7 20 1884 https://www.april16archive.org/files/original/xin_4404041809566873108918_07925ecca7.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-15 22:45:53 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 新华社记者 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Description An account of the resource This photo was captured on the football field at the Virginia Tech convocation. Original Source:中新网 <a href="http://news.online.sh.cn/news/gb/content/2007-04/18/content_1927629.htm">http://news.online.sh.cn/news/gb/content/2007-04/18/content_1927629.htm</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Virginia Tech Convocation 4/17/07 (5) convocation football field https://www.april16archive.org/files/original/xin_5004041809561401330320_88b04f9437.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-15 22:50:53 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 新华社记者 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Description An account of the resource This photo was captured on the football field at the Virginia Tech convocation. Original Source:中新网 <a href="http://news.online.sh.cn/news/gb/content/2007-04/18/content_1927629_2.htm">http://news.online.sh.cn/news/gb/content/2007-04/18/content_1927629_2.htm</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Virginia Tech Convocation 4/17/07 (6) convocation football field Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 新华网 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-25 Description An account of the resource http://www.enorth.com.cn　 2007-04-17 16:10 弗吉尼亚理工大学校长和当地警方16日下午5时左右在当地共同举办的新闻发布会上表示，一共有33人在该校的枪击事件中死亡，其中包括凶手本人，他最后举枪自杀。在死亡的33人中，除凶手之外的30人全部都死在该校名为诺里斯的工程学院大楼。 　　虽然目前美国警方仍没有透露任何关于凶手的个人信息，也不知道其行凶动机，但警方表示没有证据表明枪击案是恐怖袭击。回首历史上那不堪的多起校园枪杀案不难看出，其直接"导火索"几乎都有惊人的相似之处。美国最近的一次校园枪杀案发生在2007年1月3日，华盛顿州塔科马市的福斯高中一名17岁的学生被另一名学生射杀。2002年4月26日，德国东部爱尔福特市的一所中学内，一个班的学生正在进行紧张的数学考试。突然有一位学生说道："我不要参加这次考试。"随后拔出手枪向周围扫射，17人在这起血洗校园案中丧生。爱尔福特市长则形容这是该市有史以来最黑暗的一天。对准同学的枪口、"不要参加考试"的歇斯底里，这一切似乎在告诉我们，青少年心理健康问题是导致校园血案的重要原因。 　　毋庸讳言，在我国，青少年尤其是大学生群体的心理健康问题，以及由此引发的突发事件同样应引起足够的重视。有关北京市大学生心理健康状况的一项调查显示，大学生中可能有中度以上心理问题的学生占16.51%，大学生认为目前这一群体总体上心理素质很差或较差的比例高达23.1%。对入学新生心理健康状况的跟踪调查表明，每年入学新生的心理健康水平呈逐年下降的趋势。近年来，高校由心理健康问题引发的恶性事件，伤害他人或自杀的事件有所上升，马加爵案就是典型一例。心理问题已经明显影响一部分学生的健康成长。而目前的心理教育和干预的现状是师资力量不足，心理教师队伍的专业化还有很长的路要走。因此，加强大学生心理健康教育应该成为教育部门关注的重点。 　　教育者对于大学生的心理健康教育负有义不容辞的职责。各高校应把心理健康教育融入到整个教育体系中去，更多的着力提高学生的心理调控和适应能力，提升自身处理各类问题的能力，把大学生当做一个完整的人来进行培养。同时要给学生提供帮助渠道，让学生有心理问题时能够得到及时有效的帮助。更为重要的是，教育者应该与全社会共同携起手来，建立健全一个大学生心理问题筛查、干预、控制、跟踪一体化的工作机制，早期发现问题并作出果断及时的处置，避免恶性事件的发生。 　　校园枪杀案不仅仅对美国，而且对我国乃至对世界各国的校园安全问题都再次敲响了警钟。做好校园安全工作，切实保障青少年的生命安全和身心健康，确保不发生恶性事故，是各类学校、各级政府及教育、公安、安监等职能部门的责任，也是全社会共同的义务。 -- Original Source:新华网 <a href="http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2007/04/17/001618617.shtml">http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2007/04/17/001618617.shtml<a/> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 美国校园枪杀案带给我们什么警示 心��康问题 校园安全问题 诺里斯 警示 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 新华网 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-25 Description An account of the resource 发表时间:2007-04-19 11:22 来源:新华网 新华网专稿:16日,弗吉尼亚理工大学发生了美国历史上最严重的枪击事件,当日晚,本报记者驱车从华盛顿赶到该大学所在的布莱克斯堡。昔日宁静的校园还沉浸在浓浓的悲伤气氛之中 ...... 悲伤笼罩美丽校园 在弗吉尼亚理工大学校园外,记者看到校园内的国旗和校旗已经降半旗,校园外面随处可见警车。枪击事件发生后,警方加强了警戒,封锁了校园大门。 布莱克斯堡到处可见从各地赶来采访报道的媒体。在与校园一条马路之隔的弗吉尼亚理工大学饭店内,校方设立了新闻中心。平时空旷的停车场,此时停满了汽车,由于汽车太多,一些车甚至停在平时不准停放车辆的行车道一侧。车场中还停放了几十辆架设有传送卫星信号的电视转播车,时不时会看见记者采访学生。 弗吉尼亚理工大学是弗吉尼亚州的一所州立大学,有2.5万名全日制学生。学校位于弗吉尼亚州西南部,距校园不远处就是绿草茵茵的牧场,风景优美,环境幽静,不过,突然发生的枪击案使学校沉浸在浓浓的悲伤气氛之中。 16日晚,当记者先后试图从两个不同方向驾车进入校园时,均被警察拦住。记者几经周折进入校园,来到事发地点之一的诺里斯教学大楼的外面时,亲身感受到了这种悲伤气氛。 尽管已是阳春4月,但布莱克斯堡仍是春寒料峭,寒风阵阵。在枪击事件造成31人死亡的诺里斯教学大楼前的草坪上,上百名学生聚集在一起,静静地站立在寒风之中,默默地哀悼遇难者。 在不远外的一棵大树下,竖立着两个巨大的红色字母"VT"(弗吉尼亚理工大学的英文缩写),字母下面摆放着一些蜡烛,不时有学生走过,在字母上签上自己的名字,以寄托哀思。 于2005 年毕业于弗吉尼亚理工大学音乐专业的学生琳恩·洛根17日一大早就来到诺里斯教学大楼前,悼念枪击事件中的遇难者。她在"VT"字母上签下自己的名字后, 又跪了下来,默默地为死者祈祷。"弗吉尼亚理工大学是一个美丽的校园。可是今天早上来到校园,看到这里一切静悄悄,我感到浑身发凉",她感叹道。 现年20岁的该校学生希瑟·赛克斯,尽管事发时不在现场,但她在向记者描述自己听来的现场情景时仍禁不住泪流满面。她说,自己曾在诺里斯教学大楼里上过历史课,想到好多同学在枪击现场或受伤或身亡,还有一些人甚至冒着危险从二楼跳下,她就感到不寒而栗,她再也不想到那幢教学楼上课了。 美国历史上最严重的校园枪击案吸引了全美甚至全球的目光,美国各大电视台、报纸和各国驻美记者纷纷涌入布莱克斯堡,对这起事件跟踪报道。记者16日晚结束采访任务准备寻旅馆栖身时才得知,布莱克斯堡镇上的旅馆已经全部客满,最后记者只能驱车在距弗吉尼亚理工大学六七十公里远的地方找一家小旅馆凑合了事。 中国学生松一口气 弗吉尼亚理工大学警长温德尔·弗林彻姆在17日上午举行的新闻发布会上宣布,犯罪嫌疑人是来自韩国的留学生赵承熙,现年23岁,是弗吉尼亚理工大学英语专业4年级学生,拥有"绿卡"。 得知凶手不是中国人,来自中国的留学生松了一口气。 事件发生后,美国一些电视媒体就连续播放凶手的一张照片。照片显示,行凶者是一名亚裔男子,媒体报道称这名男子很可能来自中国,持有学生签证。在警方没有公布调查结果之前,媒体就此作出的大量报道无形中给在弗吉尼亚理工大学学习的数百名中国学生带来了巨大压力。 弗吉尼亚理工大学中国学生学者联谊会成员赵杰禄在接受本报记者采访时说,他最初听到枪击事件的消息时并没有感到惊恐,因为美国经常发生校园枪击案。到了下午,得知有30多人死亡后,他开始担心,担心有中国学生遇难,同样担心遇难者中可能有自己认识的学生。为此,他还发过一番感慨,感到一阵悲凉,感悟生命的脆弱。随后,他与其他同学一起,与该校中国其他学生联系,以确定是否有中国学生在枪击案中伤亡。 一些中国学生告诉记者,从他们了解的情况来看,事发现场还没有发现有中国学生,至少到目前为止,还没有中国学生在枪击事件中受伤或遇难的消息。据记者了解,在弗吉尼亚理工大学学习的中国留学生大约有四五百人,其中绝大多数是研究生,很少有人住在校内,这也许是枪击事件现场还没有发现中国学生的一个主要原因。一位姓谢的中国学生告诉记者,他目前在担任助教,上课的地点恰好位于诺里斯教学楼发生了枪击的205和206教室。所幸的是他上课的时间是周一、周三下午,而不是上午,因此才躲过了一劫。 正在该校攻读化学博士学位的赵杰禄说,他其实对凶手是哪国人并不太感到担忧,因为校园枪击案在美国经常发生,美国人并不会因为一起枪击案中凶手的国籍而因此开始歧视这个国家的学生。不过,如果凶手真是中国学生,至少在半年之内,他自己也会感到很不自在。 亚裔形象或受影响 与部分中国学生心态迥然有异的是,该校中国学生焦金凤的心情却并没有因此而轻松。在该校学习政治学的焦金凤表示,她与几位美国同学合住一套连栋房屋,这些同学对她的态度在枪击事件后并没有明显变化。同学劝告她少出门,尽量不要抛头露面。于是,她16日下午去商店买东西,准备"囤积"能够持续一周的生活用品。令她不安的是,过去与她见面时常友好地点头打招呼的店员,这次见到她时脸上已经没有了笑容。她认为,对于大多数美国人来说,中国人、韩国人都是"亚洲人",从外表上,他们根本无法辨别,即使凶手被确定是韩国人,这起枪击案对其他亚裔学生同样造成了消极影响。 一位来自中国台湾、在该校攻读工商管理硕士学位的谢广仁说,这两天他与同学见面时不讲中文,尽量说英语,昨天传闻说凶手是华裔,我们中国学生都特别紧张,尽管现在警方公布嫌疑人是韩国学生,但中国人模样与韩国人又有多大区别呢?同样都是亚裔人,很难区分,所以我们中国学生也应该谨言慎行。 一同采访枪击案的韩国同行在与本网记者交流时说,这件事情太糟糕了,有可能引起对包括韩国人在内的整个亚裔人士的种族歧视。 17 日,记者采访过程中碰到两名韩国学生,他们在证实自己是韩国人后就开始保持沉默。由该校韩国研究生自发组成的韩人学生会在17日上午举行了对策会议,讨论了具体应对措施。部分韩国学生在和记者交流过程中表示,担心美国对韩国人的成见会加深,现在很难说出自己来自韩国,若有人问起,暂时可能会说自己来自中国或者日本。 17日下午,弗吉尼亚州州长卡因在接受媒体采访时说:"希望类似的事情不再发生,弗吉尼亚理工大学依然欢迎所有的学生。悲剧发生后,我们不少师生都参加了善后工作,接受媒体采访,互相安慰,提供心理咨询等等,其中就有不少亚裔人士,发挥了重要作用。任何一个事件发生,我们大家都会悲伤,但这不是种族歧视的借口。" -- Original Source:新华网 <a href="http://cn.news.yahoo.com/07-04-/1037/2i64j.html">http://cn.news.yahoo.com/07-04-/1037/2i64j.html<a/> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 踏访枪击案后的弗吉尼亚理工大学 弗�尼亚�工大学 媒体 亚裔形象 祈祷 赵�禄 https://www.april16archive.org/files/original/F200704180757522799116953_9b776aca72.jpg.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-15 17:08:05 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 新华网 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Description An account of the resource Thousands of faculties,staffs and students of Virginia Tech stood on the drillfield for vigil. Original Source:新华网 <a href="http://www.southcn.com/news/international/specialreports/qj/tp/200704180623.htm">http://www.southcn.com/news/international/specialreports/qj/tp/200704180623.htm</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Vigil Drillfield vigil virginia tech https://www.april16archive.org/files/original/W020070419349061619134_357d608009.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-15 22:20:00 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 新华网 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Description An account of the resource In Seoul, Koreans mourned for the victims in the shooting. "May all the victims&#39; souls rest in peace". Original Source:新华网 <a href="http://edu.ce.cn/foreign/xy/200704/19/t20070419_11089930.shtml">http://edu.ce.cn/foreign/xy/200704/19/t20070419_11089930.shtml</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Vigil in Korea korea seoul victims Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 新民晚报 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-25 Description An account of the resource http://www.enorth.com.cn　 2007-04-23 16:42 ——探讨美国社会悲剧和丑闻频繁上演的深层原因 当美国媒体近日热衷于讨论枪手赵承熙的心理问题及移民的精神困境时，发生在4月20日的两起事件再一次引起了美国人特别是亚裔社区的震撼和思索。其一为发生在约翰逊航天中心的枪击暴力事件，其二为美国CBS下属电台针对华裔的歧视性言语。枪支泛滥和种族歧视正是导致赵承熙事件的重要原因。但即便是在弗大悲剧之后，这样的悲剧和丑闻仍在频繁上演。 　　歧视言行层出不穷 　　4月20日中午，美国哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)属下的招牌节目、覆盖纽约和新泽西地区的英文广播电台WFNY(92.3FM)"狗窝恶作剧电话秀"，播出了6分10秒的"中国食品"节目。主持人在节目中恶意打电话给一家中餐馆订餐，然后大肆对接电话的一名女招待和两名男招待进行攻击和污辱。"狗娘养的""去餐馆看你的裸体""你火辣的亚洲辣妹的屁股""摸她的臀部""中国佬"等调戏、侮辱和歧视词句不绝于口，节目中直播间里"嘉宾"大笑声不断。目前华人社区已发出强烈抗议，并要求该电台向全体华人道歉。 　　同样是美国哥伦比亚广播公司，4月4日，名牌主持伊穆斯在《晨间伊穆斯》节目中污辱拉特格斯大学女子篮球队队员"像鬈发妓女"，引发轩然大波后，伊穆斯被迫辞职。但伊穆斯在此后参加的一些活动中竟然大受欢迎。 　　美国媒体对少数族裔的歧视言行层出不穷。1月29日，纽约CW11电视台不经核实，诬称纽约"新福建"餐馆卖"芥蓝鼠肉"。虽经当地卫生局检查此事子虚乌有，但华裔社区抗议至今，CW11台仍拒绝道歉。而在弗大枪击案报道中，《芝加哥太阳报》对中国留学生的歧视性报道也引发了华人和留学生群体的抗议，作者迈克尔·史涅德至今仍未出面表示歉意。 　　虽然种族歧视在当今美国已摆不上台面，但种族歧视或者更加隐蔽的排外心理自始至终存在于一些白人头脑中。歧视、抗议，道歉或拒绝道歉，已经是美国一些个人、机构和少数族裔间时不时上演的活剧。就记者所见，华人群体最近抗议歧视的活动几乎月月都有。 　　不愿正视歧视现实 　　在赵承熙事件中，仅美联社对赵承熙在青少年时代遭遇的种种歧视作了较详细的报道。报道称，赵承熙在高中时，课堂发言因为发音不标准而遭到全班同学哄堂大笑，并对他高喊"滚回中国去!"有时会有几个男同学将其推倒在地，加以嘲笑和污辱。赵承熙在寄给NBC电视台的个人声明中称：他被逼到了墙角，他们只给他唯一的选择。并称他的死是为了鼓舞那些"软弱和没有防备能力的人"。 　　但赵承熙的愤怒并没有引起美国社会对其遭受歧视经历的关注，他的声明因为"渲染暴力和恐怖"在遭到民众抗议后迅速从媒体上消失了。媒体和公众讨论时只关注他的"孤僻""怪异"和"暴力倾向"，请心理专家反复讨论他的心理健康问题，或者是讨论移民在美国社会的生存困境。 　　不过事件发生后，美国政府迅速认识到亚裔和移民群体的担心。美国总统布什在针对此案的讲话中表示，移民是美国社会的重要财富，美国不会因为这一个体事件而改变美国的移民政策。 　　但WFNY(92.3FM)电台在赵承熙的控诉播出后照样大肆发表种族歧视言论，足见种族歧视和排外心理在美国部分民众和媒体中何其根深蒂固。要完全创造一个平等友好的多元化环境，美国还有很长的路要走。 　　枪支泛滥难以根除 　　枪支泛滥问题同样是美国社会难以根除的毒瘤。据美国烟草和火器管理局的统计，美国约有2.3亿多支枪械流散在民间，其中步枪约有7300万支，手枪6600万支，猎枪6200万支。全国平均有枪的家庭接近半数，在美国南部则是70%的家庭有枪。美国人口为3亿，接近每个人拥有一支枪! 　　美国司法部2006年公布的报告显示，2005年美国暴力犯罪受害者中有47.704万人称他们面对的犯罪人持有武器。在2001至2005年华盛顿特区发生的1126起凶杀案件中，大约80%使用了致命性武器，而新奥尔良的比例高达92%。美国每年死于枪击的人数超过1万人，相当于一场小规模的战争。 　　记者听一名美国朋友说，他们对枪击案的反应是"麻木了"。新闻媒体差不多每天都有枪击致死案的报道。对枪支暴力事件的恐慌导致的结果是越来越多的人买枪自卫，民间"武器库"越来越膨胀。 　　尽管公众和媒体强烈呼吁约束甚至禁持枪支，但禁枪或加强枪支管理始终是一个"不可能完成的任务"。最强大的阻力是美国宪法。美国宪法第二修正案规定"人民拥有枪支的权利不受侵犯"。而要对宪法进行修改，其麻烦的程序足以让任何一个执政党畏足。另一大阻力来自国家步枪协会。该组织拥有300万名会员，掌握大量选票和游说资源，任何一个总统或州长都对他们忌惮三分。而这个协会冠冕堂皇的理由就是宪法和他们的口号，"杀人的是枪，而不是人"，只要管好人，就不必要禁枪。 　　事实上发生惨案的弗吉尼亚州，正是美国枪支管理最松懈的州之一，有些商店不看政府部门的核准文件，只看驾驶证就卖枪给顾客。而在一些二手商品交易市场和枪支展览会上，甚至不需要任何身份证明就可以买一把枪!所以像赵承熙这样仅持绿卡、且被疑有心理障碍的青少年，轻易拥有了两把手枪和数百发子弹。 -- Original Source:新民晚报 <a href="http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2007/04/23/001631255.shtml">http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2007/04/23/001631255.shtml<a/> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 从弗大悲剧看美社会毒瘤：种族歧视+枪支泛滥 歧视 枪支泛滥 ��歧视 社会毒瘤 https://www.april16archive.org/files/original/20070418130516715458_5fe1f91f0e.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-15 16:09:02 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 新民网 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Description An account of the resource Haiyan Cheng,who experienced the shooting with her students in the Norris Hall on April 16 was talking with the journalist. Original Source: xmnext.com <a href="http://news.xmnext.com/world/shehui/2007/04/18/304206.html">http://news.xmnext.com/world/shehui/2007/04/18/304206.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Haiyan Cheng in an interview haiyan cheng interview norris hall shooting Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 沈柬 贝柴华 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-27 Description An account of the resource http://www.jrj.com　 2007年04月19日 05:00 第一财经日报 沈柬 贝柴华 　　"刚刚跟美国联邦调查局的人又谈话了，好在现在我已经不再是嫌疑犯。"江伟恩在自己的博客里写道。 　　就在24小时前，美国弗吉尼亚理工大学发生致死33人的枪击案，该校中国留学生江伟恩居然被美国个别媒体报道成杀人嫌犯。事后证明，这完全是一条严重的失实报道，真正的元凶其实是一名韩国学生。 　　对此，外交部发言人刘建超昨日表示："美个别媒体在事实未经查明之前发表不负责任的报道，违反了新闻职业道德，是十分错误的做法。我们已要求有关方面消除其负面影响。" 　　"乌龙报道"冤枉中国学生 　　枪击案发生不久，距离学校所在地布莱克斯堡数百公里远的一家报纸《芝加哥太阳报》率先捅出消息说，凶手是一名中国学生。该报专栏作者麦克·斯尼德还煞有介事地称，这名24岁的冷血杀手姓江，去年8月7日乘美国联合航空公司班机从上海飞抵旧金山。后来，影响颇大的FOX电视台也转播了这一报道。 　　FOX电视台的著名主持人李维拉甚至以莫须有的"诱导"口气来提问："假定这名枪手来自中国，是不是因为他来自社会主义国家，因此憎恶美国社会，并进行行凶？" 　　江伟恩在自己的博客上说，他是一名枪支爱好者，并且刚刚与女友分手。博客上也贴着很多他持枪的照片。亚裔、枪迷、刚和女友分手、弗吉尼亚理工大学学生，种种因素把江伟恩推向了人们关注的焦点。几个小时内，他的博客点击率刷新到了4万。 　　16日晚上10点29分，江伟恩"站"了出来。"我不是枪手。在整个事件过程中，我收到了无数个死亡威胁和诽谤指控，手机也因为接电话太多而没了钱，对此当地警方已了解了情况。" 　　他继续在博客里声称："我现在明确宣布，我不是凶手。我愿意接受媒体的采访，谈谈这件事情，证明我的清白。我还愿意就此发表我的看法，即如果其他学生也被允许持有枪支的话，事情可能没那么糟。" 　　其实还在江伟恩自己发布声明之前，对于《芝加哥太阳报》的内容，MSN新闻立即做了跟进，中国新闻社也跟进报道，随后，忍了半天的新浪、搜狐、腾讯网也进行了报道，甚至最后连CCTV的网站也做了相关播报。 　　"不错，我是亚裔，我在学校宿舍里住，我是VT（弗吉尼亚理工大学）的学生，我最近和女友分了手，我还喜欢枪械。但我不是凶手。"江伟恩16日在接受美国广播公司采访时说，自己还拥有美国联邦政府颁发的合法持枪证。 　　"昨晚是一个非常特殊的夜晚，我几乎难以入睡，情况这么复杂，我想我们那些同胞也都不敢去学校了。"不停地被媒体骚扰的江伟恩在第二天的博客里继续写道，"但是我相信媒体从现在开始，将不会使得人们正确的判断发生偏差了。" 　　按照江伟恩自己的陈述，警方之所以很快就将他排除嫌疑，原因有二：首先是他并不拥有本次案件中使用的那种口径的枪支；其次是提取的指纹也不符合。 　　17日上午，美国方面正式宣布，制造该国历史上最严重校园枪击案的凶手身份已经查明，是英语系学生、23岁的韩国人赵承熙。 　　为什么中国人容易被冤 　　虽然最终的消息使很多国人长舒了一口气，但海外华人的形象，还是因为"乌龙报道"而受到了难以挽回的损伤。 　　近年来，美国媒体"妖魔化"中国的倾向时有体现。曾多年任德国自民党主席的奥托·拉姆普斯道夫伯爵指出："早在2003年，美国工业联合会就指称，中国是造成美国2000年中期以来丧失270万个就业岗位的主要原因。这样对美国政府就形成了内政压力，这些情况不禁使人想起了20世纪70 年代的日本。" 　　也许正因为这样，尽管美国政府一直表示自己没有对中国存在偏见，但美国媒体从来没有停止过对"中国威胁"的含沙射影。 　　《华尔街日报》曾发表文章《另一个威胁正在逼近：中国作为一个新的妖魔》，批评美国国内存在将中国妖魔化的倾向。文章称："对中国妖魔化的活动眼下似乎正如火如荼。为了在冷战后的世界中物色一个能够替代原苏联的敌人，美国政治家在越来越大的程度上试图让中国人充当这个角色。" 　　"媒体的妖魔化做法一直存在着，一直没有变化。"2003年1月，清华大学教授李希光发表评论说，"我相信那种亨廷顿的理论——文明的冲突。哈佛大学的亨廷顿教授把这个妖魔化理论上升到极点，上升到文明的冲突。根据他的理论推理，要取得文明的胜利，只能是妖魔化对方。妖魔化就是为了文明的冲突和文明的胜利。" 　　而在个人层面，意大利《生活》杂志负责人胡兰波女士向《第一财经日报》表示，不管在意大利还是美国，由于文化的不同，中国人融入当地社会有比较大的困难。他们对当地主流社会的一切并没有多大兴趣，当地主流社会的人却特别留意外来移民，对外来人是否构成安全问题、工作竞争问题都十分关注。如此一来，难免在中国移民与当地主流社会之间"立起一堵墙"。 　　"而且，很多外国人从心底不希望中国富强，认为一切能源的涨价都与中国有关。这也对中国人在海外生存带来负面因素。"胡兰波称。 　　不会影响中美交往 　　也许正是上述政治的、经济的、文化的深层次原因，使得美国媒体总是避免不了对中国的报道偏见。然而对美国民众而言，这可能造成对他们的"冤枉"。 　　复旦大学美国研究中心的徐以骅教授认为，造成妖魔化中国的主要原因，是美国政府的不当政策。他说："相对而言美国民众是好的。因为美国人比较崇尚个人意识，他们认为个人的行为个人是要负责的，很少往民族上扣帽子。" 　　事实上，弗吉尼亚州州长凯恩昨天也对媒体表示，尽管发生了韩籍留学生枪杀32人的悲剧，他认为，枪案仅仅是个别案件，不会引发对亚裔学生的歧视，弗吉尼亚州立理工大学会继续对外籍学生开放。 　　凤凰卫视评论员阮次山认为："90％的美国媒体在这次报道中表现得比较成熟，而FOX电视台本来就是充满煽情的一个媒体，不能从他们的个别行为来看待美国社会，从而以为美国对中国很仇视。" 　　上海美国研究所副所长倪建平接受本报记者采访时也指出，中美之间近来交往正常，就算该案件是中国人干的，也只能当作个案来处理，并不会对中美关系产生结构性冲击。 　　而中国政府方面在这次事件中的反应——外交部部长李肇星第一时间致电美国国务卿表达慰问，外交部发言人也发表声明，希望民众不要胡乱猜测凶手的身份，"这些都是负责任的表现，也正是成熟大国的外交方式。"阮次山说。 -- Original Source:第一财经日报 <a href="http://finance.jrj.com.cn/news/2007-04-19/000002165336.html">http://finance.jrj.com.cn/news/2007-04-19/000002165336.html<a/> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 弗吉尼亚的枪声与被误伤的华人形象 冤枉 �客 �人形象 弗�尼亚的枪声 江伟� Document A resource containing textual data. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 朱威廉 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-16 Description An account of the resource 2007年04月18日 11:23 作者：朱威廉 美国东部时间16日早晨弗吉尼亚理工大学(Virginia Tech)发生校园枪击事件。截止到北京时间4月17日早晨6点，已经有大约33人死亡，除此以外还有近20人受伤。如果这个数字被最后证实，这将是美国历史上最血腥的校园枪击事件。 根据媒体报道，凶手是单独行动的。我从CNN电视画面中所传来的现场录音分析，行凶者使用的是九毫米半自动手枪。事情经过大家可以看更多的新闻报道，我这里想谈的是为什么校园已经成为了美国最危险的地方。 从心理角度来分析，任何一个对着其他人开枪的人从扣下扳机的刹那便承受着极大的心理压力。即使作为一名警察，在枪战过程中看到疑犯倒地也往往需要经过相当长一段时间的心理咨询和治疗。能手持武器，造成50多人死伤的人已经无法用变态来形容，诸如此类犯罪者的心理远远超出心理学和行为学的分析案例，其丧心病狂程度堪称极致。 从纽约到洛杉矶，横跨美国东西海岸，除去大学外，很多城市的中学也在校门入口处设立了金属侦探器。越来越多的美国校园开始警戒并配备校警，甚至在不少中学校警已经开始佩枪巡逻。1999年科罗拉多州一所中学枪击事件发生后，美国佩枪校警在接受培训时被要求在特殊情况下(持枪者进入校园)采取"优先行动"――既在第一时间击毙疑犯。 美国校园枪击事件始于1966年德克萨斯州，以1999年科罗拉多州高中校园枪击事件――两名学生杀死十二名同学和一名老师后进入高发期。美国校园从那时候开始已经成为了学生和家长们最担心的地方。 持枪者为什么喜欢选择校园？这与美国媒体毫无节制的大肆报道不无关系。每次校园枪击案件发生的同时，美国各大媒体即开始实况转播。有时候电视直播车甚至比警察还要早一步到达现场。电台、电视台的现场直播给予作案者极大的心理满足感。杀得越多，越能满足扭曲的心理；杀得越多，越能达到报复、宣泄、让全美国和全世界瞩目的效果。 持枪者选择校园的另一个原因是学校教室相比其它环境封闭，极易满足持枪者在最小空间控制或者屠杀最大人群的条件。在通常只有一个门的学校教室里，警察就算将持枪者团团包围也不敢轻举妄动。在空间狭小并且拥有大批人质的室内进行"暴力进攻"是警察的大忌。校园持枪者从来没有做出活着出来的打算，所以往往是持枪者大开杀戒后还有充裕时间饮弹自尽。而全副武装、手持各种先进武器的警察大部分时候只能扮演救护伤者和抬尸体的角色。 枪支泛滥是美国面临的另一个重大社会问题。美国宪法赋予公民持有枪支权，但是合法持有枪械的公民却无法保证他们的孩子不会将这些在家里合法的枪支携带外出。除此以外，大量在黑市和帮派手中流动的违法枪支根本无从追踪。为此专门成立的ATF(美国烟酒与火器管理局)基本上至烟酒于不顾，数十年来将大部分资源和精力放在武器管控方面，却一直收效甚微。 随着科技的发展，好莱坞以假乱真的影视制作技术以及游戏开发公司的血腥游戏场面将暴力推向了一个前所未有的高度。无论是在电影还是游戏中，只要手持武器，便能操控世界。而这一切都建立在虚拟人物片面的价值观以及狭义的"Cause"(理想)。美国的年轻一代正是在这种熏陶下长大的。电影中的英雄可以杀人无数，游戏中的人物可以无视规则。无论是电影还是游戏，其逼真程度已经无法让这些孩子分辨虚拟和现实的差别。所以，拿起一把抢去滥杀无辜对于他们来说已经不再是什么新鲜事物，而唯一所要承担的后果也仅仅是像电影中的英雄那样死去而已。死，对于他们来说，只不过是一次现实中的"重启"。 美国总统布什先生无一例外的又一次站出来发表了全国电视讲话，他除了表示沉痛的哀悼和慰问外并许诺会给当地政府和家庭以最大的支持。布什先生的言语显得软弱无力且没有自信。 CNN(美国有线新闻网)的Breaking News以不中断形式将这起震惊美国和世界的校园屠杀案件循环播放。当绝大多数美国人还沉浸在震惊和迷茫中的时候，有那么几个年轻人肯定在电视机前目不转睛的看着，然后想着那些曾经与他们有过纠葛的同学或者痛恨着的老师，计划着下一个震惊世人的行动。 就像一名伊拉克大学生在网上给一名美国弗吉尼亚理工大学生留言说的那样："我依旧可以在我这个充满动荡的国土上平静的生活，而你那和平的家园却危险重重"。 发生在弗吉尼亚理工大学的校园屠杀惨案是"后911时代"美国经历的又一次沉重的打击。只不过这一次美国却无法找到他真正的"敌人"。这个惨案不仅让美国人民对本土的安全彻底丧失信心，还将在更长远的未来、更深远的层面影响着美国社会。 -- Original Source:凤凰网 www.phoenixtv.com <a href="http://news.phoenixtv.com/special/qiangjian/genzong/200704/0418_988_104763.shtml">http://news.phoenixtv.com/special/qiangjian/genzong/200704/0418_988_104763.shtml</a> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 朱威廉：美国校园枪击事件 后911时代又一沉重打击 校园枪击事件 枪支泛滥 美国社会 Document A resource containing textual data. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource 林达 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-27 Description An account of the resource 更新时间： 2007-04-25 15:43:14 林达 弗吉尼亚理工大学枪击案消息传来，震惊之余，或许我比他人多一层感受。大概持续十年，我每年都去那里一次，这个小镇和州际公路拉开一段距离，非常安静。虽说是南方山区小镇，给人的印象却是开放和国际化的；虽是一所理工大学，风气却很艺术和人文，记得在学生中心还一直悬挂着两张学校收藏的现代手法的经典东方庭院画作，美极了。现在，从电视里看着我们去过的熟悉地方，发生如此惊人事件，自然特别难以接受。事件发生后，评论蜂拥而出。我想，更应该做的，大概是就事论事。 一个精神错乱的个人 对这一事件的评论延伸到一系列话题，如种族问题、种族品性和教育，再延伸到美国的持枪自由等等。洛杉矶加大教授普雷特就在《潘基文也是韩国人》中评道："在将韩国学生从校园驱逐出去之前，应该先谈谈美国允许个人自由持有枪支的问题......不应该忘记，为饱受内战煎熬的苏丹带来和平而努力的联合国秘书长潘基文也是韩国人。"这种评论实在离题，他的假设前提是虚妄的。美国并没有要把韩国学生"赶出校园"的公众舆论，以此引出评论就成了自说自话。正在竞选的希拉里评论得更夸张，把话题延伸到政治层面："这一事件传达了一个信息：必须改变了！"意思是发生如此恶性事件，再也不能继续下去，大选应考虑换党换人—— 话题落到她的竞选上。 上述种种话题，种族、教育、持枪自由、政党轮换，话题都独立存在而有意义，只是一定要依附在这个事件上，有的就很勉强。例如，持枪自由在两百多年前被写入美国宪法，有它的历史理由，今天讨论这个命题，也有它的理由，讨论还会长久持续。可是，从常识角度去看，在这一事件上，与其高瞻远瞩地讨论自由问题，还不如检讨具体的制度漏洞。如法律规定卖枪必须对顾客做犯罪记录的背景调查，现在似乎还应该考虑，如何规定实施对顾客精神病史的背景调查。发挥过度反而掩盖事件本质，妨碍吸取真正教训。 所幸绝大多数美国民众是成熟的，反应冷静。成熟的标志是遇事从常识出发，把事情局限在"一是一，二是二"的范围。此案不复杂："导致本案原因，只是一个精神错乱的个人。"从常识出发的简单判断，避免了不必要的过度反应。任何国家都有精神疾患的病人，这是一个常识；即便世界上没有枪，他还是可能开一辆汽车撞死同样多的人，这也是常识。因此，这是一个单纯的偶然事件和悲剧。基于这样的认识，民众悲伤地上教堂，在校园放上悼念的鲜花，对学生做心理辅导；乐队在住着伤者的医院草坪上列队，吹起鼓舞人心的管乐，相互打气，试图从哀恸中自己如何才能"评"得"语出惊人"，也不必考虑如何利用这走出来，恢复信心和希望，早日回到原来的生活轨道。这个时候，民众表现常常比评论家和政治人物更正常，因为他们凭常识看待非常事件和正常生活的关系，不需要端起架子考虑个事件，讨论一个"重大命题"。　　 什么样的病患和教训 根据报道，这次枪击事件的制造者，童年时被诊断为自闭症。自闭症在各国都是一个有一定比例的精神疾病。它的特征是，先天形成、病因不明，病况各不相同而复杂，至今没有治愈可能，患者的社会化程度极低。医学界对自闭症的研究历史很短，只有将近六十年，而中国对自闭症引起注意只有二十多年。大家对这个病症缺乏知识，而仅仅中国就有至少180万患者。他们生活在自己的世界里，无法根据他人感受调节控制自己的行为。 各国都试着从积极方面介绍自闭症，例如美国电影《雨人》和一些对自闭症专才的报道，希望借此引起社会对病患的关爱，这当然是对的。同时，自闭症患者差异非常大，很多患者属于医学上所说的"高功能性自闭症病人"，在训练后能够参与一定程度的学习和工作，美国医界的对应思路还是尽量训练他们自立、在社会中生活，这也有它的合理性。可是，这样的思路走过头，也因此忽略了更重要的另一面的介绍和关注，就是自闭症患者无法调控自己的行为、此疾病的本质就是无法适应社会，一些病患也可能被异常愤怒情绪控制，具有攻击性和破坏性，自身也因此处于极大危险中。在我看来，这一事件的最大教训，是社会必须对精神方面的疾患引起高度重视，跟踪关注和评判病患每一阶段的精神变异程度，采取相应措施。这次的枪手很早就被发现有极端的暴力幻想，学校和教师却没有引起足够重视，没有相应的治疗和措施。社会应该从医学研究的特殊角度，去了解病患感受，以最大可能保护他们的安全，满足他们的特殊要求。同时也注重有效预测他们的行为，尽量减低他们和社会的病态冲突。 类似事件在中国也曾经发生。曾有一名大学生连续杀害了几名自己的同学室友(即马加爵事件，编者注)，社会反应大多集中到"贫困导致愤怒"的"社会反思"上，完全忽略这个年轻人从小就表现出来的精神异常。这样文不对题的讨论，最终结果就是社会无法吸取应该吸取的教训，无法对未来有可能防范的类似恶性事件增加防范。　　 新闻热点和人性弱点 枪击事件在中国引发的另一个话题，有关新闻热点。几乎在美国事件发生的同时，中国发生矿难，有和枪击事件牺牲者同样数量的矿工死亡。有人感叹中国媒体和公众对两个事件的关注程度有很大差异，质疑是否在大家心目中，美国人的命"更值钱"？其实，这是一个新闻性问题。所谓新闻性就是一句大家熟悉的新闻界格言："狗咬人不是新闻，人咬狗才是新闻"，相比之下，后者有更大的新闻性。 很少有人直面新闻性的本质所在。尤其在中国，长期来人们习惯于把一切政治化社会化或者道德化，其实是思维简化。因此人们常常忽略一个事实，就是人最不了解的其实是自己，最不愿意正视的是自己的器质性的精神状态。人是有共同弱点的，这些弱点与生俱来。新闻性规律的存在就是一个最明显的证明。不论事件本身的性质如何刺激，假如重复多次，人会普遍产生精神和反应的疲劳，本能地会降低对事件的关注和兴趣，转而追求仅仅因为"新奇或罕见"而被认为更具"刺激性" 的"新闻"。这就是新闻性之人性弱点的基础。换句话说，假如中国发生类似的校园枪击事件，它在美国引发的关注程度，一定强过造成同样人数死亡的伊拉克自杀炸弹的新闻。因为前者是罕见的新奇事件，后者重复发生，新闻性已经很低。 新闻性所表达的人性弱点，是一个值得大家清醒认识的事实，对新闻界尤其如此。你不可能违背新闻规律，忽略新闻性；也不应该刻意迎合人的弱点，一味追求 "人咬狗"新闻，从而忽略新闻界应尽的社会责任。因此，在关注美国校园枪击案同时，中国新闻业者在提醒读者，必须关注自己土地上发生的悲剧，这是一个负责任的行为。我们还应该提出这样的问题，我们自己的悲剧为什么重复发生？为什么重复到了已经使人精神疲劳、新闻性降低到了不提醒就可能被忽略的程度？ 由此我们应该认识到，新闻业的作用不能低估、也不必高估。它在一定限度内发生作用。防止悲剧的真正步骤，还是需要对症下药的具体措施甚至立法，以及强有力的实施措施和执法的能力。 -- Original Source:www.tecn.cn <a href="http://www.tecn.cn/data/detail.php?id=14088">http://www.tecn.cn/data/detail.php?id=14088<a/> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 林达：我看弗吉尼亚校园枪击案 人性弱点 校园枪击案 病患和教训 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Haeyong Chung Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bae Ji-Sook Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-10-11 Description An account of the resource By Bae Ji-sook Staff Reporter The Virginia Tech massacre by a South Korean student shocked the entire nation, including netizens. On Tuesday, netizens posted articles expressing their shock as well as paying condolences to the victims of the tragedy. On portal Web sites, special categories were made to express how sorry they feel for the victims and their survivors. Everyone said that there should never be violence that threaten other people&#39;s freedom and lives. After CNN and other reports broke the news that the suspect is Cho Seung-hui, a native Korean living in the United States with a green card, many people were astonished. ``I couldn&#39;t believe that someone like me was really involved in this brutal murder,&#39;&#39; a netizen (ID hahaha) said. Other people showed the same response as they said they have begun to feel more responsibility for the case when they found out that a Korean was involved. Others said that the case looked similar to some cases happening in the Korean military where young soldiers try to desert from their barracks out of love or relationship issues. There were also rising concerns over the safety of Koreans living in the U.S. According to some reports, in Centerville, where Cho has lived with his family, American students throwing bread at Korean students were reported. In Los Angeles, some students were threatened by their peers who told them to go back to their own country. ``At the moment many people are concentrating on the issue of private weapons, and there are not many people accusing Koreans. However, I assume there will be some more talking about his ethnicity, and the hatred will pour out,&#39;&#39; another netizen (ID: Menia) said. Some are concerned whether the case would bring a bad image to the country and work as a setback to issues the country is trying to push such as a visa waiver or hosting PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Those who are willing to visit or study in the U.S. are worried over the possibility that getting visas would become more difficult. ``Back in 2001, I remember that getting a visa was quite difficult right after the Sept. 11 tragedy and I hope it would not happen this time,&#39;&#39; said Koh, a 25-year-old student who is planning to study in the U.S. There are also questions raised over studying abroad at a very young age _ quite the fashion in Korea at the moment. As domestic media in the U.S. referred to Cho as a ``loner,&#39;&#39; people are now questioning whether sending their kids abroad for study is a good idea. There were constant reports of children feeling lonely and causing problems with drinking, doing drugs or having sex problems, but the massacre has triggered the debate on whether such studying is really needed. Cho flew to America when he was a little kid, and is said to have not made himself accustomed to the different culture. ``I think his being alone made him a loner, and made him do something horrible. And would you still say that won&#39;t happen to your child?&#39;&#39; a blogger grandchyren asked. The netizens plan to hold a candle vigil for the victims of the massacre at the Seoul City Hall plaza on Sunday evening. bjs@koreatimes.co.kr -- Original Source: Korea Times <a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=1205&categoryCode=117 ">http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=1205&categoryCode=117</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Virginia Massacre Shocks Netizens korea times Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sara Hood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Barbara Rodriguez Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-14 Description An account of the resource <b>BU assessing safety, mental health concerns</b> By: Barbara Rodriguez Posted: 4/18/07 Boston University officials are still assessing how Monday&#39;s deadly shootings at Virginia Tech will prompt any changes in BU&#39;s security and mental health services. Officials will be monitoring the campus "climate" during the next few days, speaking with the Office of Residence Life and other departments that work with students, said Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore. More than 100 BU community members gathered on Marsh Plaza yesterday afternoon at a candlelight vigil to remember the victims, many of whom were Virginia Tech students and a few professors. Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech senior from South Korea, shot and killed 30 people in an academic building around 9:15 a.m., two hours after he killed two students in a residence hall Monday morning on the Blacksburg, Va. campus. Cho injured more than 15 others and shot and killed himself following the second shooting, police say. Marsh Chapel officials have been talking with students in person and through email, said Marsh Chapel dean Robert Hill. Representatives from the Florence & Chafetz Hillel House and the Newman House, which houses the university&#39;s Catholic Center, were also available at the vigil. "I was surprised by the number [of people at the vigil]," Hill said. Elmore and BU Police Department Chief Thomas Robbins attended a city safety meeting at the Boston Police Department headquarters yesterday afternoon where representatives from 19 area schools discussed ways to improve safety protocols and communication among city and local agencies, Elmore said. "We will be in a continual assessment," addressing BU&#39;s training response, how departments communicate with each other and the various city and state agencies they work with, he said. "We know we&#39;ve got a network of public safety," Elmore said. "It is still important to assess [BU&#39;s] crisis response." BU officials are continuing to offer chaplain and counseling services. Marsh Chapel officials are inviting students to gather at 11 a.m. today at the chapel for another moment of prayer, Hill said. "Our hearts really go out to the people in Virginia," he said. "We know what it means to grieve." Many faculty members, parents, students and staff contacted the Dean of Students Office yesterday with suggestions and concerns about how BU could handle a campus shooting, Elmore said. Elmore, who hosts weekly conversations with students in the Howard Thurman Center, will focus the first portion of Friday&#39;s discussion on the shooting, while a behavioral medicine representative will be present for counseling. "There&#39;s lots of issues about violence and people&#39;s personal safety," Elmore said. The Albert and Jesse Danielson Institute, one of BU&#39;s psychological facilities, is also offering students counseling services despite an extensive waiting list to be treated, said Clinical Director Dr. Jorge Stavros. Stavros said if students contact the Institute with an "acute reaction" to the shootings, the office will make an appointment for them immediately. As of last night, no students had contacted the Institute in regard to the shootings. Elmore is encouraging BU community members of the BU community to reach out to others and alert officials if they suspect someone behaving suspiciously. "If it doesn&#39;t feel right to us, we have to report it," he said. "I&#39;m always encouraging students to be mindful about their own personal safety." -- Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/04/18/News/Grieving.Nation.Copes.With.Tragedy-2849522.shtml> The Daily Free Press - April 18, 2007</a> Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Daily Free Press Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Matt Negrin <editor@dailyfreepress.com> Title A name given to the resource Grieving nation copes with tragedy boston university coping grief tragedy vigil Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Batz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-11 Description An account of the resource Publicado por Batz Friday, April 20, 2007 Todos vimos/leímos sobre la matanza que hubo en Virginia Tech esta semana. Un suceso terrible que personalmente me sorprendió mucho por estar tan cercano al pueblo al que me fui de intercambio en 1997, y a donde muchos de mis amigos fueron a estudiar tras graduarnos de la preparatoria. Por las fechas en que terminamos la escuela, supuse que no habría nadie que yo conociera, pero igual me hizo sentir gran pesar. Que pena que fuera así como viera a mi ex casa por las noticias, en vez de algo de lo lindo que conocí en ese año. La noche siguiente, estando en el MSN, me encontré con mi novio de esa época [y durante 4 años]. Nos saludamos y me dio una muy mala noticia. Me dijo que uno de los estudiantes asesinados es [era] amigo suyo, y hermano de una de mis compañeras de generación: <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jarrett_lane/index.html">Jarret Lane</a>. Su hermana Alicia y yo no somos amigas, pero compartimos mucho tiempo juntas en el equipo de basketball. Como dije antes, todos pensamos que el suceso fue terrible, pero ahora que me da como un calambre pensar lo pequeño que es el mundo, y que con esta sociedad cada vez menos propensa a solucionar sus frustraciones de forma sana, nos vemos mas expuestos a ataques como este. Narrows es un lugar muy chiquito, todos se conocen y ahora se encuentran inmersos en una tristeza general que me ha llegado hasta acá. So sad... -- Fuente Original: Batz&#39; Journal <a href="http://batzjournal.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech.html">http://batzjournal.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech.html</a> Licencia de uso: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/mx/"> Creative Commons Atribución-No Derivadas 2.5 México. Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Atribución-No Derivadas 2.5 México Title A name given to the resource Virginia Tech current lane nostalgia Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource BAYAMÓN | AP Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-18 Description An account of the resource BAYAMÓN | AP Abril 24, 2007 Tras una ceremonia en la que nadie quiso hablar de la matanza que cobró su vida, el estudiante puertorriqueño de la Universidad Virginia Tech Juan Ramón Ortiz Ortiz fue sepultado este martes en un funeral privado. En lugar de hablar de su muerte, sus amigos y familiares prefirieron hablar de su vida. Fue lo más cercano a la perfección, expresó Jesús Ortega sobre su amigo desde la infancia. Ortiz Ortiz fue una de las 32 personas que mató Cho Seung-Hui, un estudiante de literatura inglesa de 23 años de edad, antes de suicidarse con una pistola el lunes de la semana pasada. Juan fue un árbol que dio fruto a temprana edad: benignidad, paciencia, justicia y amor. Celebremos hoy la vida que con tan sólo 26 años Juan compartió con nosotros, dijo el profesor Amado Vélez, de la Universidad Politécnica donde estudió el joven. Vélez destacó que la timidez del joven era opacada por sus acciones: Hablaban más de lo que la alocución podía decir. Durante los actos fúnebres, los padres del joven ingeniero acompañaron en todo momento a la viuda Liselle Vega Cortés, quien también se encontraba en Virginia Tech al momento de la masacre. El trío permaneció silencioso y en aparente calma durante la triste jornada de despedida, en la que amigos como Ortega volvieron a sonreír al recordar el amor de Ortiz Ortiz por el ritmo de salsa, al que dedicó parte de su vida. Era tan fanático de la salsa que una vez... puso música de salsa (en el automóvil) y se llenó de tanta alegría que se bajó del carro y bailó en el mismo medio de la acera, relató Ortega. Para el párroco de la Iglesia San José, José María Almendariz, la muerte de Ortiz Ortiz fue inexplicable. No hay ninguna explicación humana para el dolor que no sea mirando a Cristo, expresó a los más de 200 amigos y familiares que abarrotaron la Iglesia San José de Bayamón, a las afueras de San Juan. La matanza de Virginia Tech ha sido considerada la peor masacre estudiantil en la historia contemporánea de Estados Unidos. -- Fuente Original: El Universo.com - Guayaquil, Ecuador <a href="http://www.eluniverso.com/2007/04/24/0001/14/E53E61E6CC9C4BA6A5C38563C829AFA0.aspx">http://www.eluniverso.com/2007/04/24/0001/14/E53E61E6CC9C4BA6A5C38563C829AFA0.aspx</a> Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource José Darío Maldonado Jefe Unidad de Negocios Internet DIARIO EL UNIVERSO jmaldonado@eluniverso.com Title A name given to the resource Sepultan en Puerto Rico a víctima de matanza en Virginia Tech ortiz puerto rico Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Baylor Editorial Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-02-05 Description An account of the resource Aug. 20, 2007 Anytime a tragedy occurs we ask ourselves how it could have happened and how it can be prevented from ever happening again. So in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, gun rights advocates began calling for the repealing of bans on carrying concealed weapons on school campuses. The national organization of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is one such group. There are eight chapters of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus in Texas, the most of any state. Current Texas law forbids the carrying of concealed weapons in places like school campuses, places of worship and government property -- even if a person is licensed to carry. Arlington senior Andrew Sugg, head of Baylor&#39;s SCCC chapter, seeks to make it possible for students to arm themselves at Baylor. Groups like these have to use circular logic to reach their conclusions. Because a deranged individual brought guns onto campus, Sugg and others believe they should be allowed to bring theirs in order to protect themselves. What the gun lobby conveniently forgets is that the mental history of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho should have prevented him from ever obtaining a gun in the first place. Cho&#39;s mental history was recognized by a Virginia court in 2005, and due to inconsistencies between federal and state law, he was not entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The problem is not with the laws, but with the ability of the system to work properly. If it did, Cho would not have been able to purchase a gun and the conversation may not have gone in this direction. While it is clear that the response time of Virginia Tech&#39;s campus police was inadequate, this does not mean we should allow anyone who has gone through a criminal history check and a safety course to be a substitute for law enforcement. This vigilante attitude of circumventing the responsibility of law enforcement could potentially create many serious problems. The majority of people who receive licenses to carry concealed weapons are responsible individuals, but they do not receive nearly the same level of training to handle situations that police do. Although they do not receive the same amount of press coverage as a school shooting, accidents involving guns are far more common. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there were 776 accidental deaths and 75,685 injuries from firearms in 2001. It would be naïve to say that if bans on guns at these locations are repealed, there would be no accidents as a result. The purpose of banning concealed weapons in certain places is because the state has a responsibility to ensure the safety of its citizens in those locations. How wise would it be to allow someone to carry a concealed weapon to a stadium? A church? Better yet, how about an airport? Baylor police chief Jim Doak was quoted in Baylor Line magazine saying it would be "unwise" to lift campus bans. We couldn&#39;t agree more. Baylor SCCC has good intentions at heart -- making campus safer. But before we arm ourselves, there are other steps we can take that are both easier to implement and less double-edged. One step is to have better emergency planning. School lockdowns for threats are commonplace at our nation&#39;s high schools -- the capacity for emergency response should be no different in colleges. Another step is to better enforce the laws and have tighter background checks. Too many loopholes in state and federal laws are allowing people who shouldn&#39;t be able to, to get guns. Even if state laws are changed, Baylor as a private institution has the right to ban concealed weapons on its own. We hope it continues to keep its rules in place, even if state schools allow concealed carry on their campuses. -- Original Source: The Lariat <a href="http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=46387">http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=46387</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Julie Freeman (Julie_Freeman@baylor.edu) Title A name given to the resource Editorial: Gun groups gone wrong baylor concealed carry on campus gun rights guns on campus https://www.april16archive.org/files/original/William and Mary_e34b56fb19.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Chad Newswander Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bean Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-08 Description An account of the resource We here in Virginia at William & Mary, we felt a shock wave go thought out our campus on Monday . Many of our students went to high school with the victims, but just being in the same kind of environment made us feel vulnerable and sadden. Governor Kaine has declared, Friday, April 20, a statewide day of mourning for the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy and their families. Virginia Tech families members across the country have united to declare Friday, April 20, and "Orange and Maroon Effect Day" to honor those killed earlier this week and to show visible support for Virginia Tech students, faculty, administrators, staff, alumni, and friends. For this reason I&#39;ll only upload this 1 photo today in honor of the victims We Remember: • Ross Abdallah Alameddine • Christopher James Bishop • Brian Roy Bluhm • Ryan Christopher Clark • Austin Michelle Cloyd • Jocelyne Couture-Nowak • Kevin P. Granata • Matthew Gregory Gwaltney • Caitlin Millar Hammaren • Jeremy Michael Herbstritt • Emily Jane Hilscher • Jarrett Lee Lane • Matthew Joseph La Porte • Henry J. Lee • Liviu Librescu • Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan • Lauren Ashley McCain • Daniel Patrick O&#39;Neil • J. Ortiz-Ortiz • Minal Hiralal Panchal • Daniel Alejandro Perez • Erin Nicole Peterson • Michael Steven Pohle, Jr. • Julia Kathleen Pryde • Mary Karen Read • Reema Joseph Samaha • Waleed Mohamed Shaalan • Leslie Geraldine Sherman • Maxine Shelly Turner • Nicole Whit Original source: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlerottenrobin/466050433/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlerottenrobin/466050433/</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Permission: http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlerottenrobin/466050433/ Title A name given to the resource Today we are all hokies message board messages university memorial william and mary Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sara Hood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Behzad Varamini Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-10 Description An account of the resource By Behzad Varamini Apr 25 2007 <i>Gain Through Loss</i> Hours after students cowered behind desks and played dead in hopes that Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui would spare their lives, minutes after the body count was made public and started to climb, it took only seconds for the gluttonous demons in dark corners of men&#39;s souls to perk up and devise a plan on how to best capitalize on a tragic story that even satisfied the devil himself. Atheists and evangelicals, gun-toters and arms opposers, and other talking heads with punches to throw delayed healing by using the backdrop of the tragic killings to guilefully push their own agendas. Amidst these vultures, perhaps the most flagrant exploiter of the catastrophe was NBC News, who decided to air self-taken photographs and a homemade video of Cho multiple times over national airwaves, just two days after the events took place and literally hours after the videos were received. In between the first and second set of murders last Monday, April 16, the killer put the finishing touches on the video and overnighted it, along with a series of photographs, to NBC News headquarters. Soon after the tapes of wrath aired, NBC President Steve Capus made a statement assuring Americans that the network struggled with the decision to release the videos. In the end, however, NBC pinned their collective conscious into submission and granted the psychotic killer a public posthumous forum, completing the final phase of Cho&#39;s demonic plan. Just a quick look at the pictures and videos makes Capus&#39; motives clear. Stamped into the top-left corner of the video and every still of Cho is the NBC news logo — peacock and all. NBC News anchor Brian Williams admitted in a later interview that airing even part of the video would promise the killer the martyrdom he hoped to achieve. In the name of profit, NBC served as an instrumental accomplice, helping make Cho&#39;s plan come to complete fruition and allowing the friends and families of the victims the opportunity to look into the eyes of the gun-wielding killer, the same eyes their loved ones saw before losing their lives. Releasing the video helped further what Cho started, burying the lives of the innocent underneath layers of dirt and self-serving agendas. Feeling disgust after being repeatedly showered with sponsored images and videos of the killer, I began to wonder how much information was publicly known about the innocent victim&#39;s lives. Online newspapers such as the New York Times provided brief bios and one or two photos of each victim. Hometowns, majors and quotes from friends provided abbreviated and filtered second-hand accounts of the victim&#39;s lives; accounts which didn&#39;t seem to satisfy my suddenly aching need to find out who these kids really were, what they did for fun and what they hoped and dreamed of. As unthinkable as it may seem, links to MySpace profiles provided what is probably the most personal and endearing insights available about the victim&#39;s lives in their own words. The first MySpace profile I came across was that of freshman Lauren McCain. Lauren was a 20-year old international studies major from Oklahoma. Her brother Joel was listed as her hero. She hoped to have children one day and wanted to meet Andre the Giant because he was "sooooo cool!" Of all the details on her page, none proved more horrifying than time-stamped comments from friends which evolve from hellos and jokes to urgent pleas asking Lauren to call her parents to grieving memoirs describing her as a great role model and friend. Further agonizing are Lauren&#39;s pictures. Several display her presumable love of nature and outdoors and she stands in front of a botanical garden in one shot and in another overlooks the horizon on a sunny day in San Diego. Littered with goofy comments and exclamation points, Lauren&#39;s profile began to reflect a young and lively girl. As much as I ache to help, situations like these leave me feeling completely unqualified as a voice and helpless as a human being. I know Virginia Tech has established a Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund to assist victims and their families. Though I am hesitant in suggesting a financial contribution at the expense of the valid criticism that money won&#39;t make things better, I trust the fund was established because families and the school legitimately need help and I ask everyone to consider donating. Though I never knew Lauren and only know about her what she decided to reveal on her MySpace page, I am convinced that the world is a lesser place without her and the other 31 people lost in this immeasurable catastrophe. I pray healing and comfort will come swiftly to all those affected so that one day soon, we can begin to live life the way it was originally intended, before wretched souls began turning innocent loss into their own gain. <i>Behzad Varamini is a graduate student in Nutritional Sciences. He can be contacted at bv29@cornell.edu. Gain Through Loss appears alternate Wednesdays.</i> -- Original Source: <a href=http://cornellsun.com/node/23140>Cornell Daily Sun - April 25, 2007</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Jonny Lieberman <jdl46@cornell.edu>, <lieberman.jonny@gmail.com> Title A name given to the resource NBC, MySpace and V.T. cornell media profit Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-03-24 Description An account of the resource Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke Last Thursday, February 14th, 2008, Steven Kazmierczak reportedly shot and killed five students, and then turned a weapon on himself at Northern Illinois University. At least sixteen students were wounded in the rapid-fire shootings in this large NIU lecture hall during class. We have few certain details about the shooter, except that he used four weapons, two of which were purchased legally within the past week—a shotgun and a 9mm Glock semi-automatic handgun. Ironically, he purchased two magazines and a holster for the Glock from the same online vendor which sold Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter, one of his guns through a dealer transfer last spring. Apparently, he was a good student (a former sociology major at NIU) who had no police record. He was pursuing graduate studies in social work at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. It was also rumored that he recently had ceased taking mood-modifying medication and had broken up with a live-in girl friend. He was 27 when he died in the large NIU lecture hall. Yet, there was another side to him. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 2001, but soon was "administratively discharged" within six months. More recently, he took a job as an officer at the Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana in September 2007, but he failed to complete his preliminary training after only two weeks, and then never returned to work. The shooting in DeKalb, Illinois occurred almost exactly ten months after the shootings at Virginia Tech last April, when 33 died, including students in classrooms, some of their professors, and the gunman himself. On November 7, 2007 Pekka Eric Auvinen walked into his high school in Tuusula, Finland, and shot eight people, killing five, and then also turned the gun on himself. There are parallels between these three bloody events: The shooters were young males; they used deadly semi-automatic weapons; they burst into school classrooms to do their damage; they took their own lives. There were apparent differences, too, although as yet we know next to nothing about the &#39;real&#39; Steve Kazmierczak. Cho had already been identified in the Virginia mental health system as a troubled individual, and a potentially dangerous one at that. And Auvinen and Cho left video and written manifestos. In his testimony, Cho acknowledged the inspiration of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, who killed twelve of their high-school classmates and a teacher at Columbine in Colorado on April 20, 1999. How are we to understand the sequencing and connections among Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tuusula, and now Northern Illinois? It is unimaginable that the Valentine Day&#39;s Massacre in DeKalb would have occurred in the way that it did without Virginia Tech having occurred, as the December shootings in Finland also demonstrated. Tech is imbedded in DeKalb as its prototype and possibility. Kazmierczak might have found other ways to kill and to die without the example of Tech (and Columbine or Tuusula before it), but he surely framed his actions last Thursday within the scenario of last April in Blacksburg, Virginia. This is not to suggest that DeKalb is simply a copy-cat killing. What did Klebold, Harris, Cho, Auvinen, and Kazmierczak have in common that led them to enact these epic killings and suicides, on school grounds? It seems they were alone in a crowd; they were alienated, lacking social ties. Whether they were mentally ill or not is somewhat beside the point. They might have been stopped, helped, redirected—yes, even medicated. We are intensely interested in the experience of being alone in a crowd, in Cho&#39;s case as an Asian-American outsider on a big-time college/fraternity campus, which considers itself &#39;Hokie Nation,&#39; —the illusion of tight community achieved through the gridiron Gemeinschaft of the Virginia Tech campus. And in the hours after the NIU attack, the response in DeKalb, Illinois and around the nation was to appeal to the school&#39;s athletic mascot, the Husky, and tout "Huskie Spirit." Perhaps we know only this: people more on the inside do not tend to commit mass murder and then take their own lives. It cannot escape notice that the killers at Columbine, Blacksburg, Tuusula and DeKalb were men. Women usually do not embark on shooting/suicide escapades, even though not even a week before on February 8, 2008 at Louisiana Technical College a female student shot two classmates and then herself in a classroom. Four of the five killed at DeKalb were women students, and many of those killed in Tuusula and Blacksburg also were female. This is a potent admixture: social isolation, male gun culture, fantasies of revenge. Were the killers evil madmen predestined to wreck havoc? Were they beyond social influence and redirection? They committed mad acts, to be sure. But there is a thin boundary between those who keep their demons within, and at bay, and those who erupt. The answer to these acts of deliberate madness lies not in armoring our campuses but in acknowledging people&#39;s interior turmoil and trying to help, where possible. This is difficult amid a sea of faces in large college lecture halls. But can we afford to reduce such acts merely to irreversible psychopathology? Columbine and Virginia Tech have now become a set piece—a media spectacle--with a certain inexorable momentum. Ben Agger is professor of sociology and humanities at University of Texas, Arlington. Timothy W. Luke is professor of political science at Virginia Tech. They co-authored a book There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech forthcoming in April 2008. -- Original Source: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Blog <a href="http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/02/valentines-day.html">http://rowmanblog.typepad.com/rowman/2008/02/valentines-day.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Tim Luke (twluke@vt.edu) Ben Agger (agger@uta.edu) Title A name given to the resource Valentine&#39;s Day in DeKalb: Two, Three, Many Virginia Techs? columbine copy-cat niu northern illinois university online gun purchase tuusula Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brent Jesiek Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ben Blanton Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-26 Description An account of the resource April 18th, 2007 by Ben The tragic massacre this week at Virginia Tech will be one of those events that you will remember how you first heard the news, where you were when you heard it, and what you were doing at the time. Like September 11, 2001, it will stick to the national memory for the rest of our lives. The shooting was the most violent act perpetrated on American soil since September 11. Coming almost eight years to the day after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre">Columbine shootings</a>, the VT murders are the latest and most violent example of the psychotic, suicidal student rampage. Like Columbine, the VT shooter, now identified as senior English major Cho Seung-hui, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3048467&amp;page=1">was calculated and cunning.</a> He chained potential exits shut to prevent possible escape routes. He was carrying multiple clips of ammo. He lined up students and shot them execution-style. On the Monday night newscasts, the networks went all-out, providing coverage with limited commercial interruption, and many reported directly from the campus. If you listened carefully you probably heard the most repeated phrase of the night: "This is the worst incident of gun violence in American history." This is true. But the story really has very little to do with guns. Did the anchors get hung up on "the worst incident of airplane hijacking" angle when covering September 11? The story has everything to do with a psychotic <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting/index.html">"loner"</a> who decided it would be better to take as many innocent people with him when he ended his own worthless life. Acts of mass murder always follow a predictable pattern. First, there is the period of shock. Depending on the magnitude of the incident, this phase can last for days, even weeks. Then there is the healing process: the dead are mourned and remembered, moments of silence are observed around the country. Finally, there is the "let&#39;s-not-let this-happen-again" phase. With September 11, this phase was complex and expensive. More airport security. "No-fly" lists. Federal air marshals. All of these steps have doubtless made our skies safer and have helped prevent a repeat attack. With shooting sprees, like Columbine and Virginia Tech, the final phase <a href="http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0402f.asp">revives the gun-control advocates</a> from their slumber. "See," they say, "look what guns do. They kill people. Guns are bad." Do guns kill people? Or, maybe, is it actually <em>people</em> that kill people? We could prevent another September 11 by banning all airplanes. That would solve the problem, right? We would all just have to drive cars or ride riverboats everywhere. Maybe bring back the horse and buggy. No biggie. Already the gun control lobby is licking their lips. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Cal.) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041700826.html">said in a statement</a> that she believed the killings at Virginia Tech would &#8220;re-ignite the dormant effort to pass commonsense gun regulations in this nation.&#8221; Of course they will. It&#39;s the preventative instinct. We could try to prevent another Virginia Tech by banning all handguns, but it&#39;s a lot easier to keep an airplane out of the air than it is to keep a gun out of someone&#39;s hand. Let&#39;s start with those evil airplanes first. Just as we learned on September 11, the issue is the attacker (in that case, radical Muslims, who we now know want to kill us all), not the weapon. If Cho Seung-hui didn&#39;t have access to a handgun, would that have stopped his homicidal plans? Doubtful. He would have just found another way to kill people�a homemade bomb, perhaps. Tragic as they are, school shootings will never disappear. We can&#39;t wage war on psychotic students like we can on radical Islam. The best way to stop future campus rampages is to allow students to carry handguns. 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