46 20 1884 https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/CalPoly II_61c239e180.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 2007-06-08 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 2007-06-08 10:34:16 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 Chad Newswander Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jason Ozaeta 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 Although many miles away, we at California Polytechnic State University feel the pain and sorrow for all of our fellow peers at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts and well-wishes were being added to a poster that we hope you will accept. This humble offering comes from fellow college students. 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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 Jason Ozaeta 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 Although many miles away, we at California Polytechnic State University feel the pain and sorrow for all of our fellow peers at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts and prayers were for you and your families during this candlelight vigil held on 18 April 2007. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jason Pettrey Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jason Pettrey Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-05 Description An account of the resource My wife and I went up to VT for a 4 day weekend, and to the German Club 115th anniversary. We toured campus and sat on the steps of Burruss Hall Saturday afternoon. We left Sunday afternoon, only to return to Houston - to find news of a much different place than we left. Absolutely awful. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource No words to describe... 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 Jason Wittman Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-09-25 Description An account of the resource By CoachJason - Posted on September 24th, 2007 ~Comments on the shootings at Santana High School in Santee, CA and Columbine High School and a call for zero tolerance for Teasing, Taunting, Ridicule and Bullying (TTRB) and the teaching of self-esteem.~ I originally wrote this article, just after the Santana High School shooting in Santee, CA in March 2001. I thought then and still do that the press concentrating on "guns in schools" and "bullying" stories are talking about symptoms (guns) and only part of the problem (bullying). We are now at the eight year anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School and now there is yet another and far worse shooting spree at the Virginia Tech University. From the press reports and the statements of school officials and concerned citizens, it doesn't seem like much has changed to change the chances of future catastrophes. It is the same old speculative explanations and remedies that have not worked to date. Once again, I offer my suggestions that are based on a lifetime of successfully working with marginalized kids. Please take note. When 15-year-old Andy Williams opened fire on the students of Santana High School in Santee, CA, on Monday, March 6th, he fulfilled the hidden desires and became an instant hero to millions of school kids across the country, as did Eric and Dylan, the Columbine High shooters, before him. If this statement horrifies you, please read on. By all the newspaper and TV accounts, Andy was a marginal, ridiculed, picked on, quite passive, "disaffected and unhappy boy, frequently taunted by his peers." He was called "country boy" and the king of all taunts, "gay." His classmates described him as "a twerp, skinny, and very quiet." He laughed off verbal and even physical abuse and never fought back. He was beginning to drink and use drugs to fit in with the crowd. This is much the same profile as the other kids who shot up their schools. It is also the profile of millions of other school kids. Sure, most of them would never do what he did. Fear of the consequences and moral, religious and ethical convictions would have mitigated such a solution. They would just continue to suffer in silence. But to most of them, even to their own horror, the thought, accompanied by a slight smile, of "Pay-back Time!" might have crossed their minds. In the Columbine High shootings, the press reported at the time that student said the shooters, Eric and Dylan, were continually harassed because of the perception that they were gay. They were regularly called "faggots." I was able to confirm that they were, in fact, under continual pressure for being gay in a conversation with a gay youth in Denver who knew them. Today, as for the last 35+ years, I work with teens and young adults, many of whom fit this profile. Probably why I relate so well with them is that at their age I, too, fit that profile. I was a scrawny, twerp, teased about big ears, large feet and being too smart. I would have probably been labeled "gay" if the word had been in use then. I laughed off their taunts and never fought back, per my Mother's instructions. Fortunately, I found the protective shelter of the high school drama club and its caring teacher/advisor and by spending lots of time with adults. The part of my high school experience and how I coped with it, that is most germane to this discussion is that, on many a night, I can remember going to sleep while fantasizing the torture and destruction of my tormentors. Fortunate for me and them, the social controls on kid growing up in the late 1950's, the total lack of support and role models for such action, no guns in our household and my own lack of confidence to even pull off a decent suicide made turning that fantasy into a reality an impossibility. Today, though, kids with these feelings and fantasies have the means, the role models, the support from some of the darker parts of pop culture, and the either active or tacit support of their peers. This is why an immediate preventative action plan is needed. After these random school shootings, the question is always why did the shooters kill innocent bystanders, people that were not their tormentors? The reason is that after years of being the recipients of teasing, taunting, ridicule and bullying (TTRB) the "Johnny, Billy ....and Coach Williams won't ever leave me alone" turns into "They won't ever leave me alone!" At that point, everyone becomes the target of retribution. Addressing bullying is not enough. Bullying's three cousins in harassment; Teasing, Taunting, and Ridicule, are different enough and just as much of a problem to the victims to be worthy of addressing on their own right. Ridicule, incidentally, is what teachers do. When I was in high school, it was usually the gym teachers. When teachers ridicule students it presents a negative role model and gives tacit permission for students to engage in TTRB themselves. Since the shootings in Santee, the usual suggestions for preventing another such tragedy have been offered in the media. As usual, they miss the mark now as they have in the past. The Santee school system had in place all of the most up to date solutions, they had an anti-violence program, adult monitors, all sorts of contingency plans, the works. Obviously, it wasn't enough. So what will work? I have two suggestions based on over 35 years of working with teenagers. The first one is easy to implement. The second is a long-term solution that will not only deal with this issue but will most probably greatly reduce teen use of alcohol and drugs. Suggestion #1 is to institute in every school, starting with pre-school, a policy of zero tolerance for teasing, taunting, ridicule and bullying (TTRB). In the workplace, today, a slightly off-color or sexual remark can legally be the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit. However, on school campuses teasing is dealt with, if it is dealt with at all, by attempts at fortifying the coping skills of the victim. I have no quarrel with those efforts and my second suggestion is probably the most effective way to do that, but they are secondary to stopping the aggression, period! "Boys will be boys" will no longer do. Kids can get kicked out of school under the zero gun policy just for pointing their finger like it is a gun at another student. Schools need to be at least as strict in dealing with those who verbally assault their fellow students. Principals, school officials, teachers, other responsible adults and fellow students that tolerate any degree of teasing, taunting and harassment or who join in or initiate the ridicule of a student must be held accountable. Zero tolerance for teasing, ridicule, taunting and bullying AND the failure to report or stop such activities, must become the enforced norm in all schools. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District in Orange County, Calif. has become the first school system to modify its zero-tolerance policy to include, "any gestures, comments, threats or actions...which cause or threaten to cause...bodily harm or personal degradation." Strict adoption of this kind of policy, nationwide, will go a long way to eliminating most campus violence including playground fistfights. Suggestion #2 is to teach self-esteem and self-love to all students starting in pre-school. My experience working with teenagers over the years has lead me to believe that lack of self-esteem and love is the root cause of most, if not all, of student problems including, under-achieving, substance abuse and addictions, acting out behaviors and especially campus violence. The bully, taunter and teaser does so in an effort to compensate for and to fix an emptiness inside by putting someone else down. People who love themselves have no need to oppress others. Kids, who do love themselves, have more resilience to the negativity of their peers. They also are less likely to get caught up in abusive relationships and will be more likely to seek out as partners, those who also have an excess of self-love to share. How to teach self-esteem and love is the subject of many books, including a future one from me. There is, though, a very effective, ultra-simple and best of all, no-cost solution for teaching self-esteem and self-love. Everyone that I have ever taught this to, from pre-schoolers to adults, has experienced huge improvements. This is one thing that assisted me the most build my self-esteem and love. Here is the description of how to teach it, followed by why I believe it is so effective: "From now on, every time you see your reflection in a mirror, you MUST smile AND say one nice thing about yourself. This nice thing is something you already know that is good about you. It can be a physical thing, but even better if it is an internal goodness, like being considerate or sharp witted. It is not an affirmation, which is something you would like to believe about yourself and say repetitiously until, hopefully, it sinks in. The other part of this exercise is that if you use the mirror to beat yourself up, you must say two nice things for every nasty one! This exercise works because it develops a new habit of saying nice things to oneself, which automatically leads of self-love. Most people with low self-love and esteem have a well-developed habit of beating themselves up verbally (and sometimes physically). Perfectionists are the masters of this, since they will always perform below their expectations. When this new habit of smiling and saying nice things to oneself replaces the old self-deprecating one, a new person emerges. A side benefit is that one can't smile and feel down at the same time, so these periodic, face-induced smiles can help break a downward emotional slide. An important side benefit of the zero tolerance policy for teasing, taunting, ridicule and bullying is a climate that is conducive for building self-esteem and self-love. This will be especially true if the policy includes the school staff. Public ridicule from teachers both sets a bad example and destroys self-esteem. Now is one of those windows of opportunities when school districts can really do something that will positively affect the quality of life on their school campuses. Immediately adopting my zero tolerance suggestion will so drastically change the campus atmosphere that the need for the picked-upons to engage in any form of retribution or "Pay-Back Time" will be virtually eliminated. Quick implementation of these suggestions will insure that no more lives are needlessly lost. About the Author: Jason Wittman, MPS is the Executive Director of Los Angeles Youth Supportive Services, Inc. ( <a href="http://www.la-youth.org/">http://www.la-youth.org </a> ) and has a private practice as a Life Coach specializing in working with parents of teenagers and young adults ( <a href="http://theparentscoach.com/">http://TheParentsCoach.com </a>) He can be reached at <a href="mailto:jason@theparentscoach.com">jason@theparentscoach.com </a> or 323-969-8726 -- Original Source: Progressive U <a href="http://www.progressiveu.org/023939-a-common-sense-proposal-for-preventing-revenge-pay-back-time-school-shootings">http://www.progressiveu.org/023939-a-common-sense-proposal-for-preventing-revenge-pay-back-time-school-shootings</a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License</a>. 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Capture Date 2007-05-21 08:32:01 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 Brent Jesiek Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jay Adams Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-21 Description An account of the resource Hello, Hokie Nation. Like many of you I have felt broken, helpless and lost since Monday, April 16 2007. I'm a graphic designer and I've been trying to think of what I could do to personally contribute in some way, shape or form. What I came up with were tribute desktops and posters that I hope will help keep our fallen Hokies alive in our memory and in our hearts. Kind regards - Jay Adams | VT HIDM 1996 | Sigma Nu Fraternity Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource We Are Virginia Tech desktop poster tribute https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/we_are_VT_letter_69827cecb0.pdf 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 2007-05-21 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 2007-05-21 08:34:12 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 Jay Adams Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-21 Description An account of the resource Hello, Hokie Nation. Like many of you I have felt broken, helpless and lost since Monday, April 16 2007. I'm a graphic designer and I've been trying to think of what I could do to personally contribute in some way, shape or form. What I came up with were tribute desktops and posters that I hope will help keep our fallen Hokies alive in our memory and in our hearts. Kind regards - Jay Adams | VT HIDM 1996 | Sigma Nu Fraternity Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource We Are Virginia Tech poster tribute 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 AA Hood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jay Carlson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-09-03 Description An account of the resource By: Jay Carlson / Junior electrical engineering and mathematics major Posted: 8/6/07 While watching the evening news this week, we heard brilliant accounts of heroism in response to the Interstate 35W bridge collapse into the Mississippi River. Many of these stories are reminiscent of the ones we heard years ago during the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It seems the citizens of this country can band together to accomplish so many things in times of national crisis and tragedy. Yet, most of America's tragedies play to a deaf ear. People have no qualms with stepping in the way of danger when catastrophe strikes, but no one seems to be around to help save people from the smaller tragedies. Sametta Heyward's babysitter had just canceled when Heyward was called in to start a double-shift at a county-run group home in South Carolina. Her two children, age 1 and 4, were left locked in her car for eight hours in the sweltering heat of that summer day. After finding her unconscious, barely alive children in her car, Heyward tried her hardest to revive them by biting and kicking them. Eventually she conceded to defeat. She quietly bathed and dressed them, then cached their bodies under the kitchen sink in garbage bags. We as a nation need to band together to stop disasters - both big and small. It's obvious the deaths of these two small children were easily preventable. At the bridge disaster, Gary Babineau was a lifeline to at least a dozen people he helped save. This woman had no lifeline - for a number of reasons. Experts expect psychological testing of Heyward to show she was mentally unstable at the time. Mental instability? This sounds gravely familiar to the April 16 shooting at Virginia Tech, where the mentally unstable Seung-Hi Cho killed 32 people and wounded 25 before ending his own life. Of course, Heyward wasn't just mentally unstable - she was desperate, and without a babysitter, she had no choice. As a near-socialist, I'm an advocate for universality of health care, which would include mental counseling. Nevertheless, as citizens, we need to act in our communities and undertake the challenge of weaving a tighter bond among ourselves. A paramount study last year from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago compared figures from 1985 to modern-day findings, and concluded that Americans have fewer close friends and, even more important, fewer connections with other community members. Camaraderie doesn't present itself in the wake of disaster anymore than it does in our every day lives, so long as we allow it to. Where was Heyward's neighbor down the street or her friend across the block? Who was around to detect the early signs of mental illness? Obviously, even the best denizen can't do it all - and that's where we need government help. This woman shouldn't have had to work eight hour shifts, because we ought to have a living wage set. We should have free daycare of which low-income, single moms can take advantage. We should have free health care - including psychiatric therapy - that would help people cope with problems they're experiencing. But in the end, no amount of government programs can do the same for someone as a Johnny-on-the-spot do-gooder. -- Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/08/06/Opinion/Carlson.Camaraderie.Willingness.To.Help.As.Necessary.In.Everyday.Life.As.In.Time-2929404.shtml>Daily Nebraskan - August 6, 2007</a> Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Daily Nebraskan Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Josh Swartzlander <jdwriter19@yahoo.com> Title A name given to the resource CARLSON: Camaraderie, willingness to help as necessary in everyday life as in times of tragedy university of nebraska Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. A year ago was the sound â€“ the piercing shriek that split the silence. In the midst of its stunning noise, even though we were far from its source that day, we stood still, mouths agape and minds blank â€“ living for unimaginable lifetimes within the scream all around. Waiting to hear. Today is the first of many echoes. No matter what the emotion of today, it will be diminished...much diminished from the original. But the force of the scream was great, and the return waves will echo back across the valleys with unerring accuracy and terrific power. The echoes will come today, and they will come again in years not yet imagined. They will wash over the gray stones forever, but with less vigor each time. Many stones were broken by the shriek. Some of the stones there may even be broken from the force of the echo, but some of them will be worn smooth from the washing. Look to the smooth stones for strength. Contribution Form The set of elements containing metadata from the Contribution form. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jay Pittman Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jay Pittman Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You are contributing your stories and/or files to The April 16 Archive, which is developing a permanent digital record of the events surrounding the tragedy on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16, 2007. Your participation in this project will allow future researchers, and people such as yourself, to gain a greater understanding of these events and the responses to them. Title A name given to the resource A year later (written on the first anniversary by an Alum) echoes 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 Jean-Lou Chameau Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-14 Description An account of the resource By Jean-Lou Chameau, Institute President Thursday, April 19, 2007 We live in a time when tragedies occur almost daily in the world. They trouble us; however, many of them seem so distant that they do not affect us deeply, although they should. The tragedy experienced yesterday on the Virginia Tech campus is one that is affecting all of us more deeply because it took place in a community we understand and cherish. Violence of young people against young people is tragic--impossible to truly comprehend, but especially shocking in a university environment. The university years provide a unique period in the lives of young people, a period when they can learn, experience, and interact with others in freedom and safety. Our thoughts today should be with the Virginia Tech community, and especially with the families of the victims. We grieve for them. As we learn to adjust to this event, our commitment and energy should remain focused on assuring that universities like Virginia Tech and Caltech remain safe, free environments where young people can prepare themselves for life. -- Original Source: <a href="http://tech.caltech.edu/TECH/04_19_2007/article14.html"> The California Daily - April 19, 2007</a> Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The California Daily Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Permissions: Marissa Cevallos <tech@caltech.edu> editor-in-chief, The California Daily Title A name given to the resource Caltech grieves for VA Tech student victims caltech campus response letter from president 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 Jeff Adair / The MetroWest Daily News Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-01 Description An account of the resource By Jeff Adair/Daily News columnist GHS Fri Apr 20, 2007, 12:19 AM EDT The responses seemed strange. A legislator in Washington, a student in Oklahoma, an insurance company owner in San Diego, and a government official and many others a continent away. This week, all felt the need to apologize. But they didn't do anything wrong, so why apologize? They all happen to be of Korean ancestry, like the Virginia Tech gunman, Cho Seung-Hui. "It hurts me deeply," Paull Shin, an orphan adopted by an American after the Korean War, and now a state senator in Washington, told his colleagues Wednesday. "This is not the way to pay back the blessings we received." "As a people, we take a certain amount of shame even though we didn't know this guy," said a co-organizer of a candlelight vigil in San Diego. "I think there's a lot of closed-minded people and people would automatically associate his actions with his race," Naht Nguyen, an Oklahoma City Community College student told the school newspaper. It seemed strange. Then of course, it's not new. I'm sure right after the Oklahoma City bombing, when initial reports pointed to a Middle Eastern man, those of that ancestry felt the same. I'm sure right after 9-11, Arab-Americans felt society was blaming them. Strange, isn't it? Not really. Not for those of us so-called minorities. The D.C. sniper attacks and the Carol Dimaiti Stuart murder in 1989 (police were looking for a black man, but later discovered her husband was the culprit) are two examples that stand in my mind. The minute the crimes hit the media, I said to myself, "I hope it's not a black man." Maybe we're paranoid. "Everyone's looking at us," we say. Maybe we grow tired of the stereotypes. We don't want to hear the critical, often wrong analysis of our communities. Maybe we see a double standard, as Mercury News writer L.A. Chung put it in a column this week, "I can't say I know a single white male who read about Jeffrey Dahmer's serial killing and thought, 'Oh, no, another white guy' - FBI criminal personality profiles notwithstanding." Dr. Kermit Crawford, a clinical psychologist and professor, told me that as recently as January, he felt the same way, crossing his fingers, hoping that the fatal stabbing at Lincoln-Sudbury High was not committed by a black person. The director of the Center for Multicultural Health at Boston University, Crawford said such feelings are rational in the sense that we all take ownership for our culture, whether we want to or not. That's not to say people should feel guilty, he said. He said in discussions with many people the past few days, including some who are Korean, it seems there's more of a collective fear, than collective guilt. "The greater concern is that there might be retaliation," he said. "There's a fear of them being blamed because they are Korean or Asian." The information from the Virginia Tech case points to Cho Seung-Hui as a very disturbed student, to put it mildly. Therefore, in my opinion every right thinking person should agree with Crawford that race had nothing to do with it. "Some people are sick," he said. "Some are just evil." Still, the apologies are made. According to Time.com, South Korea's Ambassador to the U.S., Lee Tae Shik, pledged to fast for 32 days to show his sorrow. That seems strange. Doesn't it? Jeff Adair is a Daily News writer and editor. He can be reached at jadair@cnc.com. -- Original Source: Framingham, MA - The MetroWest Daily News <a href="http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinions/x416900269">http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinions/x416900269</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5</a>. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Title A name given to the resource Adair: Taking the VT massacre personally framingham korean massachusetts 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 Jeff Fecke Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-19 Description An account of the resource April 23, 2007 Filed under: Feminism, Minnesota Monitor, Virginia Tech â€” Jeff Fecke @ 12:21 pm It is human nature to try to figure out why bad things happen. Long ago, we blamed natural disasters on the capriciousness of the gods. The flood was caused by Poseidon's wrath, the storm by Thor's fury. Gifts were given to the gods, sacrifices of fruit, of animals, even of people, in order to placate them and turn their anger into love for their human charges. Today most of us (Pat Robertson excepted) reject the notion that bad things happen because of an angry and vengeful God. And yet, when tragedy strikes, we still seek to find the pattern underlying the madness, our ultimate failing that led to our punishment by...well, we're never quite sure, but we're sure we're being punished. After Cho Seung-hui opened fire on his classmates in Blacksburg, Va., it was only natural for us to ask why. The primary answer â€” that he was a deeply troubled, possibly schizophrenic and certainly psychotic man who was operating outside the bounds of normal society â€” is unsatisfying and seems to beg more questions than it answers. And so some writers have seized on an explanation that has a mythic history as rich and powerful as any blameworthy figure in human lore: It's the women's fault. Not all women, of course, but specifically feminists. These horrid people have, we are told, upset the natural order. They have made women more like men, causing them to demand for themselves the same privileges and prerogatives that men alone have traditionally enjoyed. At the same time, they have demanded that men stop behaving like louts, thus feminizing them, making them more female, robbing them of their manly virtue. National Review columnist John Derbyshire started the drumbeat by arguing that all of the students should have been armed, the better to kill the shooter. But that wasn't his main point. "Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals," he wrote, "why didn't anyone rush the guy? It's not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns, for goodness' sake â€” one of them reportedly a .22." Nathan Blake, a writer for the weblog Human Events caught Derbyshire's meaning and amplified it. "Something is clearly wrong with the men in our culture. Among the first rules of manliness are fighting bad guys and protecting others: in a word, courage. And not a one of the healthy young fellows in the classrooms seems to have done that." Now, you may think that blaming students for not rushing a man with two semi-automatic handguns is, to put it nicely, insane. Especially since there were more than a few examples of bravery that day, from the resident adviser who gave his life trying to protect the first victim of the shooting to the students who held the door shut with their feet while Cho fired away above them. But of course, one should never let facts get in the way of a good session of blaming women. Besides, it wasn't just the men hand-wringing about those wimpy men; there were also women hand-wringing about those tough women. Sarah Baxter, writing for the Sunday Times of London, fingered female sexual promiscuity as the reason that Cho Seng-hui went on his rampage, going so far as to quote long-time scold Camile Paglia in her argument. "The pervasive hook-up culture at college," wrote Baxter, "where girls are prepared to sleep with boys they barely know or fancy, can be a source of seething resentment and alienation for those who are left out. "'Young women now seem to want to behave like men and have sex without commitment. The signals they are giving are very confusing, and rage and humiliation build up in boys who are spurned again and again' [said Paglia]." As the Kinks once said, it's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world. And that's when the gods get angry. The scolds, of course, never really explain why it is that "young women behaving like men" is confusing and enraging â€” or at least, why young women behaving like men is worse than young men behaving like men. They don't have to bother. We all know that good girls don't, and cool boys do-the message is driven into us, all of us, from the moment we become aware of what sex might be. If anything exacerbated the insanity of Cho Seung-hui, it was this message â€” the message that if he was worthy, he should be having sex, and lots of it. That if he was worthy, women would and should be lining up for him â€” but not the pure and chaste ones. Normal people learn, at some point, that this message doesn't make a lot of sense; that sex, while entertaining, is neither the best nor the most important measure of human worth and human happiness. We learn that whether you're having sex or not is a truly meaningless measure of your worth as a human being â€” whether you're a good girl who is, or a cool boy who isn't. But Cho Seung-hui wasn't equipped to deal with this message, this drumbeat that he was a failure because he wasn't successful with women. And so he turned his rage to violence, first stalking women, then ultimately attacking them. That his rage reached a violent crescendo that included men as well was unsurprising, for it wasn't women he hated, or men â€” it was himself. The killer internalized the messages of what men are "supposed" to be, and when he could not measure up in his mind to that standard, he did the only thing he could think to do â€” he became ultra-violent, violence being another acceptable proof of manliness. It wasn't a shortage of manliness that was the problem last Monday, it was a surfeit. And so we come to find that the fault, if there was fault that we can assigned, lay not at the feet of the women who rejected a stalker, nor at feminists who want people to have rough equality, nor at men and women who faced a horrific massacre and did not all fight back against nigh-impossible odds. If there was a fault, it was that we as a society continue to try to tell people what they're supposed to be, rather than letting them determine that for themselves. That's not as satisfying as blaming women, nor as simple as blaming victims. But it's the truth, and we do ourselves and the dead no favor by pretending otherwise. (Cross-posted from <a target="_blank" href="http://minnesotamonitor.com/editDiary.do?diaryId=1650">MinMon</a>) -- Original Source: Blog of the Moderate Left <a href="http://moderateleft.com/?p=3324">http://moderateleft.com/?p=3324</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States Title A name given to the resource No Shortage of Manliness blog cho commentary feminism manliness masculinity 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 Jeff Gilbride Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-04-19 Description An account of the resource By Jeff Gilbride/Daily News staff Daily News Tribune Posted Apr 15, 2008 @ 12:43 AM WALTHAM â€” A year ago Wednesday, Kalynn Cook's childhood friend was killed when Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus. To mark the first anniversary and to remember her friend, Erin Peterson, the Brandeis freshman from Sterling, Va., planned a candlelight vigil for tomorrow night. "I'm from northern Virginia and I came up here for school. When it got to be April I knew that the one-year anniversary would be coming up. I looked at the Brandeis calendar of events and I noticed there wasn't anything scheduled," she said. "I decided to talk to some of my friends who happen to be involved in student activism. They suggested I host an event myself." Cook said she contacted the student organization Democracy for America, which helped organize the event. Starting at 7 p.m. tomorrow, students will read a biography of each person killed in the massacre, hold a prayer service and conduct an open forum to discuss the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. Cho cut down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students. The bloodbath ended with the gunman committing suicide. Thirty-two individual flames will be lit, one for each of the victims. "(Democracy for America) handles activism. I went to one of their meetings and they decided to sponsor me. I got some materials from them and I got some advice," she said. "I spoke to Father Walter Cuenin (a Brandeis chaplain) and he's going to be speaking at the vigil ... it doesn't just affect the Virginia Tech community, but college communities all over the nation." Since the killings, Brandeis University officials adopted a number of precautionary measures to ensure the safety of students. "Certainly Virginia Tech marked a very significant turning point for us wanting to look for as many measures to help best inform people on campus on what to do in the event of an emergency," said Brandeis spokesman Dennis Nealon "It's all a work in progress to address emergency warning issues." Nealon said Brandeis officials instituted a number of precautionary communication measures under what is now referred to as the Brandeis Emergency Notification System. One step was to place towers around campus that serve as warning sirens in case of an emergency. "The intention of the sirens is to tell people to go indoors and to proceed to get whatever information they need about what the particular emergency is," Nealon said. "Another step was that every land (line) phone on campus was equipped with a small video screen." Nealon said the video screens can display a written notice or audible message in case of an emergency. "We'll inform people that an emergency situation has developed and we'll tell them what steps to take," he said. "We also have an 80 percent voluntary response from students to our initiative to gather as many cell phone numbers as we could. The university now can send text messages directly to people's cell phones." Bentley College in Waltham also uses a similar campus alert system, through a program called "Connect-Ed." Bentley spokeswoman Michelle Walsh said the school collected cell phone numbers from almost the entire college community to send out a text message or voice mail message in case of an emergency. Walsh said Bentley College had taken most of these precautionary measures before the Virginia Tech massacre. He said the incident caused campus officials to review existing communications and security. Bentley College has a crisis planning team comprised of staff and students that meets twice a month. The team holds "tabletop drills," in which they map out scenarios of potential emergencies and discuss how to deal with them. "The crisis planning team meets twice a month and has been well before the Virginia Tech tragedy. Following the tragedy was a review of what would happen if we had an equivalent situation," Walsh said. "I think the most important thing is our crisis planning team works closely with the campus police ... you learn from every school (tragedy). If a school meets regularly, the better prepared they are, no matter what the situation." Unlike their counterparts at Bentley, Brandeis University Police officers are unarmed, a practice that is expected to change this summer. Last year, Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz announced he accepted a recommendation of an eight-member university firearms panel to equip Brandeis Police with guns. "An advisory committee (was) formed initially of faculty and students to look at the issue in light of the Virginia Tech tragedy," Nealon said. "That committee gave a yes-vote to the president (that the police should be armed)." Nealon said the tragedy reignited the topic of arming Brandeis Police, which was discussed randomly in previous years. "The Virginia Tech tragedy did spur that discussion again," Nealon said. "About 20 officers have been undergoing field and psychological training. ... They are all being certified at the state police academy in Massachusetts." 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jeff Sigmon Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jeff Sigmon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-02 Description An account of the resource Picture of Upward Soccer players & parents signing cards to send to VA Tech students on April 21, 2007. VA Tech Memorial is located behind New Hanover Church at 10058 Chamberlayne Road in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Upward Soccer Photo cool spring church mechanicsville memorial new hanover church upward soccer 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 Jeff Sigmon Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jeff Sigmon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-02 Description An account of the resource Go to: <a href="http://www.coolspring.org/upward2007_devotional_5.asp">http://www.coolspring.org/upward2007_devotional_5.asp</a> For full set of photos and story. On April 21st, in support of those who have suffered from the tragedy at Virginia Tech, Upward Soccer players, parents, and guests were invited to sign a card and write a note to Virginia Tech. A memorial was also created, honoring the 32 individuals who lost their lives, by placing their photographs on crosses under the United States' and Virginia Tech's flags. Reflect on the photographs below, and read the words of New Hanover Presbyterian Church's Co-Pastor Shane Roberson: This week began with the shocking and horrifying news of the tragedy at Virginia Tech. As we heard over the media airwaves of the devastating death toll mounting due to one person's actions, we were all dismayed and in shock. Tragedies like this lead us to a place of bewilderment and the questions arise. Why would someone do something like this so horrible and devastating? Why did so many innocent people lose their lives for no reason? Why would God allow this? Why did this happen? We may never know the answers to some of these questions, but I do want to share a couple of truths about God that we can hold firmly to in the midst of this tragedy. Each one of us is plagued with a condition called sin. The Bible says, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:23- 24). Sin causes us to do things that are not right, to live in darkness, to hurt people, and to be destructive. We're all in the same boat, but we don't have to be left there. We may never know what caused this individual to go on a shooting rampage throughout the campus and take innocent lives. There will be a lot of speculation and theories posited in the weeks to come. Actions like these are rooted in our sinfulness as people. Sin, and the actions that accompany sin, does not have to have the final say in our lives. God came up with a solution for our sin. He sent His Son Jesus Christ to pay for our sins. 1 Peter 3:18 says, "For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." Jesus Christ, God's one and only Son, paid the price for our sins when He went to the cross. That gives us hope and gives us life. He paid the price for our sin, from the horrible actions to the smallest unseen offenses. God has the final say in each one of our lives. Here is the final Truth I want to leave with you. God is supreme in His wisdom, and He can make something good of a horrible tragedy such as this. Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Notice the passage says, "in all things." Only God can take a horrible tragedy and bring good out of it. Look at some of the stories coming out of 9/11. Only God could cause such good. He takes evil acts caused by the choices of men and creates good out of those acts. Look no further than the cross and what God accomplished at Easter. Because of our sinfulness, people beat Jesus and put Him to death, but God had the final say in that tragedy. In fact, that tragedy was our saving grace. We may never know all the answers to the questions that surface, but we can rest assured we have a loving God who went to all lengths to make sure that sin does not have to have the final say in our life. Just look at the empty cross and the empty tomb to show that God can make good things come out of tragedies. We continue to pray for all the families, students, faculty, staff and loved ones affected by this horrible tragedy. Please join with us in praying for all those impacted. In Christ, Shane Roberson Co-Pastor New Hanover Presbyterian Church Lord, right now we acknowledge You, and we acknowledge Your presence and Your sovereignty. Lord, we lift up Virginia Tech and the people affected by the evil that has taken place on the campus. We pray that Your Spirit be with them. We pray that Your loving arms be wrapped around them and comfort them in this tragic time. We pray for families, neighbors, and friends. We pray for staff, professors, and administrators. Lord, we pray for people. We pray for humanity. We pray that this event will not cause people to turn from You but it will cause a nation to run to You like they have never run before. We pray for increased faith. We pray for spiritual growth. We pray for Christian fellowship and salvation of souls. We pray that your hand will move mightily over Blacksburg, VA and over this nation. Touch souls right now and comfort broken hearts. Forgive us for our sins, Father. In Your Son Jesus Christ name we pray. Amen. "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. " - 2 Chronicles 7:14-15 Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Upward Soccer Memorial cool spring church mechanicsville new hanover church upward soccer 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 Jeff Vrabel Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-31 Description An account of the resource Jeff Vrabel / GateHouse Media Thu Apr 19, 2007, 05:01 PM CDT BLACKSBURG, VA - Regular readers of this column - and hello to all three of you - know that, when appropriate, partially appropriate, tangentially connected or carries the very slight possibility of being funny to someone somewhere, I have no problem resorting to remarks of questionable taste. Sometimes, if I can and my editors agree, I can slip a colorful adjective in there or two. When it comes to matters of obscenity and the maintenance of high culture, a conservative prude I am not. But something about being unable to avoid pictures of Cho Seung-Hui pointing a gun at me Thursday was more nauseatingly loathsome than I might have even expected. People with lengthier titles and livelier paychecks than mine will by now have spent hours and days debating the judiciousness of using the pictures of a killer doing what he did when he executed more than 30 people on Monday, pointing the gun at me, at you, at himself, at whatever purported demons he'd invented. He did so on purpose, doing it with the intent to enrage after his death. With astonishing clarity, Cho's package to NBC News proved, over all else, that this was not a random bout of insanity, a snap. This was as premeditated a rampage as one could enact; one wouldn't be surprised if investigators soon discover a map and a set of blueprints. I'm not here to debate the news value, and were I sitting in the newsroom at NBC News when that package came in, I - nor any of you - have any idea how I would have reacted. But it feels an awful, awful lot like serving a black-hearted killer a drink at the bar and asking if he'd like to keep the bottle for free. This is what he wanted. This is what he's getting. There wasn't much chance that anything else would happen, really. Hopefully, at least some percentage of the country's 6 million pundits-posing-as-journalists will at least begin addressing the question of how much of the decision to run these photos was fueled by news judgment and how much was fueled by the media's increasingly desperate desire to keep up. By Tuesday, CNN had a bumper - not a segment, not a commercial, but one of those four-second clips that leads viewers into and out of ads - that flashed the phrase "CAMPUS SHOOTING" no fewer than eight times. Eight times! The font changed, got bigger, jumped around the screen, and finally settled front and center in bold type, where even if you were just flipping by or passing it at the airport, you could stop and wonder what's next. (Hilariously, the CNN outlet I was watching at the time punctuated its Cho coverage with a 90-second ad for a gun range.) At this point, calls for judiciousness will fall on deaf ears; as the moment for pure sympathy and horror seems to have already passed - well, it is Friday - now we can get on with the ransacking of grief, the creation of logos and theme music and the mortifying - and, for the most part, unavoidable - capitulation to the wishes of a killer. Jeff Vrabel can be reached at www.jeffvrabel.com -- Original Source: <a href="http://www.chicagosuburbannews.com/stcharles/opinions/x1721527709">http://www.chicagosuburbannews.com/stcharles/opinions/x1721527709</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/</a>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 </a>. 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This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-13 23:47:25 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 Sara Hood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jenna Nierstedt Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-13 Description An account of the resource Candelight vigil marks one week after shootings By: Jenna Nierstedt Posted: 4/24/07 Though many Boston University community members gathered last week at a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings, a few students were not ready to let the flames extinguish just yet. Late last week, those students organized another vigil for yesterday evening, in which about 50 students and staff came together again for prayer and the chance to express their emotions on Marsh Plaza. Though the winds were too strong for most of the candles to remain lit, Rheanne Wirkkala, who helped organize the vigil, stood on the steps of Marsh Chapel and said the fact that the community had gathered again was just as meaningful as each candle burning. "It's easy Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday when you constantly see it in the news to keep remembering, but we hope that people will remember a week later and a month later and a year later," the College of Arts and Sciences junior said afterward. The crowd huddled together to try to block the wind from blowing out candles, as Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore jokingly asked Marsh Chapel dean Robert Hill to direct a prayer to calm the wind. "Maybe in some way, I'd like to hope and think that the wind is moving down south to the good folks in Virginia, and maybe they'll hear our songs, smell the lit candle and know that we are thinking about them," Elmore said afterward. Hill led a prayer calling for BU to "withstand what we can't understand" and "to offer ourselves for one another." "How do we do something here that can resonate somewhere else," Elmore said, "and how do we also send a strong message to the world -- that we do matter and that we think other people matter?" CAS junior Caitlyn Hessell expressed her feelings through a song she sang while playing guitar on the Marsh steps. "Just seeing that some of the victims had everything taken away from them, it was just more intense knowing that I [have] this whole life ahead of me after graduation and that some of them didn't," Hessell said. "When things are really bad and tragic, I think that people tend to really shine and be there for one another," she continued. "I think that the biggest thing is to talk to one another, both in reflection and just in general, so that that kind of thing doesn't have to happen," Wirkkala said, "so that people on campus don't feel alienated and people do feel like they are part of a community." Hill encouraged those who came to the vigil to sign a poster, where people could share their thoughts with the Virginia Tech community. The board has been receiving signatures for five days, and BU will send it to the Blacksburg, Va. campus within the next few days. "The response of the community shows that Boston University continues to be a personal and caring environment," Hill said. "We try to respond with a sense of purpose and meaning." -- Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/04/24/News/Bu.Community.Honors.Va.Tech-2876853.shtml> The Daily Free Press - April 24, 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 BU community honors Va. Tech candlelight vigil memorials vigil boston university 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 Jenni Scolese Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jenni Scolese Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-04-28 Description An account of the resource It was a tragic day for everyone the day of the shootings on Virginia Tech. I remember coming home and being told that something was going on at Tech. I got worried because I knew so many people who were going there. I had been the campus a number of times because of track and when they were showing the locations of where the shooting took place I recognized it and almost felt as if I was there. I did not know anyone that was hurt or killed but many of them had lived in the area I grew up in. It was a very emotional day and I did not know what to think. I was hardly able to keep my eyes off of the TV and hearing that the death toll was going up I had to stop. I will admit I was afraid that someone I knew would come up but fortunately they did not. I felt for all the families and friends of the victims and even I find it hard to forgive the shooter but I know that we are all strong and will be able to. My heart and prayers go out to the VT community. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource VT 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 Jennie Tal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-28 Description An account of the resource By: Jennie Tal (May 2) Amanda Blevins is just like any other high school senior. She's excited about getting away from home, meeting new people and just enjoying her college experience. But Blevins won't be just any other college freshman. This fall, the Nelson County native will proudly enroll at Virginia Tech, a university that is still recovering from the most devastating school shooting in modern U.S. history. "I'm not going to give up just because something bad happened," Blevins said. "I figure that if it happened there once, it's not really likely to happen again." Only five students have declined Tech's offer of admissions as a direct result of the shootings that happened on Tech's campus on April 16, said Mark Owczarski, director of news and information for the university. Yesterday was the deadline for students to make their admissions decisions. Even though so few students have openly declined admission because of the shootings, it will be difficult to know exactly how the events of April 16 affected prospective students, said Amy Widner, the public relations coordinator for undergraduate admissions. Usually, students who decline an offer of admission do not provide an explanation, Owczarski said. But this year, hundreds of students declining Tech's offer have telephoned to explain that they did not make their decision based on the shootings. Harrison Mohn, a senior at Fort Defiance High School in Augusta County still plans to come to Tech and major in biology. He hopes to study medicine one day. Mohn chose to apply early decision to Tech and said he didn't think about going anywhere else. He liked the school because it is big, has a pretty campus and is in state. He said he's always wanted to attend Tech and that recent events could not have changed his feelings about the school. "I'm not really worried about it at all," Mohn said. "I think it could have happened anywhere. It's not something that Tech did wrong." Since the shootings, the admissions office has tried to stay in touch with prospective students. Mohn said he received an email from the university explaining that everyone there is doing the best they can to make Tech a safe place. "Basically, it said they were hoping I was still considering going [to Tech] and that I haven't changed my decision," Mohn said. Blevins received two such messages. Neither changed their minds. Widner explained that every year admissions sends emails to students a few weeks before the deadline, reminding students that they need to contact the university by May 1. This year, the email included an acknowledgement of the shootings on campus. "It was something to acknowledge the fact that we knew that the whole world was talking about what happened," Widner said. "We wanted to communicate with them specifically and let them know that we were mourning but moving forward and if there were any questions to let us know." Though Blevins didn't contact the university, she said she wonders if security on campus will be increased. She wants to be safe but doesn't want to have to walk through metal detectors to go to class. Stafford High School senior Marie Williams applied to Tech early decision for architecture and said she is still excited to start school in the fall - maybe even more now. Owczarski said no students who had already paid the $400 deposit - including those admitted during the early decision process - asked to withdraw their acceptances. "I think it's great how the student body pulled together after the tragedy, and I know that while everyone is going through a very tough time right now, they will get through it," Williams said. -- Original Source: <a href=http://www.biglicku.com/blu/Stories/StoryDisplayPage.aspx?Title=Class%20of%202011%20still%20strong%20after%20shootings&ID=282> Big Lick U - May 12, 2007</a> Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Big Lick U Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Chris Winston <Chris.Winston@biglicku.com> Title A name given to the resource Class of 2011 still strong after shootings big lick u student reactions vt class of 2011 https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/working_quilt_e6a6fdcb8d.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 Jennifer Huband Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jennifer Huband Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-04-10 Description An account of the resource This quilt was made by Alpha Phi Omega Brothers across the U.S. for the Zeta Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Omega at Virginia Tech. We are very grateful for this contribution and it means a lot to our chapter to have it. Zeta Beta Brothers are currently holding the quilt. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Donated Quilt to Alpha Phi Omeg alpha phi omega service apo