28 20 1884 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 Galen Moore / The Milford Daily News staff Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource By Galen Moore/Daily News staff GHS Fri Apr 20, 2007, 12:55 AM EDT WESTBOROUGH - Andrew Dyche is safe, but for 30 terrifying minutes Monday his mother, Amy Belue, didn&#39;t know it. Dyche, a 2003 graduate of Westborough High School, will graduate from Virginia Tech in June. He was at home in his off-campus apartment the morning fellow student Cho Seung-Hui shot 32 people, then turned a gun on himself. On Monday, after learning of the killings from a co-worker over the Internet, it took Belue, who now lives in Colorado, 30 minutes of trying and re-trying jammed telephone circuits to reach her son. When they got through, the campus was already locked down, he told her. Dyche left Blacksburg, Va., on Wednesday to stay with high school friends at the University of Connecticut. The atmosphere at Virginia Tech, where both his mother and father also went to school, was too much to bear, he said. "Our campus is still swarmed with reporters, news media and cops," he said. "No one&#39;s really leaving their apartments." The university canceled classes for the week. Dyche, who first learned of the shootings when his roommate called him from a bus that had been stopped, didn&#39;t know any of the students who were killed or injured Monday. For that, he feels lucky. The week&#39;s events came as a shock, but they won&#39;t change his opinion of the school, he said. When he goes back, he will feel as safe as he could hope to feel anywhere, he said. Belue, who moved with her husband, Dyche&#39;s stepfather, to Colorado in 2004, said she still feels a strong bond with the college she attended 30 years ago. "We just love the community down there," she said. "It&#39;s so sad this is a part of the history now." Dyche said though he knows there will be questions, he hopes students won&#39;t turn to blaming authorities for what happened. "It&#39;s kind of difficult that (Cho) took his own life, because now it feels like we need to shift the blame somewhere else," Dyche said. "He&#39;s gone and you can&#39;t take it out on him." (Galen Moore can be reached at 508-490-7453 or gmoore@cnc.com.) -- Original Source: Milford, MA - The Milford Daily News <a href="http://www.milforddailynews.com/homepage/x663839027">http://www.milforddailynews.com/homepage/x663839027</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0</a>. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Title A name given to the resource Westborough grad, a Virginia Tech student, is safe alumni parents reaction student 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 Otto Wahl Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource posted 5.01.07 <a href="http://www.miwatch.org/about.htm#Wahl">Otto Wahl, Ph.D.</a>, University of Hartford The tragic death of 33 students at Virginia Tech has shocked and saddened us all. Given the mental health aspects of the situation, it is not surprising that there has been much in the coverage about mental illnesses and their treatment. Unfortunately, the articles and editorials that followed the shootings have often been troubling in what they convey to the public about mental illnesses and mental health interventions. One troubling aspect of the media coverage has been the frequent vilification and dehumanization of the troubled young man who perpetrated the killings. Appropriately sympathetic descriptions of the background and lives of the "32" victims were widespread, and such descriptions helped us to better appreciate the tragedy on a more personal level. However, descriptions of the 33rd person who died in the tragedy, Cho Seung-Hui, focused almost exclusively on his pathology, his anger, and his menacing manner. Some media sources characterized Cho as motivated by "meanness;" others labeled him as a "fiend," a "psychopath," or "just plain "evil." Such coverage ignored the fact that Cho&#39;s death—and much of his life—was also a tragedy. His alienation, isolation, anger, and ultimate suicide are probably not the life goals he set out for himself. Much of the media coverage did discuss Cho&#39;s mental health, but mostly without notable empathy for his difficulties. Related is the mistaken implication in coverage of Cho&#39;s actions that mental illness and violence are synonymous. The widespread images of Cho brandishing weapons epitomized the already prevalent public image of the "menacing madman," and that image was underscored further by the fear-inducing labels Cho was given in many media accounts, such as "maniac" and "psycho" and worse. Likewise, the repeated discussions of the need to protect the college community—and the larger community—from such individuals served to reinforce unwarranted public fears of people with mental illnesses. The vast majority of people with mental illnesses, including severe mental illnesses, are neither violent nor criminal. The vast majority of students on campus who are living with mental illnesses are not threatening others, but working and studying to make better lives for themselves. I saw little discussion of this in media coverage. The events at Virginia Tech were truly horrendous. The media, like the public, searched to make sense of the tragedy and to find clues as to how future tragedies could be prevented. However, there was a tendency to focus on mental illness as the sole or primary explanation for the horrific outcome at Virginia Tech. Many reporters and even mental health professionals seemed to commit what social scientists have dubbed the "fundamental attribution error." This term refers to our tendency to attribute the actions of others, particularly unacceptable actions, to their inner, psychological attributes and to neglect potential situational influences. If we succumb to this error and focus mainly on the possible internal causes of behavior, the mental health of Cho Seung-Hui in this case, we may overlook other potential contributors to the event and, thus, other potential and important avenues for prevention. Often overlooked, then, were questions about how we engage or do not engage students on our college campuses or how we do or do not integrate diverse students to better create a sense of community, questions about what gaps in understanding and education about cultural differences might have contributed to Cho&#39;s apparent isolation and to the ultimate outcome, and questions about the extent to which stigma and negative attitudes about mental health problems could have contributed to Cho&#39;s apparent reluctance to accept counseling assistance despite the recommendations of Virginia Tech faculty. Instead of looking at the factors above, many media reports implied—directly or indirectly—that the major preventive solution is the lessening of restrictions on involuntary hospitalization. After horrific events like the Virginia Tech deaths, it is easy to forget that the current criteria for involuntary psychiatric commitment result from a long history of indiscriminate and abusive use of forced hospitalization and from a belated recognition that the individual civil rights of people with mental illnesses need protection. Just as the tragic events of 9/11 should not have allowed us to dismantle the basic civil liberties on which our country is founded, a tragic event like Virginia Tech should not serve as justification for diminishing the hard won civil protections of the millions of people with mental illnesses. But it may, and some of the news coverage is suggesting that it should. Also, it is not clear that involuntary commitment for Cho would have been the appropriate solution. Coerced treatment may have poorer long term outcomes than voluntary treatment if it creates trauma and fuels antagonism and poorer treatment compliance. For a person like Cho, who already felt persecuted and angry, this may have been likely. So hospitalization might have only postponed the tragic outcome. Outpatient treatment may have had a better chance of succeeding in helping Cho and preventing the lethal outcome. In hindsight, we know it was not successful, but we do not know that involuntary hospitalization would have had more success. The events at Virginia Tech have led to calls for greater security on campuses and for a better ability of campus authorities to exclude people with serious mental illnesses from the campus. Again, this represents a troubling inclination to further restrict the rights and opportunities of people living with mental illnesses. Easier hospitalization and campus restrictions are not what is needed for preventing tragedies such as the one at Virginia Tech. Instead, we need better training of service providers to deal with individuals who are reluctant to accept treatment, and therapeutic alternatives that are more attractive, less aversive, and better funded. We also need reduced stigma for seeking and accepting treatment, along with greater outreach and prevention efforts. I do not mean to suggest that there was no sensitive and appropriate media coverage of the events. Many stories were sympathetic to the needs of troubled youth on campuses, urging improvements and cautioning against attempts to exclude students. Former Rosalynn Carter Journalism Fellow, John Head, for example, wrote, in the <i><a href="http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2007/04/20/edhead0420.html">Atlanta Journal Constitution</a></i>, "A policy that punishes students for enduring emotional and mental disturbances will only discourage them from seeking help." Articles and editorials have called for expanded suicide prevention programs and improvements in culturally competent services, as well. An article in the <i><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042201190.html">Washington Post</a></i>, by another former Carter Fellow, Shankar Vedantam looked "beyond the shooter," to consider social factors that may have contributed to the fatal outcome. And there did emerge a number a number of pieces that looked more fully and sympathetically at the life of Cho Seung-Hui and at his family&#39;s pain and suffering. Media coverage also brought to light the archaic and offensive language of the federal statutes for regulation of gun purchases. I am referring to the prohibition against selling guns to "mental defectives,&#39; a category which, for the federal government, apparently includes persons with mental illnesses. I am amazed that such a reference to mental illness—language that was discarded decades ago because of its pejorative nature and its connection to eugenics and Nazi cleansing—could still be the chosen terminology in the laws of our country.I can only hope that the wide exposure of this language in the press may lead to sufficient embarrassment and/or outrage as to generate an appropriate updating. I am, however, cautiously optimistic. Despite the great deal of stigmatizing coverage that has surrounded the tragic loss of life at Virginia Tech, the discussions that are occurring have the potential to generate important changes. Chief among these are greater understanding of and improved responsiveness to mental health needs on campuses. I do not mean to suggest, as some media coverage has, that these are needed primarily to protect the student body from unstable shooters, but rather that they are needed so that universities can enhance their abilities to support the learning and accomplishment of all students, including the many who experience mental health problems. -- Archived with permission of the author. Original Source: MIWatch.org <a href="http://www.miwatch.org/Wahl.htm">http://www.miwatch.org/Wahl.htm</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Otto Wahl (owahl@hartford.edu) Title A name given to the resource Thoughts About Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech Tragedy media coverage mental health mental illness violence 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 Christie M. Wills Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource ERD provides a $20,000 grant for counseling By Christie M. Wills They&#39;re calling it a "Hokie Cry." It&#39;s described as a wave of emotion that washes over people in the Virginia Tech community, sometimes out of the blue, sometimes when they thought they were doing just fine. Christ Church, Blacksburg, parishioner Bob Miller remembers one Hokie Cry on a Sunday morning. "It was the day when one of the lectionary readings ended with &#39;and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.&#39; The layreader had to collect herself to get through it and lots of us cried along with her," said Miller. Although Blacksburg was clearly the epicenter, people across the diocese felt the pain of the events of April 16. Most churches in the New River convocation have parishioners who are employed at Virginia Tech. Even parishes too far away to have Tech employees often have parents or grandparents of current Tech students. So on Saturday, April 21, Bishop Neff Powell called a diocesan meeting to provide guidance on how the Church might respond, especially on the first Sunday after the shooting. On several days&#39; notice, over 40 clergy and lay leaders across the diocese attended a daylong gathering at St. Thomas, Christiansburg, to pray and gain strength for the journey. New York psychologist Dr. Karen Binder-Brynes, a trauma counselor for the Episcopal Church who has worked with Katrina survivors and firefighters at the World Trade Center, led the program. "You have my deepest respect for all you&#39;ve been through," said Dr. Karen, who spoke to the group via speakerphone. She explained that the closer people are to the site of a traumatic event, the more affected they are. She said that it was normal to swing between feeling numb and feeling overwhelmed, as well as feeling sadness, loss, hopelessness and anger. "Senseless tragedies like this render us feeling out of control which is often a shameful feeling. That&#39;s one reason why we may have found ourselves glued to the TV, looking for answers," she said. "A Mary Tragedy" By late afternoon on April 16, many diocesan parishes had made plans for evening vigils and prayer services [including St. John&#39;s and St. Elizabeth&#39;s, Roanoke, and St. Stephen&#39;s, Forest]. Throughout the week, more parishes held services of remembrance and many noted a moderate number of visitors in their midst. At the same time, the staff at Christ Church, Blacksburg, had determined that while no Episcopal parishioners were among the killed or injured, the web of connectedness within the parish and the Tech community was intimate. Some parishioners eventually attended three or four or more funerals for friends, colleagues and students. All week, the parish phone rang frequently. According to secretary Judie Marsh, the majority of calls were either reporters or folks from outside the parish who called to offer condolences or assistance. On Tuesday, April 17, interim rector Elizabeth Morgan started her day by doing a live interview at 7 a.m. with a cable news anchor outside the parish office. She said one of the more bizarre phone calls she fielded that week was from a filmmaker in New York who wanted to arrive the next day and follow her around with a cameraman to produce a documentary. Morgan turned him down. Canterbury chaplain Scott Russell was en route home from a trip to Germany and did not learn what had happened until he passed through customs late on Monday. He returned to Blacksburg on Tuesday evening in time to join the Canterbury Club at the candlelight prayer vigil on campus. In his absence, the diocesan office dispatched two trauma-trained clergy, the Revs. Stephen Stanley, Christ Church, Roanoke, and Fran McCoy of St. Mark&#39;s, St. Paul/All Saints, Norton, in response to a request for additional chaplains by the campus student activities office. Stanley, McCoy, Hollins Chaplain Jan Fuller and Russell all reported spending a portion of their time on campus shielding grieving people from media cameras and from "the howling evangelists with the bullhorn calls for campus repentance echoing across the drill field," according to a sermon that Stanley later wrote. As the days passed, it became clear that while the tragedy was intense in Southwestern Virginia, even life-changing for some, there was very little that people could do in response, except pray. In his column for "Connections," Bishop Neff Powell assured all that "prayer will come into the locked rooms of fear in our hearts and begin to restore a measure of shalom." As Elizabeth Foster, Director of Christian Education at Christ Church, wrote in an email on April 19, "The most helpful thing at this point is to pray. That is kind of frustrating for those of us who are Marthas, but there is little we can do. We are depending on the Marys to pray for our strength and wisdom." World Response As the news spread, Episcopalians across the country and Anglicans around the world reached out to share their grief and support. Bishop Powell said one of the first emails he received was from Bishop David James in Bradford, England. Two particularly humbling emails of condolence were received on behalf of the diocese: one from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seoul expressing the shock and sorrow of Korean Catholics and one from the Rev. Bol Deng, a protégé of the late Rev. Marc Nikkel, in war-torn Sudan. Several dioceses, including Delaware, Colorado, Western Washington and Utah, made response to the tragedy on the front page or within their diocesan newspapers. The Diocese of Delaware opened their annual convention with prayerful silence for the murder victims and for all young people. Their convention keynote speaker, George Packard, Bishop Suffragan for Chaplaincies, had also met with Bishop Powell in New York (where Powell had been on sabbatical) to plan the April 20 gathering for leaders in this diocese. Utah Bishop Carolyn Tanner Irish wrote a poem which she read at an interfaith service of remembrance at the University of Utah. Bishop Marc Andrus of the Diocese of California wrote about the event in his online blog. Andrus is a Virginia Tech alumnus and credits the Christ Church Canterbury Club as his gateway to the Episcopal Church. Visits to the diocesan website quadrupled over normal daily traffic, peaking at about 2,000 hits per day in the first week. Within 36 hours, the diocese created an online presence to serve as a streamlined clearinghouse for up-to-date information. It prominently featured two buttons: one to request help and the other to offer help to others. Thanks to a small Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) grant, the site will be a permanent feature of the diocesan website. In times between emergencies, it will be a place to find resources on disaster preparedness. Visit <a href="http://www.dioswva.org/respond/">dioswva.org/respond</a> Moving Forward In a late May interview, campus chaplain Scott Russell said that looking back, much of the first week was a blur. For the most part, he spent the days on campus, running on adrenaline. Then, over the next few weeks, he and the rest of the Christ Church staff called on those they had not yet seen at church. "Some people process grief differently. Some get very quiet or retreat, which is okay, but we&#39;re checking on them," said Russell. In the last remaining days of classes, the core group of the Canterbury Club spent a lot of time together. "Many folks donated food so we had plenty to eat and often ate together. When we went out for a meal, we saw the look of recognition in other people&#39;s eyes; that they were touched in the same way," said Russell. Russell thanked those in the parish, in the diocese and around the world who prayed for the students and wrote letters to them. Youth from across the country including San Francisco and Arizona sent prayers written on colorful fabric in the style of Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags. The campus ministry at Christ Church also received many donations, such as from the youth of Grace Memorial, Lynchburg who sent $539 from a sub sandwich fundraiser. In all, about $5000 in donations was added to the newly formed Christ Church campus ministry endowment. On the last Sunday before graduation, Katie Stanhagen, the president of the parish&#39;s Canterbury Club thanked the congregation for their support of the students. Russell said she told parishioners that they had modeled for her what it meant to be in a loving Christian community. The vestry of Christ Church has appointed a committee to implement an approximately $20,000 ERD grant that was given to support counseling efforts for the wider public. Since the area was well-supplied with grief counselors in the first weeks of the tragedy, the parish committee has focused on using the grant to reach out to the community in the summer and into the school year. Among the options being considered: an ongoing, ecumenical series of community events such as films and lectures to provide a place to work through grief together; construction of a community labyrinth; specialized "care-for-the-caregiver" support, particularly for Tech faculty and staff. Russell expects to have a busy summer as he is leading the parish since interim rector Elizabeth Morgan was called to a parish in South Carolina. He&#39;ll also begin to contact incoming Episcopal students and will rotate with other campus ministers in staffing an information table during the orientation season. And he is looking forward to preaching at the increased number of weddings to be held at Christ Church this summer. "Our parish is a very organic place; we&#39;re able to take what comes. But I&#39;m looking forward to the sense of joy that these weddings will bring," said Russell. // To read updates of the events as they were posted and first-hand journal entries about the tragedy, as well as find information on disaster preparedness, visit <a href="http://www.dioswva.org/respond/">dioswva.org/respond</a> -- Archived with permission of author. Original Source: The Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia <a href="http://www.dioswva.org/news/2007/jun/blacksburg-diocese-seek-shalom-after-april-16-shootings">http://www.dioswva.org/news/2007/jun/blacksburg-diocese-seek-shalom-after-april-16-shootings</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Christie Wills (cwills@dioswva.org) Title A name given to the resource Blacksburg, diocese seek shalom after April 16 shootings blacksburg christ church church episcopal local response 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 Dinah Cardin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource By Dinah Cardin/salem@cnc.com GateHouse News Service Fri Jul 13, 2007, 12:29 PM EDT Salem - Paducah. Jonesboro. Columbine. They may sound like destinations toured by a small garage band, but if we reach back in memory, they are actually cities that have suffered at the hands of teenage angst combined with dangerous weapons. The Virginia Tech massacre this past spring was a wake-up call to institutions of higher education all over the world. High schools may have their metal detectors and movies starring Michelle Pfeiffer about tough street kids and their violent behavior, but colleges have so far been wide open to strangers and incident. As Shane Rodriguez, deputy director of the Salem State College Police Department, says, when Seung Hui Cho fatally shot 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech, he created "our 9-11." Last July, campus police placed an officer on the task of emergency preparedness. But Virginia Tech put the wheels into rapid motion. "When people send their sons and daughters to college, the last thing they expect is that they will be gunned down in a classroom or residence hall," says Rodriguez. That&#39;s why on June 29, Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett convened the first annual Essex County College Summit, linking campus security departments with the state police and the FBI. Officers from Salem State, Northern Essex Community, Endicott, Marion Court and Gordon colleges discussed their various security measures and listened to Col. Mark Delaney from the state police outline a training program for dealing specifically with school shooters. One of the most unique questions posed to Delaney was whether students should be locked in or out during a hostile shooter situation. His answer? Less moving parts means less confusion for law enforcement. Lock the doors, get away from the windows and wait for the "cavalry." The cavalry could be any number of local, state and federal law enforcement officers. But getting them on campus can take a while. That&#39;s why it comes down to campus police to initially act in a situation. The FBI terrorism division told the officers to develop a plan and then stick with it, practice it and learn from it. Without being too invasive in students&#39; lives. Part of this, says Rodriguez, involves reaching out to police departments in Swampscott and other surrounding towns, including them in the plan to call in every available law enforcement officer. Officers from Salem State College will participate in the state police&#39;s active shooter program later this month, along with officers from the Salem Police Department. The state-funded program involves donning swat team equipment and simulating locking down a school to reach the ultimate goal of eliminating the violent threat and saving lives. The only cost to police departments is for the paint balls they will be shooting out of their weapons. <b>Being prepared</b> Across the North Shore, college officials are working to tighten security in time for the fall semester. Of them all, Salem State is probably at the highest risk for a violent attack since the city is difficult to get in and out of, the college encompasses four separate campuses and two new residence halls are being built. It&#39;s not only the largest in the area and constantly growing, Salem State is a big commuter school and is soon going to university status. Needless to say, there is a lot going on. All of this poses a big challenge for safety. Arming officers at Salem State is simply a necessity to protect the students and staff, says the chief of campus police. They started carrying patrol pistols a couple of years ago. "We finally came to the conclusion it was time," says Salem State chief of police Bill Anglin. "We&#39;re our own little city now." Schools are also looking to use technology to keep students away from campus in case of such an emergency. For two years, the state is funding a text messaging system on all state college campuses that will alert students of emergencies as well as snow days. During registration, the college will be collecting cell phone numbers from students. It&#39;s been proven, says Robert Paterson, chief information officer at Salem State, that you only need 65 to 70 percent of student phone numbers for the system to work. There are enough students hanging out together that the word gets around. "The big thing that we learned from Virginia Tech is you need to have multiple channels of communication to the community," says Paterson. The lesson of overloaded communication channels has been learned on 9-11 and during Hurricane Katrina. Even on Thanksgiving, phone lines get jammed. The school is still working out the final cost when the two-year state funded initiative runs out. Salem State is the only college in Essex County with armed officers. But that could soon change. "We&#39;re moving closer in that direction," says John Soucy, environmental, health and safety officer at Gordon College. This might come as a surprise for a religious institution. "We like to think the Lord is protecting us," says Soucy. Still, he says, public safety is service oriented and having firearms makes you a better servant. "It&#39;s better than standing and watching it happen," he says. <b>&#39;No warnings&#39;</b> At last week&#39;s summit, Julia Cowley of the FBI&#39;s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime told the assembled that there are three major categories of violent youth — the mentally ill, the antisocial and the "normal." They have often engaged in behavior that has caused concern for others. In a study of 41 offenders from 37 schools, the findings showed that the violent youth almost always felt bullied. Kip Kinkel, from Cowley&#39;s home state of Oregon, said over and over that he had "no choice" when he killed his parents and then shot students. Beware, said Cowley, of the "injustice collector." But school shootings can also result from the angry ex-husband of a faculty member, she reminded the group. In a slide presentation, she showed disturbing drawings done by the offenders. They were often dark and violent, showing the classic violent youth characteristics of narcissism and lack of empathy. They often tell no one beforehand if they are serious about doing the act and may plan it forever. "Eric and Dylan planned their attack for nearly a year and there were no warnings," she said of the Columbine shooters, speaking almost intimately about those in her area of expertise. Matt Gallagher of the FBI&#39;s Victim Assistance Program is someone school officials don&#39;t want to get to know. His office assisted Virginia Tech after the shootings. Gallagher spoke of the mistakes made there, like when faculty members were counseling one another. This summer, Salem State is refining their plan, talking about resources and grants. Rodriguez is putting in long hours during a relatively quiet time for a college campus. His enthusiasm for the topic of preparing for a school shooting seemingly has no bounds. "We don&#39;t want to be caught off guard," he says. "We want to be as prepared as possible. Virginia Tech forced us to take a real hard look at it. We&#39;re diligent now." -- Original Source: Boston, MA - Town Online <a href="http://www.townonline.com/homepage/x117549697">http://www.townonline.com/homepage/x117549697</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0</a>. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Title A name given to the resource Security 101: Salem State and other campuses step up safety boston fbi police safety salem state college security 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 Elva Orozco Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource By Nicole Haley/Daily News staff GHS Tue Apr 17, 2007, 01:04 AM EDT NO DATA - The news seemed surreal for anyone who turned on the television yesterday. Even anchors on the major news networks reported asking law enforcement officials to repeat themselves, unable to believe what they were being told. But for Waltham native Marcus Ly, the shootings on Virginia Tech&#39;s campus were particularly difficult to comprehend. "I called a lot of my friends in Blacksburg. They&#39;re all OK," said Ly, a Virginia Tech grad student. "But it&#39;s just a lot of confusion, they don&#39;t really know anything more than we do reading the headlines." Speaking by phone yesterday from Minneapolis, Ly said he was in shock. A gunman killed 32 people on the campus and then took his own life, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. A 1995 Waltham High School graduate, Ly finished a graduate school program in industrial and systems engineering at Virginia Tech last winter. He was a representative on the university&#39;s Board of Visitors and worked closely with the president and higher levels of administration. "It&#39;s really the equivalent of something like this happening in Weston," said Ly, trying to describe the town of Blacksburg, home to the 2,600-acre Virginia Tech campus. Ly said Blacksburg was on of the safest communities he has ever lived in. Around 7:15 a.m. yesterday, the first shot rang out in West Ambler Johnston Hall, a co-ed dormitory. The gunfire resumed two hours later at Norris Hall, the engineering science and mechanics building, where most of the fatalities occurred, according to Associated Press reports. "It&#39;s more shocking than Columbine," Ly said, referring to the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colo. Two teenagers killed 12 students and one teacher and wounded 24 more before the shooters committed suicide. Like many others watching the events unfold from home, Ly saw the video streamed on cnn.com and shown repeatedly on television, recorded by a Virginia Tech student on his cell phone. The shaky camera work shows police approaching one building as gunshot after gunshot rings out in the background. "I watched it and I knew exactly where it was," said Ly, who had walked that area on any given morning less than a year ago. Newton resident Theodore Fritz also recognized the buildings photographers captured throughout the day. "I&#39;m certainly transfixed here," said Fritz, a 1961 Virginia Tech graduate who watched television reports throughout the day. A Boston University professor, the killings affected Fritz both as a college educator and as a Virginia Tech alumnus. "I think this probably could have happened anywhere," he said. Former Boston College baseball coach Pete Hughes, who now coaches at Virginia Tech, returned home with his team from a game at Florida State University about 3 a.m. yesterday. Hughes was rousted from bed by the news and immediately began scrambling to track down his players. One was "bunkered down" in the basement of Norris Hall and managed to escape, while three others fled the dorm, he said. Senior Beth Goldberg of Newton said students in lockdown on campus were able to communicate with the outside world by computer. "They seemed pretty calm," Goldberg said. "We didn&#39;t realize how bad it was at the time." Ly, who today runs an IT consulting company in Minnesota, said Virginia Tech was really the last place he would expect to see such a slaughter. Ly, who has lived in Chicago and Washington, D.C., repeatedly referred to Blacksburg as a "middle of nowhere" location - a quiet, small town where nothing much happens. "To all the Hokies out there, we&#39;re all very touched," Ly said, invoking the school&#39;s nickname. Yesterday was not the first time some of Virginia Tech&#39;s 25,000 students evacuated classrooms amidst chaos. On Friday, the school canceled classes in three buildings because of a bomb threat, and students fled Torgersen Hall on April 2 after police received a written bomb threat, according to reports from WDBJ in Roanoke, Va., and The Roanoke Times. Last August, the first day of classes was cut short as police searched out William Morva, a 24-year-old escaped convict who killed a security guard and sheriff&#39;s deputy at a hospital just two miles from the campus. Ly said he recognized Morva in news reports after the incident. "He was sitting next to me every day in the local coffee shop," Ly recalled. "He would always mumble to himself." "This is really bad news for the university," Ly said. "People are going to start transferring." -- Original Source: The Daily News Tribune - Waltham, Ma. <a href="http://www.dailynewstribune.com/local_news/x1650172714">http://www.dailynewstribune.com/local_news/x1650172714</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported</a>. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Title A name given to the resource Virginia Tech shootings shake the country law enforcements waltham 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 Danielle Williamson/Daily News staff Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource By Danielle Williamson/Daily News staff GHS Tue Apr 17, 2007, 12:07 AM EDT NO DATA - For Bill Saam, the slaughter yesterday at his alma mater resurrected the shock, sadness and anger he felt when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. "On a personal level, the feeling I had today was very much the way I felt on 9/11," said Saam, a Northborough resident and 1992 Virginia Tech graduate. An active member of the college&#39;s alumni association, Saam was in touch yesterday with other classmates who struggled to comprehend the news. "It&#39;s very much a tight-knit community," he said. "I hope no one from New England is directly affected by this." Saam described Blacksburg as a "small, rural area." "You don&#39;t hear about crime down there, never mind shootings," he said. For Milford native Jim Pyne, a 1993 Virginia Tech graduate, yesterday&#39;s murders are a sad reflection on the state of society. "We have people who fly planes into buildings ... and screwballs who have guns and shouldn&#39;t have them," said Pyne, a former professional football player. "It&#39;s the society we live in, and it&#39;s just despicable." Pyne, who was an All-American at Virginia Tech and played nine seasons in the NFL, said he watched much of the news yesterday but "couldn&#39;t keep watching it. It doesn&#39;t seem real." "I&#39;ve been in all those buildings. I took classes there," Pyne said. "I feel for the parents of the 33 kids and I&#39;m horrified about what happened and what it&#39;s like for them." Peter Darby of Charlestown, who leads the New England chapter of Virginia Tech&#39;s alumni association, said the Boston area has 1,300 alumni, many of whom were in contact with each other yesterday. "We&#39;re stunned just numb," Darby said. For Waltham native Marcus Ly, the shootings were particularly difficult to comprehend. "I called a lot of my friends in Blacksburg. They&#39;re all OK," said Ly, a Virginia Tech grad student speaking by phone yesterday from Minneapolis. "But it&#39;s just a lot of confusion, they don&#39;t really know anything more than we do reading the headlines." A 1995 Waltham High School graduate, Ly finished a graduate school program in industrial and systems engineering at Virginia Tech last winter. "It&#39;s really the equivalent of something like this happening in Weston," said Ly, trying to describe the town of Blacksburg, home to the 2,600-acre Virginia Tech campus. "It&#39;s one of the safest cities I&#39;ve ever lived in and I&#39;ve lived in a lot of cities." Natick&#39;s Chris Mitchell, a junior at Virginia Tech, never imagined such horror could occur on the campus. "It&#39;s a small town and a university where everybody knows everybody," Mitchell, an economics major, told WCVB-TV. "It&#39;s the last place where you&#39;d think something like this would happen." Newton resident Theodore Fritz recognized the buildings photographers captured throughout the day. "I&#39;m certainly transfixed here," said Fritz, a 1961 Virginia Tech graduate who watched television reports throughout the day. A Boston University professor, the killings affected Fritz both as a college educator and a Virginia Tech alumnus. "I think this probably could have happened anywhere," he said. Danielle Williamson can be reached at 508-490-7475 or dwilliam@cnc.com. Daily News staff writers Albert Breer and Nicole Haley contributed to this story. -- Original Source:Framingham,MA - The MetroWest Daily News <a href="http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/local_news/x1298126656">http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/local_news/x1298126656</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0</a>. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Title A name given to the resource Massacre of 32 at Virginia Tech shocks alumni in MetroWest alumni boston university massacre metrowest 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 La bloguera Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource Publicado por La bloguera en Mayo 2, 2007 04:24 PM La peor masacre escolar en la historia de Estados Unidos, que dejó un saldo de 33 muertos en la Universidad de Virginia Tech, ha generado más interrogantes que respuestas, y mientras la nación está de luto muchos se preguntan cómo afectará ésta tragedia la imagen del inmigrante en este país. La prensa repite constantemente que el asesino, Cho Seung-Hui, emigró de Corea a los 8 años. Antes de sus escalofriantes actos, la historia del joven es similar a la de muchas familias inmigrantes. Sus padres que emigraron buscando un futuro mejor, durante años trabajaron en una lavandería, y seguramente estaban orgullosos que sus hijos fueran a la universidad. Inicialmente, Cho Seung-Hui, fue blanco de las burlas por no saber inglés, pero eventualmente aprendió el idioma, y se podría decir que incluso absorbió los aspectos más violentos de esta sociedad, donde los tiroteos en las escuelas parecen repetirse sin sentido. Ahora sus padres viven "una horrible pesadilla" según un comunicado de la familia que agrega que nunca se imaginaron la capacidad de violencia de su hijo quien "ha puesto a llorar al mundo". Pero esta masacre también tiene otra cara inmigrante que no ha recibido tanta atención de los medios. Las víctimas, los héroes y los dolientes de esta tragedia, también tienen rostro inmigrante y desde Perú, Puerto Rico, Indonesia, India, Líbano, Polonia, Vietnam, Canadá y los Emiratos Arabes Unidos, llegaron para cumplir su sueño americano estudiando o enseñando en Virginia Tech. El profesor Liviu Librescu, nacido en Polonia, se interpuso ante las balas tratando de salvar la vida de sus estudiantes. El maestro bloqueó la puerta del salón, mientras le urgía a sus estudiantes que se tiraran al piso. El estudiante peruano, Daniel Pérez Cueva de 21 años, también murió en el tiroteo. Su madre Betty Cueva lo recuerda como un joven alegre, que sin embargo asumió grandes responsabilidades familiares tras la deportación de su padre a Perú y se pagaba sus estudios para no incomodar a su familia. Juan Ramón Ortiz de Puerto Rico, también fue víctima de la masacre. Su padre, al ser entrevistado desde Puerto Rico, dio un ejemplo de compasión al mundo, al decir entre lágrimas, que también había que orar por la familia del asesino. Al igual que ese fatídico 11 de septiembre, con la masacre en Virginia Tech, los inmigrantes sufren en carne propia las tragedias nacionales, pero a la vez son una parte integral y necesaria para cicatrizar estas heridas y luchar por un mejor país. -- Fuente Original: Los Blogueros - Washington, DC. <a href="http://www.losblogueros.net/mt-weblog/2007/05/las_caras_inmigrantes_de_la_ma.html">http://www.losblogueros.net/mt-weblog/2007/05/las_caras_inmigrantes_de_la_ma.html</a> Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Nick, or Dabloguiman Title A name given to the resource Las caras inmigrantes de la masacre de Virginia Tech emigracion inmigrante librescu ortiz perez 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 Vera Izrailit Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource Wednesday, April 18, 2007 A nutcase shot 32 people and himself in Virginia tech. He was a loner, was obsessed with violence, and left some notes blaming "rich kids" and "debauchery" (that is, disapproved of other people having more money and getting laid more often than himself - which is a rather common human emotion, but most people don&#39;t go postal because of it). The university is being blamed for not acting fast enough on the day of the shooting. I don&#39;t know if they should be blamed for it - I am sure an investigation will find out, one way or another - but what I would like to know is how come the university did not do anything after the guy harassed a few women and set fire to the dorm. (Maybe there is some good answer to that, too.) The man has also written two plays that the readers found very violent and highly disturbing. <a href="http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/">Here they are.</a> I have read them and have not found them particularly violent or disturbing: they are rather violent, but I and people I know have written worse without shooting anyone, and they are quite angry in a teenagery way, but nothing really out of ordinary. They would not have rung a warning bell with me. I wonder if that&#39;s just me being desensitized to violence, or the people did not really see anything scary about them earlier and are just having a flash of hindsight now, or do the creative writing teachers and students see warnings much more efficiently than ordinary people like myself. There was a lot of conversation of gun control after this. I have no strong opinion on gun control one way or the other, at least as long as it does not interfere with my pistol shooting hobby (and currently in Finland it doesn&#39;t), but after seeing several people in the US point out that the gunman could have been stopped earlier if any of the students or teachers had a gun on them, and several of my friends on IRC make fun of this argument, I must say that those people in the US really do have a point: I don&#39;t, generally speaking, believe that an armed society is a polite society. It&#39;s a tradeoff: on one hand, if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have them, on the other hand it might well be safer when only the serious outlaws have guns than when every teenage hooligan has them. However, if we already are in a state where people are allowed to buy and carry firearms freely, banning guns from a small area like a university campus really will lead to a situation where everyone who is up to no good can have a gun, and no law-abiding citizen will. The worst of both worlds. Posted by Vera at <a href="http://izrailit.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech-shooting.html">4/18/2007 12:40:00 PM</a> -- Original Source: Vera&#39;s log <a href="http://izrailit.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech-shooting.html">http://izrailit.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia-tech-shooting.html</a> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License</a>. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License Title A name given to the resource Virginia tech shooting blog reaction 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 Keith Boykin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-17 Description An account of the resource By Keith Boykin, in <a href="http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/politics/">politics</a> Tuesday, April 17 2007, 10:24AM The news was gruesome and alarming. Reuters reported that at least <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM628011.htm">30 people</a> were shot yesterday in a deadly gun rampage that rocked a city once known for its <a href="http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/baghdad.htm">safety</a> and <a href="http://islam.about.com/cs/history/a/aa040703a.htm">scholarship</a>. By now, you&#39;ve heard about the story, and many of us have already stopped paying attention. But I&#39;m not talking about the deadly school shooting in Virginia Monday morning. I&#39;m talking about the deadly violence in <a href="http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx">Iraq</a> that goes on everyday. While most of the world was understandably horrified by the campus shooting at Virginia Tech yesterday, almost no one paid attention to the 30 people who were <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM628011.htm">shot and killed</a> in Baghdad on the same day. The shock and horror of watching such dramatic violence in Virginia immediately resonated with Americans. But here&#39;s something else to ponder. What if it happened every day? What if we saw that kind of carnage in our communities every night on the evening news? It sounds far-fetched, but that&#39;s exactly the situation that faces many Iraqis almost every day of the year. If the shooting in Virginia tells us anything about human society, it should tell us that violence is far too common in the world. It&#39;s not just an American problem or an Iraqi problem, it is a global problem. What kind of world do we live in where young students have virtually unfettered access to sophisticated deadly weapons that can be used to kill their classmates and teachers? And how did we become desensitized to the tens of thousands of civilian casulaties in a war we&#39;re still fighting in Baghdad? I don&#39;t think it is possible to stop every murder or every killing that takes place in this country or abroad, but I do believe we have a responsibility to promote the conditions for peace. For all the talk about our Christian values in America, we are an extraordinarily violent society. The FBI reported <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_01.html">1.4 million</a> violent crimes in the U.S. in 2005 and more than 16,000 murders. That&#39;s a drop from the record high figures in the early 1990s but it shows that we are still far too violent. Through elective wars, capital punishment, gang violence, and media depictions of violence, we demonstrate our collective societal preference for violence as a solution to our problems. I don&#39;t know what motivated the young student in Virginia to shoot up his classmates, and I don&#39;t know what motivates the suicide bombers in Iraq to blow up their neighbors. But I do know that we have a duty to promote peace in this country and abroad. Imagine the impact that could be made if America lead an international campaign for peace instead of a war on terror. Imagine the goodwill we could generate if we diverted some of the $500 billion we&#39;ve spent on war in recent years so that we could build hospitals, schools, and housing throughout the undeveloped world. Imagine the difference it might make if our leaders dropped some of the macho rhetoric and talked about service, duty and community responsibility? I know there will be much discussion in the next few days about gun control and mental health counseling and legislation, and I welcome that conversation. But we should also ask ourselves about the world we&#39;ve created and what each of us can do to make it better and more peaceful. The Virginia shooting was shocking, in part, because it was so unusual. Unlike the Iraqis, we&#39;re not accustomed to seeing such large-scale violence on a regular basis. Or, more precisely, we&#39;re not accustomed to seeing it here in the United States, because clearly we know it&#39;s happening in Iraq. But what if it happened here everyday? That might be the tragic catalyst that would finally inspire us to do something positive and constructive about the violence in our country and the rest of the world. It would be tempting to point to the shooter in Blacksburg and isolate him as the problem. But the problem and the solution don&#39;t lie outside of us. They answers are within. -- Original Source: keithboykin.com <a href="http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/2007/04/17/what_if_it_happ">http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/2007/04/17/what_if_it_happ</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0</a>. 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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 https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/DSCN0188_142fdc0d3e.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 Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Organizacion de Estudiantes Mexicanos en Virginia Tech Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-19 Description An account of the resource Placa donada por la organización de estudiantes Mexicanos en Virginia Tech y el Consulado Mexicano en Washington, DC. Esta placa fue entregada el pasado 11 de mayo del 2007 en señal de respeto y cariño hacia las victimas que fallecieron en los trágicos eventos del pasado 16 de Abril del 2007. Foto cortesía de Jorge Daniel Moncada de la Rosa A talabera plate donated as a tribute for the students and faculty injured at the April 16, shootings. This donation was sponsored by the Mexican student&#39;s organization at Virginia Tech and the Mexican Consulate at Washington, DC as a gesture of love and respect for the victims. Photo courtesy of Jorge Daniel Moncada de la Rosa Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Jorge Daniel Moncada de la Rosa Presidente de la Asociacion de Mexicanos moncada@vt.edu Title A name given to the resource Tributo para las victimas de la Tragedia de Virginia Tech estudiantes mexicanos trubuto 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 姚国健, 中国新闻网 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-19 Description An account of the resource 稿源： 中国新闻网 编辑： 姚国健 2007-04-22 04:42 今天中午弗吉尼亚理工大学中国学生学近百人在校园联合纪念死难同学，并为死难者捐款。 　　记者看到，在校园的中心大草地上，中国学者学生近百人聚集起来，在铺在草地上的白布上签下自己的姓名和留言。同学们自发为死难学子捐款，有的从钱包掏出现金，有的还在在现场用早已准备好的支票填写金额，然后投入募捐的箱子。据中国学生学者联谊会负责人介绍，这些款项将如数转交给校方的相关基金会。 　　据了解，这是该校所有的中国学族裔和社团中最早举办独立纪念活动的。该校学生学者联谊会负责人对记者说，大家聚集起来的目的，不是为了表明自己的清白，标榜和韩国裔同学的区别，而是和全校师生分享悲伤，体现中国学子作为弗吉尼亚理工大学一分子的共同愿望。 　　记者采访一些中国留学生后了解到，枪案发生后，整个校园笼罩在悲伤之中，亚裔学子心情最为压抑，有些韩裔学生因为担心报复和歧视，已经离开了校园。中国学子认为，当地和学校的保护措施很好，除了自己需要小心，还应该更多地真诚融合到主流社会中。 -- Original Source:中国新闻网 http://www.enorth.com.cn <a href="http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2007/04/22/001627575.shtml">http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2007/04/22/001627575.shtml</a> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 弗吉尼亚理工大学中国学生学者联合纪念死难者 中国学生学者��纪念死难者 �款 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 邱江波 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-19 Description An account of the resource 中新网布莱克斯堡4月19日电 题：误冲禁区被捕三小时，中国学生崔少卓体验完全不同枪案现场 记者 邱江波 第一个冲进警戒黄线，最早拍摄枪击案发后最近的现场，因警方误认他为凶案歹徒，被四名警察制服在地，拘押三个小时，中国学生崔少卓体验了完全不同的枪案。今天下午，本网记者有幸巧遇并专访了崔少卓。 　　崔少卓是在四月十七日警方公布了制造弗吉尼亚血腥枪案的真凶身份之后被人们想起的，此前，美国主流媒体福克斯电视新闻台(Fox News)、美国有线新闻网(CNN)一遍又一遍播放那个令人疑惑的画面：四个体形高大，全副武装的特警将一个亚裔男子按倒在地，双手背过身后，另一名警察用长枪对准这个被制服的男子。不明真相的电视观众听到的电视解说，是一则完全与画面无关的消息，主持人煞有介事地说：无法证实的消息说，制造枪案的那名男子来自中国上海。于是想当然把这位被警方拘捕的中国籍男子当作了嫌疑犯。然而，那是一个天大的错误。 　　体型健壮的崔少卓今年二十四岁，五年前随全家人从中国吉林迁居美国弗吉尼亚，现在已经是弗吉尼亚理工大学计算机系四年级学生，业余时间在校报从事摄影工作。他的宿舍离血案发生的两栋楼并不远，那天早上，他迷迷糊糊地睁开眼睛，发现气氛异常，于是立马背上摄影包，向出事地点跑去。 　　为了拍到第一手的照片，他没有意识到自己已经在警方最紧张的时刻闯入了禁区。当他从地洼的草丛探出头时，竟然和神情紧张的警察面面相觑，这种僵持很快就被警察打破，冲过来的四个体形高大，全副武装的特警将他按倒在地，将他的双手拗过背后，然后铐上手铐，另一名警察还一直不停用长枪瞄准趴在地上的崔少卓。 　　尽管崔少卓不停地向警察解释，他仅仅是一名学生记者，但警察丝毫没有听他的话。这时候，崔少卓说，他仿佛听到Norri教学楼又响了一声枪。警察乱作一团，立即集合人马向楼内冲进去，但却留下了两名稍稍年轻的警察，继续看押他，不过，这时候他已经被允许可以坐在草地上了。 　　他看到警察忙忙碌碌进进出出，也看到有人被抬出大楼的门，他明白那里面的确出了什么严重的案件。为了打破与警察的窘迫局面，他开始与警察"套近乎"，说些轻松的话题，他说："现在看来，我是唯一安全的人了。"警察也被他的话逗笑了。 　　崔少卓对记者回忆道，大约过了四五十分钟，警察给他换了一副两手间距离稍稍宽松一些的手铐。把他扔进路边的一辆警车，这样他又度过了难熬的两个小时。期间，尽管因为警车的车门紧闭，听不见警察的说话，但却能够通过窗外警察的手持电台，听到警方不断通报Norris教学楼里面的情况。他听到里面的警察说死伤了数十人，不觉被惊呆了。 　　由于凶案现场的情况几乎可以排除崔少卓的犯罪嫌疑，他发现在车外看守他的警察气氛缓和下来，有一个年轻的警察还给自己的家人打电话，说没什么事情了，他自己很安全。这时，他发现这个警车里面，还放着一个宝宝熊的玩具，他想到，警察也是人，也有自己的感情和生活。 　　中午十二点半，警察释放了他，但却收缴了他的摄影器材和身份证明。警察最后半开玩笑地告诉他，"你知道么？你离监狱已经很近了啊。" 　　崔少卓头脑昏昏地回到宿舍，想到要打电话给父母，他怕引发家人的担忧，只是轻描淡写地讲述了简单过程。她家人可能也还不知道这边发生的事态有多严重，他父亲竟然还调侃了他一句。到了晚上，她全家看到电视报道，才感到后怕。 　　几乎所有的朋友和他在校报的同事都看到了一遍又一遍播出的镜头，并且对电视台胡乱配发的语言解说大为愤慨，更有同学打电话到CNN电视台抗议，才迫使CNN终于不再播放那个与案情毫无牵连的镜头。 　　崔少卓说，他的体格健壮，整个事件身体上没有受伤，只是内心有些不舒服：其一，电视台不负责任反覆播放这些无关的镜头，还配上无中生有的猜测，他们应该道歉。至于有人在电视上根据这个画面大做文章，嫁祸中国人，他更是感到惊讶。 　　崔少卓认为人类不管什么种族和国家，都会有共同的观念，对于无辜遇难的同学，都会表现出同情和悲伤。他认为，这个案件是一个极个别的案例，不会影响各族裔同学之间的关系，之所以出现这样不可思议的惨案，不在于赵承熙所说的那些原因，而在于林子大了，总会出现一些极个别的极端分子，赵承熙自身的心理问题，才是事件的最重要原因。 -- Original Source:中国新闻网 http://www.sina.com.cn <a href="http://news.sina.com.cn/w/p/2007-04-20/104012825959.shtml">http://news.sina.com.cn/w/p/2007-04-20/104012825959.shtml</a> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 中国留学生最早拍摄枪案现场误冲禁区被捕3小时 崔少� 误冲�区 警戒黄线 中国留学生 自身的心�问题 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 China Daily/agencies 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 UPDATED: 11:01, April 18, 2007 Foreign politicians and media once again attacked America&#39;s "gun culture" yesterday. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said tough legislation introduced after a mass shooting in Tasmania in 1996 had prevented the US gun culture emerging in his country. After the shooting Australia imposed laws banning almost all types of semi-automatic weapons. "We showed a national resolve that the gun culture that is such a negative in the United States would never become a negative in our country," said Howard, extending sympathies to the families of the victims at Virginia Tech University. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also expressed their sympathies. Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth II was "shocked" and "saddened," a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said. Along with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, the queen is set to pay a two-day visit to Virginia early next month to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement, her first visit to the United States in 16 years. Iran, at loggerheads with the United States over its nuclear program, spoke out against the killings. "Iran condemns the killing of Virginia university students and expresses its condolences to the families of victims and the American nation," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement. European newspapers saw a grim inevitability about the shootings, given the right to bear arms which is enshrined in US constitution. In Italy, the Leftist Il Manifesto newspaper said the shooting was "as American as apple pie". More than 30,000 people die from gunshot wounds in the United States annually and there are more guns in private hands than in any other country. But a powerful gun lobby and support for gun ownership have thwarted attempts to tighten controls. "It would be vain to hope that even so destructive a crime as this will cool the American ardour for guns," the Independent newspaper said in a commentary. Gerard Baker, a columnist for The Times newspaper, feared worse was yet to come: "The truth is that only an optimist would imagine Virginia Tech will hold the new record for very long." France&#39;s Le Monde newspaper said such episodes frequently disfigure the "American dream". "The... slaughter forces American society to once again examine itself, its violence, the obsession with guns of part of its population, the troubles of its youth, subjected to the double tyranny of abundance and competition," it wrote. Campaigners in other countries where gun ownership is common expressed fears of a similar massacre. -- Original Source:: China Daily/agencies <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/200704/18/eng20070418_367507.html">http://english.people.com.cn/200704/18/eng20070418_367507.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource &#39;Gun culture&#39; again target of criticism after killings gun culture gun ownership 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 Xinhua - China Daily 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 The Foreign Ministry yesterday criticized some US media for "irresponsible reports" claiming that the killer in the Virginia Tech shootings was Chinese. Spokesman Liu Jianchao said it was a terrible mistake and a violation of professional ethics to publish reports before checking the facts. Before it was revealed that the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia campus on Monday was a student from South Korea, Michael Sneed, a columnist for Chicago Sun-Times, wrote that the shooter was a 24-year-old man from China. MSNBC, which cited Sneed&#39;s story on its website, said he went to the US last year on a student visa issued in Shanghai. Some reports even made public the blog of "Chinese shooter" Jiang Wei&#39;en. But the US police later identified the killer as Cho Seung-hui; and university officials said he was a "troubled" young man on medication for depression. He is believed to have killed himself. Sneed&#39;s story was immediately picked up by other media in the United States and Jiang&#39;s blog had more than 37,000 visits in a few hours. For those checking the blog hoping to find out the motive behind the shooting spree, Jiang decided to speak up. "Everybody was talking about me as a criminal. I just want to prove my innocence," Jiang told ABC in an interview widely quoted by Chinese websites. "Yes, I am an Asian; I live in a school dorm; I am a student of Virginia Tech; I just broke up with my girlfriend and I love guns. But I am NOT the murderer," he said. Jiang said he received death threats till the time the South Korean student was identified as the killer. Many Chinese students at Virginia Tech are also angered by the US media reports and some said they would write a letter of protest to the Chicago Sun-Times. They pointed specifically to Sneed&#39;s story. "The reckless report put pressure on, and tarnished the image of, the Chinese community here in Blacksburg as well as in the US," said the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Virginia Tech (VT-ACSS) in an email to China Daily. VT-ACSS is the largest international organization on campus. There are over 900 Chinese studying in Virginia Tech or working in neighbouring towns. -- Original Source: Xinhua - China Daily <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/200704/19/eng20070419_367784.html"> http://english.people.com.cn/200704/19/eng20070419_367784.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource US reports on &#39;Chinese killer&#39; criticized chinese community chinese students criticize irresponsible reports 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 People&#39;s Daily Online, China 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 Many Americans have once again been plunged into terror since a gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history, and a string of endless media reports, the gunman&#39;s cruel, merciless confessions and blood shed by 32 victims have further increased the fear of Americans. First of all, it is the fear of guns. As some American resolutely defend or safeguard their rights to own or possess guns conferred by the US constitution, other Americans cannot but have to live in a gloomy shadow at gun points. At present, 35 percent of the American families own their guns, with the existence of some 260 million guns (of which perhaps 60 million are handguns) in the United States. For scores of years, political rifts, rivals and even struggles centered on gun control have never ceased with the repeated occurrence of homicides or murder cases. As the National Rifle Association, or NRA, and other related organizations are so powerful that it was hardly possible for US Congress to pass a bill for the rigid control of guns. Secondly, it is the fear of people and, to be specific, the fear of alien immigrants. Right after the massacre at Virginia Tech, someone immediately came out to direct accusations against a student from the Chinese mainland in press and there was also a reference to a Pakistani. And all sorts of such conjectures and suspicions of Asian immigrants inundated all of sudden overnight in US media and society. Police identified the shooter in the campus killings as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior from South Korea who was in the English Department at Virginia Tech and lived on the campus. Then, the ambassador of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to the United States and ROK immigrant groups or societies openly and promptly made their apologies to the American people, and the ROK itself was, too, landed itself in a state of immense restlessness. Apparently, the South Korean immigrants in the U.S. and ROK residents have also felt terrified for the fear of being retaliated against or subjected to retributive punishment. The merging or integration of races in American society has all along a problem. There were repeated voices of "Go home, South Koreans" despite the fact that American media and general public have, in an overall way, retained a "politically correct" composure and quite a few people voiced sympathy for Cho Seung-Hui for the mental illness he had tormented with. In fact, ever since the 9/11 attacks of 2001 in the U.S., the Americans have always been living in terror imposed upon by terrorists. US strategist Zbigniew Brzenzinki censured or criticized the Bush administration for the erroneous policy it had implemented to generate fear in a recent article by capitalizing on a sense of terror among people wrought by 9/11 attacks in the U.S. The war on terror has created a culture of fear in America, he noted, adding that the Bush Administration&#39;s elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact in American democracy, on America&#39;s psyche and on US standing in the world. "Using this phrase has actually undermined our ability to effectively confront the real challenges we face from fanatics who may use terrorism against the U.S.," warned Brzenzinski. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to Americans in a ringing phrase that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," which inspired American to cope with terror they endured correctly and thus brought a new style to the US presidency. To date, Americans seem to have been thrown into still greater terrors, though their country has been turned into the sole global superpower. -- Original Source:People&#39;s Daily Online, China <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/200705/08/eng20070508_372880.html"> http://english.people.com.cn/200705/08/eng20070508_372880.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource On "terror" gunman the fear of alien immigrants the fear of guns the fear of people 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 Luis Guerrero Ortiz 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 Creado por Luis Guerrero Ortiz Lima, 22 de Abril de 2007 3:00 PM Los hechos son por todos conocidos. Cho Seung-Hui, un estudiante sudcoreano de 23 años, entró el lunes 16 de abril en los dormitorios de la Universidad Virginia Tech, en Estados Unidos, y mató a 32 personas antes de suicidarse. En el Perú, los escolares y aún los jóvenes que continúan estudios no tienen el fácil acceso a armas de fuego que sí poseen sus pares en Norteamérica. Ese acceso libre y legalizado es considerado hoy como una de las causas principales de la masacre. ¿Lo es en verdad? En una reciente encuesta, casi la mitad de los estadounidenses cree que las leyes sobre armas deberían ser más estrictas y el 87% afirma que la violencia asociada a su uso es un problema muy serio para su país. Un tercio de ellos admite tener una en casa. También se culpa a las autoridades por no haber hecho lo necesario para detectar y reprimir a tiempo a quien consideran un desquiciado, un anormal, un loco, más aún cuando ha salido a luz su paso por un hospital psiquiátrico y su probable consumo de antidepresivos. Por eso las soluciones que hoy se promueven pasan por la restricción legal a la venta de armas, el fortalecimiento de los servicios psicológicos en los centros de estudios y, probablemente, por una mayor severidad en la selección de los postulantes, lo que podría significar barreras especiales para el ingreso de inmigrantes, como Cho. Es posible que Cho Seung-Hui, en el extremo de sus perturbaciones, haya difuminado los límites de la realidad, derribando las mínimas inhibiciones que suelen impedir a cualquier mortal pasar del odio o el rechazo -por muy justificado que fuese su origen- al acto criminal. Pero Cho era, ante todo, un inmigrante pobre. Se sabe que llegó con su familia de Corea del Sur en 1992, procedente de una zona muy pobre de Seúl, para habitar en los suburbios de Washington. Hasta entonces, no parece haber mostrado señales de locura. «Nunca podría haberme imaginado que él fuera capaz de tanta violencia -dijo uno de sus familiares. El fue alguien con quien crecí y a quien amé. Ahora me siento como si no hubiera conocido a esta persona». En otras palabras, si acaso habitaba un Mr. Hyde en el joven Cho, parece haberse despertado en Norteamérica. Cabe preguntarse entonces, de Seúl a Washington ¿Qué cambió en la vida de este joven para haber oscurecido su mente de ese modo y haber llenado de tanto odio su corazón? Sus compañeros ponen el problema en él y lo definen como un sujeto extraño, callado, solitario y perturbado, que casi no hablaba con ellos ni los miraba a los ojos. Pero Cho, desde la otra orilla, ha dejado un testimonio distinto. «Me han acorralado en una esquina y me han dejado sólo una opción, la decisión fue de ustedes» dijo en un video póstumo, para preguntarse después «¿Saben lo que se siente ser humillado y crucificado?». Más allá de cualquier hecho objetivo -la decisión de apretar el gatillo fue solo suya en sentido estricto- este joven, que le gustaba firmar documentos e identificarse con un signo de interrogación, se percibía a sí mismo como un excluido. ¿Qué tiene que ocurrir para que un estudiante solitario, atrapado en su soledad, su angustia y su depresión, pase a ser algo más que un alumno o, en el peor de los casos, un raro, en las impersonales rutinas académicas de su centro de estudios? Si la pregunta fuese hecha en los Estados Unidos, la respuesta sería casi obvia: asesinar a sus profesores y a sus compañeros. Pero si nos lo preguntáramos desde aquí, donde el acceso a armas de fuego está más restringido y la banalización de la muerte relativamente menos instalada en la cultura ¿cuáles podrían ser sus opciones? Si Cho Seung-Hui hubiese sido alumno de una universidad peruana o de algún Instituto Superior Pedagógico o quizás, con menor edad, de algún colegio secundario, pudo haber abandonado los estudios a mitad de camino y perderse en la bruma de los desocupados sin instrucción o a lo mejor terminarlos sin pena ni gloria. Pudiera ser que con calificaciones aceptables, pero con todo su dolor, su confusión y su rabia a cuestas, para integrarse a la enorme masa de anónimos desempleados con certificación académica y dudosas cualidades para desempeñarse con un mínimo de competencia y de salud mental en su vida de pareja, en la crianza de sus propios hijos o en su actividad laboral. Ocurre que los sistemas educativos están diseñados en principio para hacerse cargo del alumno, no de la persona. En el caso del nuestro y a juzgar por los resultados, lo primero lo hace muy mal, pero no lo puede eludir. Lo segundo, simplemente lo ignora o lo delega a algún tutor, cuando éste existe. Hace siete años, una joven y carismática maestra de primaria, en su primer año de ejercicio profesional, abrumada por la confianza de sus pequeños alumnos, que no dejaban de buscarla en el recreo para compartir con ella un sinnúmero de problemas de orden familiar, decidió prohibirles que le hablen de temas ajenos a la clase. «Yo me preparé para ser maestra, no psicóloga, no tengo por qué hacerme cargo de sus asuntos personales», admitió con escalofriante honestidad. Como ella, más allá de las cualidades que exhiban en la enseñanza, son muchos los docentes que no se sienten en condiciones de atender ni de entender la subjetividad de sus estudiantes ni, finalmente, en la obligación de hacerlo. De este modo, la idea de que educar es más que instruir y que supone principalmente la formación humana, como consta en el célebre Informe de Jacques Delors, en los acuerdos internacionales sobre educación, en el currículo oficial y hasta en las propias leyes nacionales, termina siendo en los hechos una extravagancia, una penosa humorada. Pero hay algo más. El sistema también está diseñado para que los aprendizajes constituyan un asunto estrictamente individual, basado en un contrato personal de la familia o del alumno con la institución educativa. Lo que significa, en la mejor tradición liberal, que el éxito o el fracaso de cada estudiante son el problema o el mérito de cada uno, donde los demás no tienen absolutamente nada que ver. De este modo y con mayor razón, los síntomas del sufrimiento de un joven como Cho Seung-Hui, evidentes antes que se produjeran los hechos, eran estrictamente un asunto suyo, a lo más de su familia, pero no una convocación a la solidaridad de sus profesores ni de sus propios compañeros de clase. Todo indica que tales señales no pasaron desapercibidas, pero todos eligieron continuar con sus vidas. Hasta que él, decidió terminar con ellas. En nuestro medio, la exclusión no tiene que ver sólo con el no acceso a un centro de estudios, sino con el prejuicio y la discriminación que se vive a su interior con insólita naturalidad. Excluidos son los estudiantes censurados y estigmatizados a diario, abierta o solapadamente, por ser pobres, por tener padres que no fueron al colegio, por pertenecer a una familia campesina, por ser los últimos de varios hermanos o hijos únicos de madres sin cónyuge, por ser además tímidos y callados o susceptibles y asertivos, por tomarse su tiempo para entender y para terminar la tarea, por haber repetido de grado, por tener su propio criterio de orden, por hablar de un modo distinto o en un idioma diferente, por haber nacido en una provincia alejada y «extraña», por expresar su desagrado cada vez que se sienten agredidos por un adulto o, simplemente, por razonar con una lógica a veces opuesta a la de sus mayores y llegar a conclusiones distintas. La experiencia de la discriminación los convierte en objeto de sospechas, rechazos y atribuciones antojadizas, de vacíos y murmuraciones, de aislamientos y desaires, de indiferencia y segregación, sea por sus compañeros o por sus propios maestros. ¿Qué hacen todos ellos con el dolor, la ira, la tristeza, el desconcierto o la impotencia que esta situación les provoca? Algunos constituyen pandillas y reaccionan con violencia, pero muchos se limitan a callarse y a expresar la frustración de otra manera, convirtiéndose en saboteadores crónicos, en nihilistas irreductibles o en durísimos jueces de sí mismos. No compran armas ni disparan contra nadie, pero sí les retiran la fe, a la gente, al sistema y hasta a la imagen que les devuelve el espejo. Como Cho, sin embargo, son vistos como anormales y tratados, por lo general, como amenazas. Los malos aprendizajes que exhiben nuestras escuelas nos han llevado a la necesidad de exigir mayor efectividad en la enseñanza, mejor calidad en la docencia, controles más sistemáticos de los resultados del servicio educativo y de las políticas diseñadas para mejorarlo. La pobreza de nuestras escuelas nos han llevado a exigir, además, mayor inversión educativa, una distribución mas justa del gasto y una compensación más efectiva y sostenida de las evidentes desigualdades. Todo eso está bien, pero... ¿Cuánto pesa en los bajos rendimientos que exhibe nuestro sistema la escasísima confianza que deposita en las posibilidades de éxito de sus estudiantes? ¿Cuánto pesa el prejuicio, la subestimación, el menosprecio? ¿Cuánto pesa la incapacidad de las instituciones educativas para hacer sentir incluidos a los que se van quedando atrás y para comprometerse con seriedad a no dejar fracasar a ninguno? ¿Cuánto pesa en la desmoralización de muchos la impersonalidad del ambiente en que se estudia a diario, el anonimato implacable, la rigidez de las normas o la desvergonzada ley del embudo aplicada con impunidad cada vez que conviene? La tragedia de Virginia Tech nos recuerda que los usuarios de los sistemas educativos son seres humanos, susceptibles de hacer «corto circuito» cuando las condiciones en que estudian los colocan en situaciones límite. Si las políticas dirigidas a mejorar la educación no son pensadas como una oportunidad para humanizar la enseñanza y no sólo para elevar los rendimientos, las sensibilidades se van a seguir desbordando y erosionándose la confianza en sí mismos de toda una generación. -- Fuente Original: El río de Parménides -Sitio en linea <a href="http://educhevere.blogspot.com/2007/04/cho-seung-hui-lecciones-para-la.html">http://educhevere.blogspot.com/2007/04/cho-seung-hui-lecciones-para-la.html</a> Derechos Reservados: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/pe/">Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Perú</a>. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carlos Albaladejo Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-19 Description An account of the resource Creado por Carlos Albaladejo 18 de Abril del 2007 10:44 am Es la frase más repetida en las últimas horas en el sector educativo norteamericano. La triste noticia de la matanza provocada por un estudiante asiático en la universidad de Virginia Tech ha provocado reacciones a lo largo y ancho del país: desde autoridades gubernamentales y universitarias hasta familiares y amigos pasando por las incontables respuestas aparecidas en tan poco tiempo en la Red. Hoy vamos a hablar de esto último, dado que la reacción en la Red está siendo abrumadora, merece la pena decicarle un post al tema. Antes de ello, es inevitable descargar esa opinión subjetiva que todos llevamos dentro, así que tendrán que perdonarme por el abuso del medio para expresar una opinión personal. Entiendo que el derecho a tener un arma de fuego es un derecho fundamental recogido por la Constitución de los Estados Unidos, y que, por tanto, la conveniencia o no de ese derecho es un debate muy difícil. Nunca ha sido sencillo poner en tela de juicio parte de una Constitución, con todas las dudas, las polémicas y las manifestaciones de uno y otro lado que se derivan de este tipo de discusones. Lo que no entiendo es por qué, ante la dificultad de echar mano al motivo que se presenta como de mayor evidencia cada vez que algún adolescente armado pierde la cabeza en EE.UU., se acaba arremetiendo siempre contra otros posibles motivos que a poco que se analicen caen por su propio peso. Me refiero a la continua acusación que se hace a los videojuegos violentos cada vez que ocurre una desgracia. En España los adolescentes también pasan muchas horas jugando a Grand Theft Auto, y ninguno de ellos se hace con un arma y dispara contra sus compañeros de clase. Sencillamente, porque en España no es fácil conseguir un arma. Recuerdo que cuando José Rabadán asesinó a su familia con una katana en Murcia se habló largo y tendido de la conveniencia de productos para adolescentes como Final Fantasy, pero el debate no duró demasiado tiempo, porque como era de esperar no se encontraron argumentos que justificaran el asesinato a través de un videojuego. Finalmente, recuerdo también las palabras de un buen amigo mío sobre los videojuegos violentos: "menos mal que existe Grand Theft Auto, si no pudiera liarme a puñetazos en este videojuego cuando algo me enfada correría el riesgo de querer intentarlo en la vida real". Ahí queda eso, de nuevo disculpen por el abuso del espacio. Disertaciones morales aparte, es hora de volver al asunto principal de este post. Resulta conmovedor comprobar la ola de reacciones que la matanza ha provocado en la Red. A pesar de que no es la primera vez que una desgracia provoca un verdadero aluvión de movimientos en la Red (recuerden que en el caso de Katrina se encontraron víctimas gracias al testimonio de algunos bloggers, o los vídeos grabados con móviles durante los atentados en el metro de Londres en aquel 7J), sigue resultando conmovedor ver cómo una gran masa de usuarios se organiza a través de la Red para expresar sus opiniones y condolencias. Por ejemplo, si entramos en Flickr y buscamos el tag "virginiatech", comprobaremos que hay una cantidad ingente de fotografías de muy diverso tiempo sobre la matanza. La mayoría de ellas ha sido publicada por alumnos de la universidad que han vivido de cerca la noticia. Collegiate Times, la publicación digital universitaria de Virginia Tech, está completamente volcado con la noticia estos días. Resulta una buena fuente de información, en la medida en que han dedicado todos sus esfuerzos en recoger reacciones a la tragedia. A través de ella hemos podido saber que en Facebook (una comunidad virtual de universitarios, pronto les hablaré de su equivalente español) se ha registrado una cantidad ingente de reacciones. Hay más de 300 grupos sobre Virginia Tech. Uno de ellos, que pide un momento de silencio para las víctimas, cuenta ya con más de 8.000 usuarios. Entre decenas de testimonios de estudiantes que estuvieron allí, encontramos también algún grupo dedicado a lanzar un mensaje positivo: "estamos bien en VT". La rapidez con la que han aparecido blogs en memoria de las víctimas es apabullante. Uno de ellos se ha llevado la palma mediática (OneDayBlogSilence), al tiempo que algún que otro diario donde su autor recogía las impresiones vividas durante la matanza ha estado a punto de morir de éxito (por culpa del conocido efecto slashdot). Mención especial merece el profundo seguimiento de la dimensión tecnológica y social de la matanza que ha realizado la prestigiosa revista Wired: en su versión digital no se les ha escapado ningún detalle. Hablan de cómo el asesino había anunciado la matanza en un sitio web de Virginia Tech, de cómo se han creado comunidades sobre VT en myspace, de cómo diferentes dominios relacionados con el nombre de Virginia Tech ya están en venta en eBay, etc. Finalmente, queda recordar el papel que los repositorios de vídeo como Youtube han jugado en esta movilización social. Según cuenta hoy el diario El Mundo, la búsqueda "Virginia Tech Shooting" en Youtube arroja 777 resultados en este preciso instante. En la lista hay de todo: desde grabaciones caseras hasta cortes de televisión pasando por reacciones en vídeo a la matanza... Definitivamente Virginia Tech somos todos, pero también es cierto que eso es lo que se dice siempre que hay un asesinato de determinada proyección social. Se lleva diciendo desde los peores tiempos de ETA, cuando Internet no tenía un papel relevante en las manifestaciones sociales. Ahora que la Red es el gran vehículo de nuestros mensajes, Virginia Tech somos todos. Potencial y realmente. -- Fuente Original: Educacion y Cultura - Sitio en Linea <a href="http://blogs.creamoselfuturo.com/educacion-y-cultura/2007/04/18/todos-somos-virginia-tech/">http://blogs.creamoselfuturo.com/educacion-y-cultura/2007/04/18/todos-somos-virginia-tech/</a> Derechos Reservados: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/"> Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5</a>. Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Title A name given to the resource Todos somos Virginia Tech blogs medios de comunicacionn periodismo ciudadano tic virginia tech you tube 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 靳 玮 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-19 Description An account of the resource 2007年04月28日18:45 《环球人物》杂志 美国弗吉尼亚州布莱克斯堡弗吉尼亚理工大学的上万名学生，自发地、神色凝重地在一块白布上签下了自己的名字，同时送上一枝枝红色玫瑰，痛悼在校园枪击案中殒命的师生。 　　4月16日，弗吉尼亚理工大学发生了美国有史以来最惨烈的校园枪击案。23岁的韩裔学生赵承熙，手持两把手枪，在两个小时的时间里，至少连开200枪，射杀32名师生，随后饮弹自尽。 　　惨案震惊了美国和整个国际社会。美国总统布什立即下令全美降半旗哀悼死难者，并亲自前往弗吉尼亚理工大学参加哀悼活动。与此同时，不少国家的首脑纷纷发来慰问电�� 　　哀悼之后，美国乃至全世界都在问：美国校园为何总是冒出杀手，为何总是出现枪下冤魂？事实上，在美国，杀手和枪下冤魂何止是校园里才有！ 　　自1963年约翰·肯尼迪总统遇刺以来，美国国内的枪下亡魂，已超过整个20世纪死于海外战场的美国人总数。美国的枪杀事件之所以像家常便饭，除了因为社会矛盾和人的心理问题外，一个很重要的原因在于"美国人就像买大白菜一样，可以随便拥有枪"。究竟是美国的"枪文化"，还是枪支管理制度出了问题？这次枪击血案，让人们看到其背后的那些人和事...... 　　仅2005年，美国就发生了1.4万起涉枪谋杀案和1.6万起枪击自杀案。对美国人来说，这是怎样的伤痛？！一旦类似4月16日校园枪击案的事件跨越种族、文化，就将对很多人、很多种族乃至整个美国社会，造成不可估量的伤害。 　　本刊特约记者 靳 玮 　　4月16日，发生在美国弗吉尼亚理工大学的枪击案，在韩裔美国人和韩国人社团中引起强烈震动。从一开始的祈祷，到后来的耻辱感，再到现在的担忧，他们的内心在经受煎熬。他们现在最担心自己可能受到美国主流社会的排挤和歧视。 　　金璐荠今年27岁，是生活在洛杉矶的一名韩裔美国人。洛杉矶的韩裔社区，是美国最大的韩裔聚居区，总人数超过50万。而整个美国则有200多万韩裔。弗吉尼亚理工大学校园枪击案发生后，他们都密切关注着案件的每一步进展。最初有消息说凶手是亚洲人时，几乎所有在美亚裔都感到紧张，韩国人也不例外。金璐荠告诉记者："我当时的第一个念头就是——凶手不要是韩国人，我不停地祈祷：&#39;别是韩国人，千万别是韩国人。&#39;"当最终确认凶手是韩国人赵承熙时，绝大部分在美韩裔和韩国人都对此表示了遗憾，同时产生了很深的耻辱感。"作为一个韩国人，我表示道歉。我觉得我需要做出道歉，因为一些无辜的人被那个和我来自同一个国家的人杀害了⋯⋯我周围的每个人，都对所发生的一切感到恐惧与震惊。大家都觉得，作为韩国人，他(赵承熙)不应该成为美国历史上最大的校园惨案的制造者。以前，美国人一般不会把抢劫、凶杀和韩国人联系起来，我担心经过这次事件，美国人会认为&#39;韩国人很暴力&#39;。" 　　金璐荠担心，"9·11"事件后，美国主流社会对阿拉伯裔社区的歧视和骚扰，会"移植"到韩国人身上。"我们有一种不祥的预感：美国人很可能从文化上来解读这起枪击案。他们会认为，是韩国文化造就了赵承熙。"金璐荠说，最近，她和身边的韩国人都尽量不去酒吧等公共场所，因为人们有可能将他们挑出来区别对待。"我怕成为被关注的焦点，也害怕在乘地铁时遭到攻击。" 　　金璐荠还告诉记者，她准备参加在洛杉矶举行的守夜活动。"尽管我并不认识赵承熙，但是我还是感到惭愧，我觉得应该为那些遇害的人做些什么。"她希望通过守夜活动，向美国人表明，韩国人也为此次惨案感到悲伤。她希望人们在谈论赵承熙的时候，不要过分强调他的民族成分。"纪念活动也是对受害者家属的一种慰籍，否则人们会问：&#39;在美国的韩国人都到哪里去了？他们为什么默不作声？&#39;我希望通过这种方式，能够改变美国社会对亚洲人的某些看法。" 　　金璐荠至今仍隐约记得，10多年前，发生在洛杉矶的那场种族骚乱。1992年，一位韩国商店老板与一位黑人男孩发生冲突，随后引发了种族骚乱。在那场骚乱中， 2000多家韩国人的商店被毁。骚乱使韩国人与其他少数族裔之间的裂痕进一步扩大。"当时，我的父母把我们家的饭馆关了，并把我从学校接回了家。"金璐荠说，"最近，我身边的朋友都担心，我们会进一步遭到孤立。" 　　与1992年洛杉矶种族骚乱发生时一样，这次校园枪击案，不但在韩国人和美国主流社会之间造成了新的隔阂，同时也在韩国人和其他亚裔人之间制造出不和谐的音符。凶手身份证实后，很多在美亚裔，纷纷设法将自己和韩国人区分开来。金璐荠说："我看到，有些亚裔人将一些图标贴在衣服上，表明自己不是韩国人。""这让我感到很痛苦。"金璐荠很无奈地说。 -- Original Source:《环球人物》杂志 <a href="http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2007-04-28/184512890822.shtml">http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2007-04-28/184512890822.shtml<a/> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 美国校园血案背后不该被遗漏的人和事 守夜活动 美国校园血案 韩裔学生 赵承熙 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 见习记者 吴晓鹏 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-19 Description An account of the resource 2007年04月19日10:48 21世纪经济报道 4月16日，美国东海岸Blacksburg小镇宁静的早晨。9点钟，弗吉尼亚理工学院教学楼204室，一个白发苍苍的老教授正从文件夹里拿出教学资料，下面坐着大约20多名学生。 　　突然，"梆、梆、梆"，巨大的声响响彻小镇的上空。205室的计算机科学专业的中国籍博士生程海燕听到了这一切。 　　程不知道这声音从何处来，但她可以确认，声源离他们很近。 　　"这声音停止了5-10秒，我们都以为是建筑施工的声音。我刚正准备讲下一个主题，那声音又响了起来。"程海燕在给记者的一封名为my story(我的故事)的邮件里说，这声音至少响了有20下。 　　坐在离门很近的学生Teresa就和程海燕一起出去看到底发生了什么。外面并没有人，2秒钟后，左边的208教室出来了一个方形脸穿黑色衣服的家伙。"最让人吃惊的是他手里竟然还握着一把黑色手枪。" 　　程海燕和Teresa转身冲回教室，这时，"梆！"，背后的枪响了。 　　"一颗子弹却从我们右耳边飞了过去，我的耳朵也被这枪响给震伤了。" 　　程海燕大声叫喊，让教室里的每一个人立刻蹲下。4个学生马上把讲台旁边的大桌子搬了过去，把门堵上。他们在地上躺着，抵住桌脚。 　　教室没有窗户。那枪手就在教室外开枪了，射击持续1分钟后，他开始推门，但被里面的学生给顶住了。教室后面躲在课桌下面的两个学生用手机打911报了警，当时有11个人在205教室。 　　枪手继续开枪，子弹打穿了门，木头和金属片到处乱飞。他又试着推了几次，依然没有成功，就朝其他的地方开枪。 　　"梆、梆、梆"，枪声一直在持续，"我唯一能做的就是在那里跪着，祈祷上帝&#39;制止他吧，制止枪手，求您了&#39;。"程海燕躲在讲台后面，近乎绝望地做着祈祷。 　　始终没能推开门的枪手终于离去了。枪声越来越远，但并没有停止，至少又响了30-40下。"太恐怖了。我们一直等一直等......外面传来几声不清晰的叫喊，只听有人在叫：&#39;把手伸过来，把手伸过来&#39;。" 　　这时，尖厉的警笛声传来，枪声也终于停了下来。赶来的警察冲进了教室，在警员们的带领下，程海燕和同学们排成一排跑了出去。她再也顾不上看看其他教室怎么样了。 　　这时，她还不知道，一个小时前看到的204室里的那位白发苍苍的老教授和他的很多学生已经离开人世。 　　跑在她后面的Lisa惊魂未定，她突然哭了出来，程握紧她的手，一起跑开了。 　　"千万别是中国人" 　　离开教学楼后，仍在惊恐之中的程海燕做的第一件事，是借邻居的电脑给丈夫和她的研究团队发邮件，"告诉他们我没事了"。 　　世界各大媒体的记者很快赶到了现场，中国的通讯社也向本国发回报道："没有中国人伤亡。"中国民众和在美的华人松了一口气。 　　但过了没几个小时，他们的心又提到了嗓子眼上。 　　美国FOX电视台发了一张照片，一个亚裔模样的人在草地上被警察制服了，CNN随后也用这张照片作为片头放了出来。 　　这引起了人们的无限联想，《芝加哥太阳时报》随后引用匿名的校方消息源说，枪击案的凶手是去年8月在上海拿到签证后来到美国的中国留学生。 　　该消息迅速在网络上流窜，从美国的校园BBS传到了中国的门户网站。 　　"听人说发生校园枪击时很惊讶。后来说死了30多人，更惊讶。再后来听说(凶手)是亚裔，心就悬到了半空中，很怕真的是中国人。"密苏里大学新闻系研究生李由描述他听到消息时反应时说。 　　"如果凶手是中国人就麻烦了，那样会有很多负面影响，"弗吉尼亚理工学院另一位研究生夏晓(音译)说，"如果是那样，中国学生在这儿的处境有可能变得困难。大家都担心可能会发生排华现象，而且以后美国学校有可能变得不倾向于招收中国学生，中国学生的签证也可能更难获得。" 　　在中国国内，上海外国语大学的本科学生们都觉得有些冤，"真倒霉，为什么是中国人，害得我们这些人好惨！"一位学生的MSN签名栏这样写道。 　　该校学生郑博宏解释说："一方面，我们对此将信将疑，从感情上不愿相信，而求证于其他报道。而由于我身边人群具有一定的特殊性，不少人希望出国，因而担心因此事影响自己前途。" 　　网民在门户网站上的积极留言，也反映了全球华人不同程度的情绪——恐惧，愤慨，还有疑惑。而这种情绪最少的，反而是处于暴风中心的弗吉尼亚理工学院的中国留学生们。 　　"当有传闻说是中国人的时候，我们都不相信，"理工学院化学系博士侯严鹏(音译)对记者说："一是那个人能买到枪，二是射击技巧很熟练，中间还装了一次子弹，中国学生一般不会有这样的技术的。" 　　但未经证实的消息还是给夏晓带来了很多麻烦。国内亲朋好友的电话一个接一个，她只好挨个向他们解释："枪手肯定不会是中国人。"当记者提出电话采访时，她也要求在网上聊，"因为电话随时都有人可能会打过来"。 　　经济系的研究生潘铮铮和他们的意见也很一致，"一开始说是亚裔的时候，我们就猜测是韩国人，中国人哪有那么大胆子做这样的事？而韩国人是要服兵役的，一个人打死那么多人，枪法很准，基本上都是暴头的，这也说明韩国人的可能性最大。" 　　潘还说，FOX电视台里那张照片中被抓的确实是一个中国人，但他并不是凶手，只是要闯进现场去拍照的学生记者。 　　人们还找到了两个博客，均属于一个名叫江伟恩的中国人。但后来这个人出面在博客上声明他不是凶手。 　　"我们现在不太敢出门" 　　对于许多人来说，那是一个不眠之夜，身在外地实习的弗吉尼亚理工学院中国籍学生左剑因为远离校园，凌晨2点还在看电视关于枪击案的报道。凶手到底是哪国人，成了人们关注的焦点。彻夜未眠的人们在等待着天亮，等待着枪手身份的公布。 　　4月17日上午9点，学校再次召开新闻发布会，表示凶手是23岁的韩国人Cho Seung-Hui，他是弗吉尼亚工学院英语专业四年级本科生。 　　时隔24小时，凶手身份的悬疑终于揭开。左剑第一时间表达了他对《芝加哥太阳时报》的愤怒，"它把没有经过核实的东西就登出来了，当凶手公布出来是韩国人后，很多人都发邮件去骂它，我们还准备捐钱起诉它。" 　　"一颗心终于落地了！"是另外一位中国留学生对凶手身份确定这一消息的反馈，她说在北美留学生的BBS上，这是大家的一致反应。 　　前述上海外国语大学的本科生MSN签名很快换成了："不是中国人。谢天谢地，希望再也不要发生这种事。" 　　在很多人看来，恐慌与担忧瞬间从中国人头上转移到了韩国人。 　　"我有一些韩国朋友，他们吓得不行了，得知是韩国人之后，他们只是一直说，&#39;怎么会呢，不可能的&#39;。"潘铮铮说。 　　事情已经发生了整整一天了，潘的韩国朋友们还处在"不敢相信，无法理解"的状态之中，他们拒绝了记者的采访申请。 　　而夏晓则表示，韩国的社团都纷纷发出声明，表示不认识Cho Seung-Hui这个人。新民网引述韩国首尔民众的话说一些弗吉尼亚的韩国人将搬离该镇。 　　对于更多的亚裔人来说，他们开始显得谨慎了，"我们现在不太敢出门......毕竟对美国人来说，东方面孔就是Asian，他们并分不清是韩国中国日本啊"，夏晓说。 　　芝加哥总领馆及中国学生学者联谊会17日下午在致当地华人学生的邮件中说：弗吉尼亚理工学院的惨案以及激起了全国范围内悲伤与愤怒的情绪。虽然现已证实凶手是韩国人而非中国人，总领馆和联谊会依然要提醒各位对自身安全要保持谨慎态度。 　　"因为对非亚裔人来说，他们并不能很好的区分各个族群，可能有人会把他们的愤怒发泄在亚洲人身上并采取一些暴力行为。所以请大家采取好保护措施，比如说呆在家或者是不要加入一些聚众的活动。" 　　对于可能引发的种族歧视担忧，弗吉尼亚州州长凯恩17日表示，枪案仅仅是个别案件，不会引发对亚裔学生的歧视，弗吉尼亚州立理工学院会继续对外籍学生开放。 　　据弗吉尼亚理工大学校园网显示，去年该校新招收21937名大学本科生、4000名以上研究生。校中学生来自35个国家，有26%的学生来自海外，他们每年的学费接近1.8万美元。由于该校以理工闻名，又是学费相对比较便宜的公立学校，因此对中国学生很有吸引力。 　　来自明尼苏达州的密苏里大学的研究生Anne Salazar在接受记者采访时表示："对于我自己来说，我不会因此而改变对亚洲族群的看法。至于我的朋友，我们谈论更多的不是怎么看待某个族群人的问题，而是可能更担心我们周围的人们，对身边的人保持警惕，睁大眼睛。" 　　"大学里平时各个国家的人相处比较融洽。这次的事件只是个人的行为，我觉得对整个 　　社区的想法和思维方式不会产生太大的影响。"理工大学中国学生学者联谊会主席薛宏说。 　　教育学者熊丙奇也注意到了在这24小时里人们的心理变化过程，"在潜意识里把罪犯和他的种族和区域联系在一起，然后给某一个区域的人贴标签，对一个种族的人产生偏见，这种思维方式只会导致矛盾的进一步激化，造成更大的祸端，引起种族冲突或者是文化冲突。" -- Original Source:21世纪经济报道 <a href="http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2007-04-19/104812817438.shtml">http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2007-04-19/104812817438.shtml<a/> Language A language of the resource zh-Hans Title A name given to the resource 美国弗吉尼亚大学惊魂：枪声里的中国人 中国学生学者�谊会 《�加哥太阳时报》 枪声里的中国人 程海燕 �加哥总领馆