the shots.
I thought it was construction noises.
I spent the rest of the afternoon barricading the doors of the house.
It was the strangest day of my life.
There is not a day in my life that I don’t think about that day.
Jeff
that would depend on your definition of normal.
keep in mind, the left has been in control of those areas for decades.
they despise the 1950’s stereotypical America... and will attack it at every turn. don’t think so? play a quick game. picture something that would have been typical in America circa 1955... then ask yourself if the left has done anything to undermine, ridicule, or vilify it during the last 50 years.
This is true. And yet, the 1950s was an era of huge advances in every aspect of wellbeing - health, education, respect for human rights, artistic expression - everything went forward at a great pace.
The latest example of the "let's jeer at the 1950s" is the film Revolutionary Road. It is about a couple living in a large house in the suburbs, and having a family, and just about dying of the unhappiness because "we bought into this middle-class dream ..."
My son had a 10:00 a.m. engineering class in the next building over. As he and others were arriving for class, SWAT officers yelled that they “get the *!&^@^* out of there”. When he returned to his dorm, he could see all the bodies being loaded into the waiting ambulances from his window. The students were devastated and like you, think of it daily. I’m not a psychologist, but from what I’ve observed of him and his CRU friends, the human psyche in its quest for balance and peace and calm has prompted the affected students to resume their lives with their new normal.
I’m glad you’re ok. I still say I need to learn self-defense methods offered by the NRA.
So true. Liberal policies have destroyed urban America.
I wonder it they’ll post a list of the people on campus who support concealed carry, of which just one could have prevented a tragedy of this magnitude ?
My daughter is hoping to get accepted at VT. She should hear from them in about a month. I’ve been there twice. Beautiful campus. I’m surprised they don’t have a better rec center, though, for such a big school.
The New River, the mountains, the winding roads (for those of a motorcycle persuasion). There are caves for spelunkers, there's decent snow skiiing nearby. One can participate in just about ANY outdoor activity you can name, including the shooting sports, within 10-20 miles of the VT campuus.
It is, quite simply, the best and most beautiful place I can imagine to put a University - and it's a darned good SCHOOL, too. I wish your daughter well in getting in.
You’re right about that. It’s beautiful there.
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