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Perspective Gallery

View from the entrance to the Perspective Gallery in Squires Student Center. The gallery hosted an exhibit of items sent to VT, photos, and video related to 4/16.
Photo taken 4/16/08.

Photo by Roger Gupta.

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Tags: anniversary, gallery, remembrance, squires

PERSPECTIVE: Bush's speech at Virginia Tech clouded by own agenda

By:Matt Holt
Posted: 4/19/07

I had time to listen to President Bush's speech Tuesday morning at Virginia Tech. The president did the right thing by going to the campus in an attempt to console the victims of the unspeakable tragedy that…

Tags: commencement, george w bush, politics, speech, tragedy, boston university

PERSPECTIVE: Covering Virginia Tech as a student journalist in Blacksburg

By:Priyanka Dayal
Posted: 4/23/07

I spent three days last week at Virginia Tech University as a reporter covering the heinous murder of 32 innocent people.

I had never felt so many things all at once. I had never been so nervous and so excited…

Tags: journalism, media response, perspectives, boston university

PERSPECTIVE: Personal instinct only defense against tragic news

By:Ryan MacDonald
Posted: 4/18/07

In the days following a great tragedy, we as human beings collectively exhibit a variety of distinct reactions. Some will experience fear. This response is inevitably redoubled by a media which profits on false…

Tags: boston university, grief, reflection, response to tragedy

Peter Read Speaks at Lie-In

Peter Read, who lost his daughter Mary in the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech, speaks at a student "lie-in" on the drillfield on April 16, 2008, A Day of Remembrance. Organized by a Virginia Tech senior, the lie-in was designed as both a memorial…

Tags: anniversary, Drillfield, lie-in, read, st. onge

Peterson memorial

Memorial stone of Erin Nicole Peterson on 4/16/08.

Photo by Brian Sewell.

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Tags: anniversary, memorial, peterson, stone

Phil Vasser

Phil Vasser performing at A Concert for Virginia Tech, September 6, 2007.

Photo courtesy of Kevin Cupp.

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Original Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincupp/1341276417/

Tags: concert, concert for virginia tech, phil vasser, vasser

Place of Prayer ...

On April 19, people volunteered to set up a place of prayer in the corner of the drillfield.

Tags: Drillfield, prayer, volunteer

Places We Come From

They say you never forget where you are when you hear life altering news. On April 16, 2007, I was in my car driving back to work from lunch. It was a beautiful spring day in Cincinnati. My window was down and The Frey was playing in the CD…

Plastic Flowers and Hokie Stones

Bags of plastic flowers sit on a walkway at the new intermediate memorial. Hokie stones for Nicole White, Daniel O'Neil, and Seung-Hui Cho (unmarked) are visible to the right. At the time of this this photo, staff members and volunteers were…

Tags: cho, construction, flowers, hokie stones, intermediate memorial, oneil, white

Players, team react to tragedy

By: Dan Stein // Contributing Sports Writer
Issue date: 4/20/07

While the Miami Hurricane baseball team prepares for another tough weekend on the road in the ACC this weekend, one cannot help but notice a somewhat distracted mood in the dugout.…

Tags: baseball, players react, university of miami

Pohle memorial

Memorial stone of Michael Steven Pohle, Jr. on 4/16/08.

Photo by Brian Sewell.

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Original Source:
http://flickr.com/photos/briansewell/2419987750/in/set-72157604577382666/

Tags: anniversary, memorial, pohle, stone

Police chief says campus safety to undergo change

By: BETH OBERLEITER
Staff Writer
Posted: 4/19/07

When the identity of gunman Cho Seung-Hui was released yesterday, an integral part of the Virginia Tech shootings investigation fell into place.

Immediately, his image was plastered over media…

Police Cruisers on the Drill Field

2007.04.17.
Police cruisers on the Drill Field circle.

Photo courtesy of Ivan V. Morozov

Tags: cruiser, drill field, Drillfield, police

Police identify Norris Hall shooter as Va. Tech student

Cho attended Northern Va. high school, peers describe him as 'loner'

Maria Tchijov and Thomas Madrecki, Cavalier Daily Senior Writers

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Police identified Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, as the gunman…

Tags: cho, loner, mental illness, uva

Police Presence on Campus

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:20:54 -0400
From: VTPolice@vt.edu
To: Multiple recipients
Subject: Police Presence on Campus

April 14, 2008

To : The Virginia Tech University Community

From : The Virginia Tech Police…

Tags: flinchum, police, remembrance

Police Support

One of the items on display at the Alumni Center Art Exhibit. On 4/16/08, as part of the Day of Remembrance observance, the Holtzman Alumni Center Museum displayed examples of art, crafts, quilts, and other memorabilia contributed since April 16,…

Tags: alumni center, anniversary, exhibit

Policy Memorandum from President Charles Steger

Presidential Policy Memorandum No. 241

TO: All Virginia Tech Employees

FROM: Charles W. Steger

DATE: May 16, 2007

SUBJECT: Handling Information Requests About Events of April 16, 2007

Approved by the President: May 16, 2007
Effective…

Tags: employees, memorandum, policy, steger

Ponderation over shock from US campus shooting rampage

UPDATED: 17:04, April 19, 2007

A total of 33 people, including the gunman Seung-Hui Cho, 23, were killed Monday at Virginia Tech University in the deadiest shooting rampage in modern US history. The whole of the United States is stunned and…

Tags: cho, constitution, culture, gun control, second ammendment, seung-hui cho

Portrait of Dr. Librescu

I was a liason to an injured student in Dr. Librescu's class. She was injured from the jump out of the window, not a bullet. The student and her family believe that Dr. Librescu's actions saved her life. Her aunt was the artist. Her aunt…

Tags: art, librescu, liviu librescu, portrait

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