[SuperJon]

My high school's doing the same thing this year. A few of the girls had to buy second dresses because they were afraid their first one was too revealing.

[belcherboy]

Names of the victims are coming out. Doing searches on myspace and facebook is surreal. With technology today, it really puts a face and gives an insight to the victims. Here is the list so far released this morning.

Maxine Turner
Vienna, Va.
Senior, Chemical Engineering

Henry Lee
Roanoke
Freshman, Computer Engineering

Matt La Porte
Dumont, N.J.
Freshman, University Studies

Jamie Bishop
Instructor, Foreign Languages and Literatures (German)

G.V. Loganathan
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Juan Ortiz
Graduate Student, Civil Engineering

Jarrett Lane
Narrows
Senior, Civil Engineering

Ryan Clark Columbia County, Ga.
Senior, Biology, English, Psychology

Leslie Sherman
Sophomore, History and International Studies

Caitlin Hammaren
Sophomore, International Studies and French

Liviu Librescu
Professor, Engineering Science & Mechanics

Kevin Granata
Professor, Engineering Science & Mechanics

[4everfsu]

The one professor Liviu was reported on Fox today was a holocaust survivor who held the door shut with his body as his students escaped out the classroom, giving his life for them.

Also imagine the professors who takes over teaching the deceased professors classrooms in the coming days. That will have to be hard and emotional.

[belcherboy]

Unfortunately a friend of mine, Brian Bluhm, seems to be among the dead. I believe he had a graduate class for Advanced Hydrology with professor Loganathan, who has been confirmed as among the victims. I never knew him personally, but talked with him a few times a week on another online message board about Detroit sports. No one on the message board has heard from him and others have heard that he was among those shot. I can't remember if he claimed to be a believer, but I think I remember discussing it with him. I hope he made that choice!!!

This is so unbelievably sad.

[bigsmooth]

wow belcher...it is a small world! my pryers are out to his family as well. the presser has not started yet, but should any minute now.

[whmatthews]

Blaming Charlton Heston

With a view to Monday's deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, European newspapers are blaming the lack of gun control measures in the United States and implying that Charlton Heston is indirectly responsible for the scope of the killings.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1 ... 86,00.html

[LUconn]

I hate Europe.

[Libertine]

Having been involved at a school shooting,

not to try and take away from the tragedy of today, just explaining.

Sure. The phrase was kind of just left out there so I was curious.

[bigsmooth]

Shooter at Tech massacre identified; 9 hospitalized; victims named
The Roanoke Times
9:34 a.m.

The shooter in yesterday's Virginia Tech massacre was identified this morning as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a senior English major who lived on campus, said Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum.

Cho Seung-Hui, a South Korean of Centerville, Va., lived in Harper Hall, Flinchum said. Cho was a permanent legal resident of the U.S., Flinchum said.

Results of ballistic tests conducted at a federal lab in Maryland overnight confirmed that the same weapon was used in both on campus shooting events on Monday, a detail that proves they incidents were related, Flinchum said. Flinchum said police recovered two handguns from yesterday's massacre, a 9 millimeter Glock and a 22-caliber.

the rest of the story from the roanoke times.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/113294

[Libertine]

This is probably a topic for another thread but the Europeans don't have a leg to stand on in the gun control argument. Within the last century, a couple dudes named Hitler and Stalin cut that leg off at the knees.

And, contrary to that idiot Moran's comments last night on Nightlline, violence like this is not limited to America. There's whackos all over the world.

[4everfsu]

Who cares what the European say. Wait until Iran starts hurling missles toward them and see what they think of the US then.

[Cider Jim]

An English major? I thought those were the passive, sensitive, & gentle guys:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech. ... index.html

[RagingTireFire]

English majors are the unstable guys. Completely caught up in the vast unappreciated drama of their own lives.

Also, Religion majors.



Kidding.

Mostly.

[LUconn]

you have GOT to be kidding me. Guess who's planning on going down to Blacksburg

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

These people are the bottom of society

[thepostman]

you have GOT to be kidding me. Guess who's planning on going down to Blacksburg

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

These people are the bottom of society

Oh my freaking word!!! This ticks me off so much!!! I don't understand these freaking people...I am just completely speachless

[SuperJon]

If LU ever stood up for anything, it should be against these people calling themselves Christians.

[whmatthews]

It's blocked by the Liberty network.

[thesportscritic]

It's blocked by the Liberty network.

well at least i will find out what this site is about when i get off campus today.

[thepostman]

If LU ever stood up for anything, it should be against these people calling themselves Christians.

I agree 100% I don't get this angry over anything...but when people paint God in way they do I get VERY VERY angry....

[RagingTireFire]

Guess who's planning on going down to Blacksburg

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

Or not kidding at all.

[SuperJon]

If LU ever stood up for anything, it should be against these people calling themselves Christians.

I agree 100% I don't get this angry over anything...but when people paint God in way they do I get VERY VERY angry....

It's a short drive, someone will come up with something.

[Sly Fox]

It's blocked by the Liberty network.

Here you go ...

[Cider Jim]

The "God Hates America" folks are on Wikipedia, which isn't blocked by the LU filter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Hates_America

[thepostman]

If LU ever stood up for anything, it should be against these people calling themselves Christians.

I agree 100% I don't get this angry over anything...but when people paint God in way they do I get VERY VERY angry....

It's a short drive, someone will come up with something.

I am not one that normally is into protests or that kind of thing, but I just don't want any of these families to think this is how real Christians are...I am sure out of the many that have died some were not Christians, and families aren't Christians, and instead of reaching out and showing love these people are completely twisting the Bible simply because they hate gay people so much....everything bad that happens is because of gay people....sure God allows things to happen for a reason, and God only knows that reason, but its not because he hates us....

[SuperJon]

I'm the same way, but with us being a huge Christian university, they're coming in our territory. Something should be done to show these families what real Christians are like.