30 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 Claudia Smith Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Claudia Smith Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-18 Description An account of the resource I was in college in the 1960s. During that wild decade, there were so many acts of violence that it felt like a time never experienced before and in many ways, it had never been known before. The assassinations, the war in far-off Viet Nam, the demonstrations against the war, the Kent State killings by National Guard troops, the murders on college campuses happened over and over like a horrible wave of increading disorder. With each event, we felt a sense of impending disaster build. On April 16, I had finished the very ordinary task of getting my hair cut and was paying at the desk when I noticed a silent tv screen behind the receptionist. Cutlines spilled across the images and I was so shocked that I had to ask the young woman if she knew what had happened. She reponded that there had been shootings at VA Tech. I was so stunned that I couldn&#39;t move, I wanted to watch and I wanted to leave, but I could only stand there transfixed and horrified. Because I am older and the mother of now grown daughters, I reminded myself that these were two young women the same age as those in peril on the campus in Blacksburg and I wanted to be reassuring. But shock overcame maternal instincts and I must have showed it. The other girl turned to her computer and quickly dialed up information. The other turned away from the screen and looked busy. It took me back to the shootings at the University of Texas and all of the other shocking events of the 1960s that came with less coverage but the same announcement on television...my first feelings were the same-- a sense of shock and disbelief --that I had felt then. I couldn&#39;t protect these two--or myself--from the television images and it made me deeply sad. Sad for the innocence of the students and faculty on the campus that day, sad for the parents who must have been in agony, and sad for all of us who remembered this cruelty from a time long ago. My sympathy to the Virginia Tech family. Claudia Smith Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Flashback 1960s flashback parent reaction https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/DSC00027_714f3fe7ae.JPG null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-14 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-14 22:38:46 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jinfeng Jiao Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-14 Description An account of the resource People tied yellow florets on the poles around the campus. Photo taken April 19,2007 Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Florets of remembrance campus florets remembrance https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/100_0300_e1a92f62fb.JPG null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-04-10 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2008-04-10 09:48:46 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kacey Beddoes Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-04-10 Description An account of the resource A card with each victim&#39;s name and a flower. Caption says: "This letter was sent from an Amish woman who has, herself and within her community, experienced tremendous loss. It is often individuals such as these who feel the most need to reach out to others in times of tragedy. The comments in her letter reflect her thoughts toward each of the victims and the experiences that have allowed her to feel close us as well as her thanks to all that responded after the shooting incident at their Amish school." Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Kacey Beddoes (kbeddoes@vt.edu) Title A name given to the resource Flower card amish card flowers letter perspective gallery squires https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/DSC00145_5f87a195a3.JPG null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-14 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-14 11:11:54 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jinfeng Jiao Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-14 Description An account of the resource After the shooting,people volunteered to come to campus and placed flowers and gifts around the Hokie stone memorial site to remember the victims. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Flowers around Hokie stone memorial site flowers Hokie stone memorial site victims https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/283d462ddc0e9951c4a27176c444c8bd_e20d2eba02.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-15 13:54:19 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Yucheng Ying Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Description An account of the resource People placed flowers,candles and gifts under the tree near the Norris Hall to mourn for the victims. Photo taken April 18,2007 Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Flowers around the Norris Hall the norris hall https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/2419175813_7dc6434fa3_b_be12bf0bee.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-05-02 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2008-05-02 17:18:43 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brian Sewell Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-05-02 Description An account of the resource Flowers placed at an entrance to Norris Hall on 4/16/08. Photo by Brian Sewell. -- Original Source: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/briansewell/2419175813/in/set-72157604577382666/">http://flickr.com/photos/briansewell/2419175813/in/set-72157604577382666/</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Brian Sewell <bwsewell@vt.edu> Title A name given to the resource Flowers at Norris Hall anniversary flowers norris hall https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/P1000318_c5b1c28e9c.JPG null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-03-20 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2008-03-20 18:30:53 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brent Jesiek Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-03-20 Description An account of the resource (April 18, 2007) Flowers in front of Norris Hall. Photo courtesy of Brent Jesiek. Licensed under Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Brent Jesiek (bjesiek@vt.edu) Title A name given to the resource Flowers in front of Norris Hall flowers norris hall https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/268527e23be23e9f4b93da0cef9881b5_276a30474a.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-15 14:02:43 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Na Mi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Yucheng Ying Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-15 Description An account of the resource In front of the Norris Hall,people placed different flowers there every day after the shooting. Photo taken April 19,2007 Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Flowers in front of the Norris Hall flowers shooting the norris hall 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 Editor: Xiao Jie Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-22 Description An account of the resource www.chinaview.cn 2007-04-18 16:42:35 BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao Wednesday criticized some U.S. media&#39;s irresponsible reports on the Virginia Tech shooting before finding out the truth, calling on relevant sides to eliminate baneful impact of the incident. Following Monday&#39;s shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech, some U.S. media reported the gunman was a Chinese student. Later, the U.S. police identified the gunman who killed 32 people as a student from the Republic of Korea, Cho Seung-Hui. Calling the mass shooting a "very serious" incident, Liu said it was a terribly wrong move to give irresponsible reports before finding out the truth, which had violated the professional moral of the press. The Chinese government and people are very concerned about this incident and lamented the deaths, the spokesman said, adding China expresses sincere sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims as well as the injured, hoping they will recover at an early date. Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing conveyed condolences to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice over the shooting in a telegram Tuesday, expressing sincere concern to the U.S. government and those affected by the shooting. Monday&#39;s shooting rampage is the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. history. Liu Jianchao said on Tuesday evening China is "shocked" by the tragedy and strongly condemns the violence. -- Original Source: XINHUA Online, China <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/18/content_5993865.htm">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/18/content_5993865.htm<a/> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource FM slashes U.S. untruthful reports on campus shooting china chinese foreign ministry irresponsible reports media 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 Adriana Seagle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Silvia Vrinceanu Nichita Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-08 Description An account of the resource De, Silvia Vrinceanu Nichita | 21.04.2007 <b>Focsaneanul Zvi Ben Dov, emigrat in Israel in urma cu jumatate de secol, ne-a transmis ieri amanunte despre funeraliile profesorului Liviu Librescu</b> Liviu Librescu, profesorul care si-a salvat studentii din fata unei ploi de gloante sacrificindu-si propria viata in amfiteatrul Universitatii Tehnice din Virginia, a fost condus ieri pe ultimul drum, in Israel, tara in care locuiesc si cei doi fii ai sai. La funeralii au fost prezenti si citiva focsaneni israelieni, care au copilarit cu profesorul Liviu Librescu in perioada celui de-al doilea razboi mondial, cind au fost nevoiti sa indure ostilitatea dusa pina la extrem fata de populatia de origine evreiasca. "Am participat impreuna cu prietenul meu focsanean Jack Gheber la mormintarea lui Liviu. Au fost sute si sute de oameni, rude, prieteni, profesori de la universitate, plus o delegatie special venita din Romania, in frunte cu ambasadorul Romaniei in Israel, pentru a inmina familiei ordinul national «Steaua Romaniei» in grad de mare cruce, oferit post-mortem de presedintele Traian Basescu pentru eroismul de care a dat dovada. Impreuna cu Jack, ne-am dus la Marilena, sotia lui Liviu, si ea tot din Focsani, si am consolat-o. Eu i-am inminat «Ziarul de Vrancea», care a sosit in Israel in urma cu doua zile, adus de prietenul nostru Nicu Stoinescu. I-am transmis condoleante de la grupul vostru din Focsani", ne-a transmis ieri, prin e-mail, Zvi Ben Dov, liderul focsanenilor din Israel, directorul general al organizatiei A.M.I.R. Acesta si-a ebraizat numele dupa ce a emigrat, in Focsani fiind cunoscut sub numele de Puiu Zilberman. De precizat ca Zvi Ben Dov si Jack Gheber au fost colegi cu Liviu Librescu la Focsani, inainte de a emigra in Israel. "Mama lui Jack a fost directoarea scolii evreiesti de fete din Focsani, unde a studiat si Marilena, sotia lui Liviu. L-a recunoscut si pe Jack si pe mine imediat. La funeralii am intilnit si alti prieteni focsaneni, pe dr. Fritz Scwartz, pe ing. Armand Rotenstraih cu sora lui Emilia si altii", ne-a mai relatat Zvi Ben Dov. Focsanenii care locuiesc in Israel ne-au spus ca la inmormintarea profesorului Liviu Librescu au participat zeci de jurnalisti din toata lumea, care au fost interesati de viata pe care "eroul din America" a dus-o in Romania, ca victima a regimurilor Mihai Antonescu si Nicolae Ceausescu. Reamintim ca "Ziarul de Vrancea" a relatat in exclusivitate povestea de viata a "eroului din America", care a trait din plin opresiunile antisemite la Focsani, in timpul celui de-al doilea razboi mondial, unde locuiau bunicii din partea mamei. Tot in orasul de pe Milcov, tatal profesorului Liviu Librescu, un avocat eliminat din barou pe criterii etnice, a avut domiciliu fortat inainte sa fie trimis in lagarele din Transnistria. Liviu Librescu fusese invitat sa viziteze Focsaniul in luna mai, invitatie pe care a declinat-o cu parere de rau din cauza proiectelor stiintifice in care era implicat. Sotia profesorului a anuntat ca nu se va mai intoarce in America si a multumit tuturor celor care au fost alaturi de familie in aceste momente grele. (Silvia VRINCEANU) -- Sursa Originala: <a href="http://www.ziaruldevrancea.ro/index.php?articol=11809">http://www.ziaruldevrancea.ro/index.php?articol=11809</a> Language A language of the resource ron Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Silvia Vrinceanu Nichita (silvia@ziaruldevrancea.ro) Title A name given to the resource Focsanenii au fost la mormintarea eroului din America funeraliile israel librescu prieteni https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/for_now_and_forever_vbr_11bca971a3.mp3 null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-15 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-06-15 19:41:36 Sound A resource whose content is primarily intended to be rendered as audio. 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 the Open Music Factory Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-06-15 Description An account of the resource VBR MP3 3.2M Dedicated to the Victims at Virginia Tech University - 2007, april 16th Song Info Bass: Tony Guitar: Warhorse Synth: Marika Year: 2007 Genre: Freestyle Created and developed at the Open Music Factory (http://www.openmusicfactory.com) This item is part of the collection: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio">Open Source Audio</a> Author: <a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22the%20Open%20Music%20Factory%22">the Open Music Factory</a> Date: 2007-04-27 -- Original Source: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/for_now_and_forever">http://www.archive.org/details/for_now_and_forever</a> Creative Commons license: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Title A name given to the resource For Now And Forever (April 27, 2007) instrumental music open music factory song https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/LPic-VirginiaTech_c17f621477.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-04-25 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-04-25 15:35:59 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sara Shaffer Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Johnson City Press, Ron Campbell and Sam Watson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-04-25 Description An account of the resource For the Hokies - ETSU event held in support of Virginia Tech (Picture Caption)- Bernadette Cash and Sara Shaffer sign a sheet that will be made into a quilt during the ETSU gathering in memory of the victims at Virginia Tech. (Ron Campbell / Johnson City Press) By Sam Watson Press Education Writer swatson@johnsoncitypress.com Buccaneer blue and gold gave way to Hokie maroon and orange Tuesday as East Tennessee State University sent messages of support to Virginia Tech in the wake of last week&#39;s massacre. Hundreds of students and employees gathered on ETSU&#39;s Borchuck Plaza for a noon service, many donning maroon and orange ribbons and signing banners in a show of solidarity for their peers in Blacksburg, Va. "We&#39;re just really reaching our hearts out to everyone over there at Virginia Tech," said Justin Mitchell, an ETSU junior from Memphis. "It&#39;s a really good healing exercise for us, as well, and all American college students across the United States." On April 16, Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members and injured several others in a rampage that sent a chill through college campuses across the country. The tragedy hit particularly close to home at ETSU, an institution located just 150 miles away from Blacksburg. Many students on the Johnson City campus have friends at Virginia Tech or other ties there, and ETSU employs several Virginia Tech alumni, including Mark Musick, holder of ETSU&#39;s Quillen Chair of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, who led Tuesday&#39;s service alongside ETSU President Paul Stanton. Also on the plaza Tuesday was Virginia Tech graduate Dr. Sally Lee, ETSU associate vice president for student affairs. "As an alum, I am appreciative of the response on behalf of my institution," Lee said as Virginia Tech symbols dangled from her ears. "The outpouring for Virginia Tech from other institutions has been amazing." As a student at Virginia Tech, Lee was a resident adviser in West Ambler Johnston Hall, the site where Cho began his attack by killing students Ryan Clark and Emily Hilscher. Last week&#39;s events forever changed Lee&#39;s perspective about her old dorm. "I can tell you pretty much exactly where that young lady and that RA were murdered because of the way that building is configured uniquely," she said. "That has an impact." The massacre also changed perspectives for some ETSU students. "For our students here, there&#39;s a lot of sorrow and a lot of understanding of the lost innocence and the impact it will have on that school," Lee said. "So, I think it&#39;s good for our students to have an outlet for their own emotions." To Mitchell, knowing that students his own age were killed doing the same things he does every day - attending classes - was scary. "It hurts. We really feel that," he said. "Maybe we can create more awareness so that everybody can lend a helping hand to those who feel alone, so they don&#39;t feel they have to kill." As ETSU students signed a sheet that will form part of a memorial quilt for Virginia Tech, Mitchell wrote just three words: "Cho was wrong." "I believe that they (Virginia Tech students) feel just as strongly as we do that people who are loners and outsiders should not feel as pressed against," Mitchell said. "Maybe if you are ostracized and feel that you are alone, you won&#39;t lash out against society." ETSU sophomore Deanna Stamper, an elementary education major from Kingsport, brought the sheet to campus as part of a national project organized by Alpha Phi Omega, a community service organization. "I really wanted to do it, because I have two very special friends there (at Virginia Tech) in the engineering program. Luckily, they were away at the time on a competition," Stamper said. "I know that many students want to find a way to send love to them, and this to me is a great way to do it. "I think it gives great faith back to our nation to see how strong these young people can be through this." Wearing Virginia Tech athletic jerseys, ETSU senior Sara Shaffer and her sister in law, Bernadette Cash, signed the sheet to send messages to a campus Shaffer has known since childhood via athletic events. "It&#39;s awfully close to home," Shaffer said. "My dad went to Virginia Tech. Our whole family has been going to Blacksburg since before I was even born. We&#39;re all Hokies." <a href="http://johnsoncitypress.com/Detail.php?Cat=LOCALNEWS&ID=59244">http://johnsoncitypress.com/Detail.php?Cat=LOCALNEWS&ID=59244</a> Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource For the Hokies - ETSU event held in support of Virginia Tech etsu hokies tragedy virginia tech Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Will Stewart Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-05-02 Description An account of the resource by Will Stewart, TechSideline.com General Manager and Managing Editor Apr 17, 2008 The events of April 16th, 2007 touched many people. Lives were changed and altered in various ways, from the victims to the survivors to the first responders to the university community. For former Virginia Tech running back Tommy Edwards, the aftermath of the tragedy was a call to action, to return to a place he had left years ago, to try to make a difference. Hokie fans who have come on board in the last 12 years, since the 1995 Sugar Bowl, may not know who Tommy Edwards is. In nearby Radford, Virginia, Edwards had a storied high school career that saw him amass 57 rushing touchdowns and nearly 4,000 yards in just two years of high school football. A decorated recruit, he followed his father (Kenny Edwards, a VT running back from the early 1970s) to Virginia Tech in 1992. In the 1993 season, as a redshirt freshman, Edwards scored nine touchdowns, and his future was bright. By 1995, though, he was gone, transferred out to Division 1-AA Boise State, where his college football career ended quickly. It was the pre-Internet age, and the large majority of Hokie fans were in the dark, wondering what had happened to "Touchdown Tommy" Edwards to cause him to flame out so quickly. Tommy Edwards&#39;s story is not the story of a prima donna unhappy over playing time, nor is it the story of a smalltown athlete who wasn&#39;t talented enough to make the big time. His story is about mental illness and the effects it can have, how it can derail the most promising of lives and careers. The story of Tommy Edwards not only answers the question, "Whatever happened to Tommy Edwards?" It tells you what the events of April 16th mean to him, and why he is inspired to do what he&#39;s doing today. A Promising Start As a child, Edwards struggled academically due to dyslexia, but as he matured and started to excel in track and football at Radford High School, athletics helped him gain acceptance. "I always felt like somewhat of an outcast, somewhere outside the circle," he says. "But I began to gain some recognition through track and football, and all of a sudden that opened a lot of doors, socially, for me." It also opened the way to a football scholarship at Virginia Tech. After a decorated high school career (detailed above), Edwards enrolled at Tech in the fall of 1992 and redshirted. That&#39;s when things started to take a turn for the worse. Edwards was already fragile psychologically when he entered Tech. "Some things happened to me when I was pre-school age, or even pre pre-school age, just some emotional and psychological trauma. I dealt with a number of issues when I was growing up," he says. While he was redshirting, he was stricken with mononucleosis, which was misdiagnosed at first as strep throat. When the correct diagnosis was finally made, Edwards had to quit practicing and training, and he dropped the weight he had put on. By the time spring football rolled around, though, he was back up to 215 pounds and was ready to practice. Still, the physical illness had taken an unseen toll. "I think during that period of time, my brain chemistry was just really stressed." Add in a traumatic event towards the end of the year ("I had a girl threaten to commit suicide in my room my freshman year the night before my final biology exam"), and Edwards&#39;s mental health started to decline. "That summer (1993) I was an orientation leader at Tech. I was just starting to deal with depression, and it got pretty bad at different periods that summer. I didn&#39;t have the same get up and go that I had had my whole life. I slept a lot more, and I rationalized this as going through the after affects of really pushing my body through the mono and not really giving myself a chance to really heal and get over it. I had a real desire to get back into the weight room early, and the doctors okayed it. I really wanted to get my weight back up to be competitive and try to win a spot." He was successful, and he wound up third on the depth chart entering the 1993 season, behind Dwayne Thomas and Ranall White. Edwards blew up in the first two games, scoring two touchdowns against Bowling Green (a 33-16 win), and four more against Pittsburgh (a landmark 63-21 victory). "All of a sudden I was leading the nation in scoring and was in the national headlines and all eyes were on me. That created some added pressures and things that I hadn&#39;t anticipated," Edwards remembers. The world is full of people who would handle that stardom just fine, but Tommy Edwards wasn&#39;t one of those people. "I started experiencing some anxiety. I didn&#39;t have any idea just how public my life had become at that point, and how scrutinized every move I made would be." He went on to score 11 touchdowns that season, including Tech&#39;s Independence Bowl win, but it was mostly as a goal-line specialist. The limited role wasn&#39;t what Edwards nor many people around him wanted. "There was a lot of outside influence, people just speculating why I wasn&#39;t playing, and it just became frustrating. My mental state, my emotional state, at the time was somewhat ... not perfect. Having people speculate and create negative ideas really weighed into my mental health and really caused me to start questioning the loyalty of my coaches, when they were doing the best job that they could. "Looking back on it, there were just too many influences, and I kind of got swept into it. I&#39;ve known Frank Beamer and Billy Hite for most of my life, and we&#39;ve been friends, but I had people drive a wedge between me and the people I put my trust in." The mounting pressures of college football, sudden stardom, and second-guessers exposed Edwards&#39;s emotional frailty, and his mental health started to steadily decline. "At the end of that year, I got into a fight at a fraternity house. One of my friends got jumped by a bunch of guys. I ended up getting arrested. I had always kind of prided myself on being a pacifist, and I just reacted and tried to help my friend. All those years in the weight room, and all those years on the field learning to react kind of took over, and I kinda banged some heads. "I was charged with malicious wounding, which was grossly exaggerated. The charges were eventually dropped, and I had to do some community service, but it was just really publicly embarrassing. That really sent me into a spiral that summer, and I started drinking more and more to try to cope with the embarrassment and anxiety. I really started to question who I could trust around me, and I started drinking more, and that contributed to the depression and anxiety. I just became more and more unhappy. The Last Year at Virginia Tech "Going into my redshirt sophomore year [1994], things just got worse. My depression got worse, my anxiety got worse, and I was throwing up every day before practice and during practice, like it was uncontrollable, like a gag reflex. I was really embarrassed, because P.J. Preston had gone through basically the same thing and had left the team over it. There was all kinds of speculation as to whether he was on drugs, and I didn&#39;t want to be scrutinized in the same way, so I just didn&#39;t say anything to anybody." In addition, the Hokies had a change of offensive coordinators, going from Rickey Bustle, who had orchestrated the high-scoring 1993 Hokie offense, to Gary Tranquill, who disrupted everything from strategy to play calling to team chemistry. Tranquill&#39;s regime at Tech was short (one year) and unsuccessful, and according to Edwards, it negatively impacted the players he coached, to say the least. Edwards, by his own words, became more of a recluse that season, and his depression worsened. He started having suicidal thoughts, and more than one night, he sat on the edge of his bed with a shotgun in his hands. After finishing as Tech&#39;s second-leading rusher in 1994 (115 carries, 396 yards, 3 TDs) for the second season in a row, it call came crashing down. Edwards&#39;s aunt intervened, forcing him to get therapy, but he struggled to make the appointments, or to do much of anything else. "I was incapacitated to the point where all I wanted to do was sleep 24 hours a day and do nothing. I pretty much stopped going to class. I took some incompletes and I failed a couple of classes. My family practitioner prescribed me some anti-depressants, which actually made the situation worse." Edwards knows now, having been diagnosed years later, that he was bi-polar. His mood swung back and forth from depressed to manic. While manic, "I just acted irrationally. My party antics sort of took on a legendary kind of status. I was &#39;Touchdown Tommy,&#39; and that in a way took on its own alter-ego. "I didn&#39;t feel like that person inside. I&#39;ve always been an artist and a very creative person, with intellectual pursuits and interests. But I had become this kind of cartoon character in people&#39;s minds. When I was in a public setting, especially when I was manic, I lived that, and I really pushed that to the extreme. I just wasn&#39;t right. I was sick. "I can remember after one game in either my freshman or sophomore year, and a bunch of kids were lined up to get my autograph. I really hadn&#39;t done much during the game except play special teams. I didn&#39;t even get a snap at tailback. My personal self worth was so diminished at that point that I didn&#39;t feel worthy of the attention of these kids. I felt that my life off the field was in such disorder and disarray that I didn&#39;t feel like they should respect me, or that they should want my autograph. I just wanted to crawl in a corner and die." In the spring of 1995, he quit going to practice, and he asked Frank Beamer if he could take some time off to sort things out. "I was incapacitated to the point where there were times where I just couldn&#39;t get out of bed. I tried to explain the best I could what was going on, and I told him I needed some time to try to figure things out. I was told that wasn&#39;t an option." Edwards looked for other ways out, and transferring became his focus. He looked at Boise State, the 1-AA national runners-up in 1994, and decided to go there, aided by the presence of some relatives in Boise. His family and friends were pressuring him to stick with football, and he felt a change of venue would improve things. It didn&#39;t. "The whole summer leading up to my transfer, I went through more depression swings. It was exacerbated by drinking too much and partying. "I got out there, and we were going through two-a-days, and I had an emotional breakdown after a practice. I was trying to talk to my coach and try and communicate what I was going through, and that I was having an anxiety attack. I thought I was having a heart attack at one point. He didn&#39;t know what to do or how to react to somebody just breaking down and crying on the field." Edwards was prescribed Prozac and sleeping pills. "The Prozac made me feel like a zombie, and the sleeping pills made me feel like I was on speed. When I called to tell them what was going on, they told me to just take two. That didn&#39;t work." Edwards stuck with it, but he suffered a shoulder injury that fall, and by the time spring rolled around, he gave up football forever. Life After Football He returned home, but home was a place where he was still "Touchdown Tommy," and where everyone thought he should be playing football. His depression worsened, and he abused drugs and alcohol and had several run-ins with the law. He finally gave up drug and alcohol abuse in 1999, got married in 2001, and moved to California, so his wife could work toward her doctorate at Pacifica Graduate Institute. The marriage failed, but while in California, Edwards&#39;s life blossomed. He developed a skateboard company, Sasquatch Skateboards, and his music career also took off. He opened for high profile artists and performed on television a number of times. Just as things were taking off for Edwards, he had a serious skateboard accident in 2003 and suffered a brain injury. The injury brought on extreme brain chemistry fluctuations, resulting in hyper-mania, and within six months, he had lost his business, his home, and most of his friends. In our interview with Edwards, he didn&#39;t go into great detail about these events. "I&#39;ve still had to deal with the chemical fluctuations as an adult, and sometimes they&#39;ve been more detrimental than others," he sums up. "Especially after my head injury, some things really came to light. I kind of understood myself better, as far as what&#39;s good for me and what&#39;s not. "A couple of years ago, I met a retired psychiatrist who became a friend of mine and became my mentor. He basically diagnosed me, and we worked towards non-pharmaceutical treatments through nutrition and activities. It&#39;s been an amazing journey. Difficult at times, but it&#39;s really helped me understand myself, my life, and what&#39;s valuable in my life." April 16th and The Heart of Virginia Edwards rebuilt his life in San Diego, and then came the fateful events of April 16th, 2007. He was visiting family back on the East Coast when the shootings at Virginia Tech happened. "I was visiting in Christiansburg [on April 16]. We had heard the sirens, and we thought maybe there had been an explosion at the [Radford] arsenal or something. I turned on the TV at lunch, and it said &#39;33 dead at VT.&#39; I immediately got sick. I didn&#39;t know how to respond. "I just wanted to help somehow. I just wanted to help ease the pain. I wanted to help raise money in some way, and that&#39;s where the idea of a benefit concert came from." That idea grew into something more, and Edwards founded "The Heart of Virginia Foundation." Edwards was greatly affected by the story of Seung-Hui Cho, and how an obviously mentally ill young man had slipped through the cracks and hadn&#39;t found treatment. From his own life experiences struggling with mental illness, Edwards settled on the mission of The Heart of Virginia: to raise awareness of mental health issues. "I made the decision to drop what I was doing in San Diego and pack everything and move across the country to start this," he says. "I started calling up all my contacts, and I felt there was enough interest from the entertainment world and the folks that I knew to help me feel like it was a legitimate idea, and that there would be some support behind it." Edwards&#39;s goal is to raise $2 million by April 2009 for his foundation, which will in turn donate the money to mental health services to develop, expand and coordinate programs that promote physical and mental health. As written on his web site, <a href="http://www.theheartofva.org/">theheartofva.org</a>, Edwards hopes to "create an event that changes the way we, as Americans, deal with the escalation of violence and the deterioration of mental well-being in our country. And to show the world that this senseless tragedy will not pass quietly as one in a string of violent acts, but call for change." The centerpiece of his efforts, that "event," would be a benefit concert in Lane Stadium. "If Tech doesn&#39;t want it to be in Lane Stadium," Edwards says, "we&#39;re looking at doing it in Scott Stadium at UVa, or Richmond International Speedway or Bristol ... but we&#39;d really like to do it in Blacksburg, because it&#39;s the epicenter of the tragedy." Edwards wants create something positive and long-lasting from the tragedy, something that is an ongoing force for change. He saw too much negativity from the outside world after the tragedy. "We want to create a positive perspective for the world of what Virginia means to us, especially after the negative aspects and controversy were placed by the national media. That&#39;s a trend in our society that actually contributes to more school shootings and more acts of violence." Starting The Heart of Virginia Foundation has been an arduous, complicated, exhausting task, from the very beginning. "Initially when we went out and tried to gain support, there was a lot of skepticism in what we were doing. Even moving across the country, my car broke down ten times and cost me something like $6,000, which was $6,000 more than I had planned on. It took me almost five weeks to drive from San Diego to Virginia." But he believes in what he&#39;s doing, and he relishes the challenge. "It&#39;s been an amazing process, having to surrender my own timeframe schedule. Sometimes I try to force things to happen, but then I have to stop and take a break, and let it come to me. And it has." It has been a long, hard road for the former high school star and hotshot recruit, but he has found his calling, and he&#39;s determined to see it through. This Saturday, April 19th, High Point Coffee in Roanoke will be hosting The Heart Of Virginia fund raising event with former Hokie football player Tommy Edwards. There will be live music from 4-10 pm featuring local talent such as, Kristi Emmons, Ben Hurt, Jess Pillmore, Red Mahna, Brad Archer and Donna Pearson, Randy Walker (of the Aardvarks) and the host, Tommy Edwards. In addition there will be door prizes all day and a silent auction. How can you help? Please stop by and/or spread the word. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.theheartofva.org/">The Heart Of Virginia</a> web site. -- Original Source: <a href="http://www.techsideline.com/news_archive/showArticle-3630.php">http://www.techsideline.com/news_archive/showArticle-3630.php</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Will Stewart (will@techsideline.com) Title A name given to the resource For Tommy Edwards, Things Come Full Circle football mental health the heart of virginia foundation tommy edwards https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/info_island_memorial_234224d962.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-07 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-05-07 08:08:40 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brent Jesiek Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wagner James Au / nwn.blogs.com Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-07 Description An account of the resource IMAGE: Virginia Tech memorial on Info Island in Second Life. Shrine by Perefim Cao. "FOR VIRGINIA (updated)" by Wagner James Au Story and image provided courtesy of nwn.blogs.com <a href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/04/for_virginia.html">http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/04/for_virginia.html</a> Most weeks I run coverage of real world-related events and projects in Second Life only on Mondays, but some days, reality refuses to remain confined. And yesterday, most tragically so. Last night there were many shrines and memorials to the innocent victims of Virginia Tech&#39;s savage massacre throughout Second Life, and in the coming days, likely to be more. At the moment, at least one is still ongoing-- sponsored by Info Island (<a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/95/111/33/?img=http%3A//nwn.blogs.com/nwn/images/2007/04/17/info_island_memorial.jpg&msg=Virginia%20Tech%20memorial">direct teleport at this link</a>), there is a dispenser where you can take, light, and leave a candle, and be with other Residents from around the world who have also come to grieve. Some leave flowers, or even sculptures in rembrance-- impromptu and sorrowful acts of creativity, converting grief to a more tangible expression that can be shared by all. Perefim Cao is a professional builder in Second Life, and knowing he could never reach Virginia Tech in person, created the memorial above, and made it free to all. He lingers at the shrine himself when he can, and talks to the Residents who stop by. "And then they tell me stories," he says, "about either something close to VT, or stuff that their friends went through at VT. Just chatted with a guy whose girlfriend&#39;s sister was killed... and like talked to another user who was a survivor at the Montreal shooting in Canada awhile back." He seems surprised at how this digital representation of a memorial could make plain such interconnections of sorrow. "Didn&#39;t think I would establish the connections with some of the people that I have," he tells me. [Updated 5:40pm] There is talk of whole regions and estates that will be kept in permanent darkness tonight, the world itself adjusted to suit the occasion, setting a space for candle vigils and other acts of collective mourning. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource FOR VIRGINIA (updated) memorial second life virtual 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 Dan Brekke Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-05-23 Description An account of the resource Monday, April 16, 2007 I broke down and turned on CNN to check out coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. I see there and elsewhere, without really knowing the details from this morning&#39;s mayhem, that the media are turning to the question of what it all means. With the help of sociologists, CNN bloviator in chief Lou Dobbs is going to scrutinize school shootings. It&#39;s an unspeakable tragedy, of course, and what will come to distinguish it will be the awful, heartbreaking details to be revealed over the hours and days to come. But really: does this tell us anything about any aspect of our society that we didn&#39;t know before this morning? Or before Columbine? Or the Killeen, Texas, massacre? Or Oliver James Huberty&#39;s slaughter of the innocents at the San Ysidro McDonald&#39;s. Go ahead and jump in -- you can all think of an incident that fits. I&#39;m not sure what any of these killings says, by the way, beyond the obvious: how violent the society is, how efficient firearms are at doing what they&#39;re designed to do. But regardless of the meaning, to me, these have come part of the landscape we live in, a little like earthquakes in California. You know they&#39;re coming; you know they could be devastating; but you never know when it&#39;s going to happen. Of course, unlike earthquakes, in theory, at least, there&#39;s the hope we might be able to do something to stop random massacres. After every one, there&#39;s lots and lots of talk; Lou Dobbs and his sociologists. Then -- then we move on, till the next time. Posted by Dan Brekke at 03:15 PM -- Original Source: <a href="http://infospigot.typepad.com/infospigot_the_chronicles/2007/04/force_of_nature.html">http://infospigot.typepad.com/infospigot_the_chronicles/2007/04/force_of_nature.html</a> Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Title A name given to the resource Force of Nature blog commentary https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/At the memorial_406c21fe6a.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-03-18 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2008-03-18 16:10:08 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stephanie Larson Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stephanie Larson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-03-18 Description An account of the resource This picture is of my friends and I at the memorial for the victims of 4/16. We will always remember how these people influenced our lives and they will forever be in our hearts. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Forever in our Hearts friends memorial Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sara Hood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eli Rosenberg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-15 Description An account of the resource <b>Media&#39;s responses to Virginia Tech shootings spur discussion about ethnicity, mental health, violence</b> By Eli Rosenberg Tuesday, May 1, 2007 The issues of ethnicity, mental health, and violence in American society were some of the key topics addressed yesterday at a forum organized in response to the shootings at Virginia Tech. The talk, titled "Media, Ethnicity and Public Response," was sponsored by both Student Psychological Services and the Dashew International Center, and was moderated by Elizabeth Gong-Guy and Bob Erickson, the directors of each organization, respectively. "International students and scholars have great concern about issues of violence in American society, and this event gives them opportunity to participate in the discussion of this issue at UCLA," Erickson said. He said Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16 before taking his own life, was originally reported erroneously to be an international student. A few people expressed surprise that the issue of Cho&#39;s Korean ethnicity was such a focal point of debates that took place after the issue. Gong-Guy described how she was brought to tears after listening to the apology of Cho&#39;s sister on the radio. "(It was) the idea that she was apologizing not for herself or her brother, but for all Koreans and Asians on the whole," Gong-Guy said. The discussion, which covered questions of violence, mental health and racial relations in American culture, highlighted some of the issues brought up in the media after the shootings. Most of the seven participants seemed critical of the media&#39;s handling of the shootings, particularly in the early stages of the crisis. "Media seeks to take the most sensationalized portrayal of issues in this era of 24-hour news," Erickson said. The talk also touched on the changes and debates that UCLA has experienced in the aftermath of the attack. "One of my first reactions is that it could have happened here," Erickson said. The issue of mental health particularly was presented as a problem that affects college campuses nationwide. "When something of this nature happens, it creates a ripple effect across the whole nation," Gong-Guy said. Gong-Guy also spoke about the importance of simple mental health techniques for the prevention of such events. "A lot of our efforts are focused on prevention - training students to use stress training techniques so resilience is higher, getting people to sleep better," Gong-Guy said. Erickson spoke about how the university has tried to come up with a mass communication system to alert students, workers and faculty in the event of such a disaster. Erickson also said universities have a responsibility to shift focus from students&#39; individual accomplishments to social and community involvement. "Maybe we need to look more at community involvement (in admissions)," he said, adding that UCLA&#39;s new holistic admissions process was a step in that direction. The talk, attended by a handful of people, lasted for about an hour. No undergraduate students were in attendance. While the numbers fell short of the organizer&#39;s expectations, a few people saw this lack of attendees as a positive sign. "I&#39;m really happy that there&#39;s not that many people here" because high attendance would have been a sign of grief and anxiety in the student body, said local resident Hsuan-Shiang Wu. -- Original Source: <a href=http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2007/may/01/forum_current_issues/>The Daily Bruin - May 1, 2007</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Saba Riazati <editor@media.ucla.edu> Title A name given to the resource Forum looks at current issues ethnic identity mental health ucla violence in american society Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sara AA Hood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Laura Alix Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-24 Description An account of the resource By: Laura Alix Posted: 4/23/07 So this is it - my final column for The Daily Campus. Over the past few weeks, I&#39;ve been pondering whether I should write a more traditional "farewell" column or whether I should just do what I&#39;ve been doing all along and simply give my opinion on some matter or another. Well, being the indecisive type that I do tend to be sometimes, I felt I should do a little bit of both. Bear with me, please. Rarely am I unsure of whether to laugh or be horrified, but then again, rarely do I check the news for updates on Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, and rarely do I visit Phelps&#39; Web site. For those of you who don&#39;t know of the infamous Phelps, allow me to briefly fill you in. Phelps is the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church. He and his 71 followers - about 60 of whom are related to Phelps through either blood or marriage - are best known for protesting, well, just about everything. You may recall an uproar a little while back over some religious fanatics protesting the funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq, claiming that the soldiers&#39; deaths were God&#39;s punishment for America&#39;s tolerance of homosexuality. Those protestors were none other than Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church. They have also protested the funeral of Matthew Shepard, productions of "The Laramie Project" - the play that details the death of Shepard - and various other political events. When criticized, Phelps simply invokes his First Amendment right to free speech. Phelps and the WBC have most recently made the news for their plans to protest the funerals of those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings. No, they really do not have any shame or sense of decency. Phelps has claimed that Cho Seung-Hui was hearing the voice of God and carrying out God&#39;s orders, even though he is now in hell, too. The victims, according to Phelps, were punished for not being Christian enough. Although I consider myself non-religious, I have a hard time believing that any true Christian could believe the hateful nonsense that Phelps spews on a regular basis. His group has even made their own music videos, "God Hates the World" and "God Hates America," which is oh-so-cleverly set to the tune of "God Bless America." Ultimately, though, we really cannot take away Phelps&#39; right to protest and free speech because it would be un-American to do so. The one consolation that I can offer to myself and others is we should just be grateful to live in a country so free that whackos like Phelps can enjoy the same rights as the rest of us. But it&#39;s time to move on to the more everyday stuff. The past few weeks have been extremely hectic for me, and I&#39;m sure they have been for other graduating seniors as well. I have too many projects and papers due and a serious desire to procrastinate. I&#39;ve also been forgetting what day of the week it is on a pretty regular basis, waking up each morning and asking myself, "Do I go to work or class today?" I need a break by now - I think we all do. I&#39;ve also had family members, co-workers and what feels like just about the rest of the world breathing down my neck and asking me what I&#39;m going to do after graduation. This is tricky, see, because until about eight months ago, I talked about going to graduate school or law school, and when I suddenly just dropped the subjects, I guess they assumed that I still wanted to go. I really did think I would go to law school and become a lawyer when I chose political science as my major about three years ago. Honestly, it seemed like a fantastic idea until I woke up one morning and realized that I just really didn&#39;t want to be a lawyer. Ditto on grad school - I just don&#39;t want to pursue political science anymore, and I&#39;d rather not waste the money unless I&#39;m totally sure of what I want to do. But maybe that&#39;s the whole problem to begin with. When we leave college, we are expected to know exactly what we want to do, as if this four or five year experience will help us to decide what the course of our entire lives will be. In middle school, we wondered what "the real world" would be like when we got to high school. In high school, we wondered the same thing about college. And now, well, I&#39;m just not so sure that this proverbial real world is going to show its face in my presence. Much as I&#39;m sure some of those in my life will be dismayed that I have not, in fact, charted the course of the rest of my life by now, I think that&#39;s impossible for many people. Some people have a plan, and they stick to it from start to finish - I can admire that, but I just don&#39;t think it&#39;s possible for most of us. Things change. So what am I going to do after graduation? Right now, the post-graduation to-do list consists of the following: play some more guitar, read some more Bret Easton Ellis, quit wasting so much time on Facebook, quit buying so much junk on eBay and hopefully go to Europe - or at least Canada - at some point. Every person who has asked me, "What are you going to do with a degree in political science?" has received any one of the following smart-aleck answers: be president, be a vagabond, or be on TV. I&#39;m probably going to end up going back to school again in the not-too-distant future, but right now, I need a break. Not a single one of my friends who has graduated so far has gone on to do exactly what he or she planned to do as a freshman in college - at least not yet anyway. I thought that upon graduating, that I would only miss The Daily Campus, but I&#39;ve felt more and more lately like I just might be wrong about that. I don&#39;t have the "Husky spirit," and I don&#39;t like basketball or beer pong, but I&#39;m still going to miss UConn somehow. My only parting advice to anybody reading this would be to make the best of these few years in any way that you can - and come write for Commentary. Goodbye everyone. Have a good life. -- Original Source:<a href=http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2007/04/23/Commentary/Fred-Phelps.And.A.Final.Farewell-2874465.shtml>The Daily Campus - April 23, 2007</a> Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Daily Campus Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Melissa Bruen <eic@dailycampus.com> Title A name given to the resource Fred Phelps And A Final Farewell university of connecticut https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/P1010002_1368cd9c90.JPG null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-10 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-10 16:07:08 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brent Jesiek Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brent Jesiek Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-10 Description An account of the resource A large glass display class on the first floor of Squires Student Center is filled with paper cranes. The sign on the display case reads "please feel free to take as many as you want." Many thousands of cranes were folded and contributed after the events of April 16, including as part of the "1000 Cranes @ VT" campaign. Photo taken July 6, 2007. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0</a>. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Title A name given to the resource Free Cranes blacksburg squires 1000 cranes cranes https://www.april16.vtlibraries.net/files/original/P1010004_72608294a9.JPG null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-10 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-10 16:27:05 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brent Jesiek Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brent Jesiek Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-10 Description An account of the resource A large glass display class on the first floor of Squires Student Center is filled with paper cranes. An overflow box of cranes sits on the floor to the side. A sign on the other side of the display case reads "please feel free to take as many as you want." Many thousands of cranes were folded and contributed after the events of April 16, including as part of the "1000 Cranes @ VT" campaign. Photo taken July 6, 2007. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0</a>. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Title A name given to the resource Free Cranes and More Cranes 1000 cranes origami squires cranes