Apr 17th, 2008 · It has been one year since Virginia Tech student Seung-hui Cho shot and killed 32 students and faculty before turning the gun on himself. Since then, colleges nationwide have sought to bolster their health services in an attempt to identify troubled students before they do harm to themselves and others.
Apr 16th, 2008 · It was one year ago when a student at Virginia Tech gunned down 32 of his classmates and professors in a nightmarish killing spree. At the Blacksburg campus, students, administrators and residents gather to honor those who died.
Apr 16th, 2008 · Richard Shryock, Virginia Tech's chairman of foreign languages and literatures, lost two faculty members and 15 students in his department in last April's shootings. A year later, he's planting trees in quiet reflection over their loss.
Apr 7th, 2008 · The Washington Post won six Pulitzer prizes, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.
Feb 29th, 2008 · The Internet gun dealer who sold gun accessories to the Northern Illinois University campus shooter Stephen Kazmierczak and a gun to Virginia Tech campus killer Seung-Hui Cho is launching a new Web site. Gundebate.com is a forum on how to improve public safety and reduce gun violence.
Feb 15th, 2008 · The Virginia Tech massacre last year prompted schools and universities across the country to rethink their security procedures. Melissa Block talks with Darcie Shinberger of Western Illinois University in Macomb, which recently instituted a new campus-wide emergency alert system.
Dec 20th, 2007 · Prospective gun buyers with mental health problems will be easily flagged due to passage of a long-stalled bill inspired by the mass murder at Virginia Tech. The bill requires notifying a person disqualified from buying or possessing a gun, and when someone has been cleared of that restriction.
Oct 27th, 2007 · College administrators are finding that students are not rushing to sign up for cell phone text-message alerts. After the Virginia Tech shootings last spring, many campuses felt this was the answer to keeping their students alert to danger, but students don't share their concerns.