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Rate Ranking ACC Units: Defensive Backs

Original at Bleacher Report external link    20 hours ago

By Jeffrey Fann Part seven of the ACC Unit rankings series looks at the rankings of the secondary units of each ACC team. Morgan Burnett of Georgia Tech is the one the nation's best safeties, and is one of the favorites for ACC defensive player of the year. 1) Virginia Tech Hokies 3) North Carolina Tar Heels

Rate Opinion: Notre Dame and the BCS: The “Notre Dame Rule”

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Wed, Jul 1

By Michael Collins 2008-09: Cincinnati (#12), Virginia Tech (#19)2007-08: West Virginia (#9), Hawaii (#10), Illinois (#13)2006-07: Oklahoma (#10), Wake Forest (#14)2005-06: West Virginia (#11), Florida State (#22)2004-05: Michigan (#13), Pittsburgh (#21)2003-04: Miami (#9), Kansas State (#1...

Rate Nebraska Cornhuskers Season Preview: Week Three vs. Virginia Tech

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Mon, Jun 29

By Andy Purvis On Sept. 19, the Cornhuskers will hit the road for the first time during the 2009 season and venture to Blacksburg, VA to play Virginia Tech. To say that this will be a monumental challenge for the Cornhuskers would minimize the actual task they face that day. VT Offense vs. the Huskers Defense

Rate Tyrod Taylor Vs Jaybo Shaw

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Sat, Jun 27

By Bobby In his first two years, Tyrod has started fifteen games with Virginia Tech, winning 13 of them. He has played in a total of 23 games. Passing: Rushing: Summary: Does this mean Frank Beamer would trade Tyrod Taylor for Georgia Tech’s backup quarterback Jaybo Shaw if he could?

Past Month

 

Rate Ranking the BCS Schools

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Tue, Jun 23

By Sean Martin 2. Illinois Fighting Illini Atlantic Coast Conference 6. Maryland Terrapins 6. Virginia Tech Hokies 3. Virginia Cavaliers ACC Champions: Miami Hurricanes 7. Washington Huskies 5. Washington State Cougars Big East Conference 5. Connecticut Huskies 1. West Virginia Mountaineers

Rate Virginia Tech Football: Taylor, Stinespring To Prove Their Worth in '09

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Tue, Jun 23

By James Hawkins For the Hokies, expectations run extremely high, and they are well-built to do it. With a strong defensive front and experience at skill-positions, the Virginia Tech Hokies have all the parts to make a convincing title run, but only if they are used to their full potential.

Rate tsl's Pre-Summer Top 30

Original at TechSideline.com external link    Tue, Jun 16

 VA Virginia Tech has earned commitments from six state of Virginia prospects so far in the 2010 class. Each one of these commits is in my Pre-Summer Top 30. The Hokies are off to a great start and are in heavy contention for other Top 30 members heading ...

Rate People & Places for June 15

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Sun, Jun 14

People & Places for June 15  VA He earned his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Virginia in 1992 and his master's from Virginia Tech in 1999. He is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accredited professional. Charles Larson has earned his ...

Rate Do or Die For Virginia Baseball Against Titans

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Sun, Jun 14

By Ben Gibson Virginia is playing in its first College World series in the history of its program. Virginia didn't just survive the "Region of Death" they rose like Lazarus. Fortunately for Virginia, Ole Miss returned the favor on Saturday. Long story short, Virginia has faced tough odds before.

Rate Are Campus Gun Bans Irrational?

Original at Politics Daily external link    Wed, Jun 10

 DC But the side that wants to allow students to carry guns on campus has rational arguments, too. Consider that out of the top five deadliest shootings in US history, two have been at college campuses -- Virginia Tech in 2007 and University of Texas in ...

Rate Use freedoms for 2nd Amendment debate

Original at Muskogee Daily Phoenix external link    Tue, Jun 9    14 related articles

 OK By Gene Policinski Nobody wants to encourage or invite another campus killing spree like the one in 2007 at Virginia Tech University, in which 32 people died and 17 were wounded. But does that reasonable concern extend to prohibiting a rally or a flyer ...

Rate IndyCar drivers to test at RIR tomorrow

Original at Richmond Times Dispatch external link    Mon, Jun 8

 VA Virginia Tech running back Darren Evans took top-rookie honors. Jason Vigilante, who guides the track and field and cross country programs at Virginia, was named East Region head coach of the year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country ...

Rate Rick Rudd named Virginia Cooperative Extension Professor of Excellence in Community Viability

Original at VT Campus Notices external link    Thu, Jun 4

Rick Rudd of Blacksburg, professor and head of the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education and interim associate dean for Virginia Cooperative Extension in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been named the Virginia Cooperative Extension P...

Year 2009

 

Rate Gun supporters say colleges trample protest rights

Original at google.com external link    Thu, May 28

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Some states explicitly ban students from carrying weapons on campus, while others — like Pennsylvania — allow the schools to set policy. But since April 16, 2007, when Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech University, ... KDBC

Rate Opinion: New Yorkers protest against gun violence

Original at Xinhua external link    Thu, Apr 16

New York Times  China The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting consisting of two separate attacks approximately two hours apart on April 16, 2007, that took place on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, ...

Rate Opinion: University community supported by increasing library funds for 2010

Original at VT Campus Notices external link    Tue, Mar 31

We are especially grateful to the members of the university community for conveying their interest in the library more widely than in their own units, and for their excellent participation in the review of resources. We are also grateful to the university administration for their affir...

Rate Search committee announces final candidates for dean of the College of Natural Resources

Original at VT Campus Notices external link    Thu, Mar 26

Dr. John Hayes serves as Chair of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida and is the Director of the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station. Prior to his service at the University of Florida, he was Associate Dean for the College of Forestry at Oregon St...

Rate Letter: Review history before you condemn it

Original at Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Online Edition external link    Thu, Mar 26

 VA The idea that Lee was the only person at Virginia Tech with racist views in the late 1800s would be, at best, ignorant of history. There is no documentation that I can find of him ever acting violently or illegally at all while as a student or a member ...

Rate Undergraduate and Prospective Graduate Student Conference to be held April 7

Original at VT Campus Notices external link    Mon, Mar 23

On Tuesday, April 7st more than 100 undergraduate students from Virginia Tech, Bennett College for Women, Elizabeth City State University, George Mason Hampton University, Johnson C . Smith, St. Augustine, University of Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University will showcase...

Rate ACC Tournament Preview

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Sun, Mar 8

By Jeffrey Fann No. 8 Virginia Tech vs No. 9 Miami No. 7 Maryland vs No. 10 NC State Winner: Maryland No. 6 Boston College vs No. 11 Virginia No. 2 Wake Forest vs No. 7 Maryland UNC's only weakness is sometimes they lack a little intensity on defense, but no one in college basketball is better in transition.

Rate Opinion: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties offers new intellectual property courses

Original at VT Campus Notices external link    Mon, Jan 26

Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (VTIP), in partnership with the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Faculty Development Institute, will offer four new courses in Spring 2009 addressing topics related to technology transfer, commercialization, and licensi...

Rate Podcast: The University Of Oklahoma Is #1

Original at Pink is the New external link    Mon, Dec 8

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By It's Trent, Bitch! Source] Yesterday I posted the good news that the University of Oklahoma Sooners became the Big 12 College Football Champions for 2008 after they destroyed the University of Missouri on Saturday and, to update the good news, it is my extreme pleasure to announce that the Sooners have bee...

Rate Virginia Tech - Team Notes

Original at usatoday.com external link    Tue, Nov 18

INSIDE SLANT Some of Virginia Tech's players couldn't tell you the ACC's tiebreaker procedures, but all of them know a Miami loss Thursday night at Georgia Tech would put them right back in the thick of the Coastal Division race. If the Hurricanes lose, the Hokies would need to win their fin...

Rate Opinion: Pittsburgh - Team Notes

Original at usatoday.com external link    Tue, Nov 18

INSIDE SLANT When Cincinnati joined the Big East to help fill the vacuum left by the defectors Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College to the Atlantic Coast Conference, someone thought it would be a good idea to "create" a rivalry between the two river city schools. After all, weren't the P...

Rate ACC Men's Basketball 2008-09 Preview, Part Three: Tigers, Wake, and the Hokies

Original at Bleacher Report external link    Mon, Nov 10

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By Daniel Damico Virginia Tech Hokies Where this team finishes in the ACC will depend heavily on how consistently Vassallo and Allen can play. There are not a lot of offensive options on this team, but there are plenty of bodies to help out defensively. Virginia Tech lost one of the best pure athletes in the AC...

Rate Weekend proves ACC not so bad

Original at accnation.com external link    Wed, Sep 24

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By Patrick Hite Coming in to this season, most people had the ACC as one of the worst BCS conferences in the country. After the first two weeks, those people looked to be right, as Clemson failed to show up against Alabama, and Virginia looked like a high school team against USC the first week, and Maryland lo...

Rate Opinion: ACC Roundtable No. 3: Youth is Served

Original at Gobbler Country external link    Wed, Sep 10

By furrer4heisman(gobblercountry@gmail.com) The guys over at The Legacy x4, a Georgia Tech blog, are hosting this week's ACC Roundtable. They deliver GT blogging often with a comedic twist. They're good, even if they don't give Virginia Tech enough credit as an engineering school.

Year 2007

 

Rate Mary Beth Pfeiffer: The Mental Health System in America is Broken

Original at Huffington Post external link    Thu, Jun 21

By Mary Beth Pfeiffer The public needs to know every step of the path taken by Seung-Hui Cho on his way to the worst school shooting in American history. And while gun laws and campus security deserve scrutiny, a central focus of investigation needs to be the functioning of the mental health system.

Rate Podcast: CRN: Attorney General Bob McDonnell on the primaries, Ed Gillespie’s resignation

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Thu, Jun 14

By Coy Barefoot Attorney General Bob McDonnell joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss Tuesday’s primaries, the resignation of Ed Gillespie as Virginia GOP chair, speculation about his replacement, the latest on the Virginia Tech review panel, and McDonnell’s plans for...

Rate Podcast: CRN: Bob Gibson of the Daily Progress on Kaine’s gun loophole closing,

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Tue, May 1

By Sean Tubbs Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about Virginia politics. This week, Governor Kaine signs an executive director to close a loophole that allowed the killer in the Virginia Tech shootings to purchase firea...

Rate Podcast: R. Kelly To Help Virginia Tech "Rise Up"

Original at stereogum external link    Tue, May 1

R. Kelly has set aside the Trapped In The Closet hip-hopera (Chapters 13-22 out via DVD this July!) long enough to be touched by, and offer support for, the Virginia Tech tragedy. Kelly's releasing "Rise Up" digitally on May 15th, with Jive contributing 100% of the proceeds to the Hokie Spir...

Rate Podcast: The Not-So-Fine Line Between Creative Writing and Disorderly Conduct

Original at Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth external link    Sat, Apr 28

Tasteless? Sure. Inappropriate for a high school classroom? Likely. But school officials were so freaked out that this honor student might suddenly go postal on them that they decided to call the police. He was arrested and now faces up to 30 days in jail for what he wrote.

Rate Opinion: Mean Time Between Failures

Original at PBS external link    Thu, Apr 26

Last week's shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech brought back memories for me -- memories I would rather had remained forgotten. Twenty-five years ago I was teaching at Stanford University and one of my students was clearly disturbed. I don't want to dwell too much on the details, but from the...

Rate Podcast: CRN: Republican Shaun Kenney and Democrat Mark Bergman discuss state politics

Original at cpn (Feedburner) external link    Tue, Apr 24

By Coy Barefoot Shaun Kenney is with the Virginia Republican Party and Mark Bergman is with the Virginia Democratic Party. They join Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss state politics in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre last week. Kenney says it’s important to avoid using t...

Rate Professor Fired Over Va. Tech Discussion/DemonstrationVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Outside The Beltway | OTB external link    Mon, Apr 23

By Steven Taylor The five-minute demonstration at Emmanuel College on Wednesday, two days after a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus, included a discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public’s “celebration of victimhood,” said the professo...

Rate Alexander Cockburn Has a Posse

Original at Hit and Run external link    Mon, Apr 23

By bdoherty@reason.com (Brian Doherty) Five years ago Peter Odighizuwa a 43 years old Nigerian student killed three faculty members at Appalachian Law School Dean with a semi-automatic handgun, but before he could wreak further carnage two students fetched weapons from their cars, challenged the murderer with guns levell...

Rate Opinion: Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Nationwide Day of Repentance for/from Violence?

Original at Huffington Post external link    Sun, Apr 22

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow Shalom, salaam, peace -- Arthur Rabbi Arthur Waskow, co-author, The Tent of Abraham; director, The Shalom Center, which voices a new prophetic agenda in Jewish, multireligious, and American life. To receive the weekly on-line Shalom Report, click on --

Rate Opinion: Steve Rosenbaum: Imus, Virginia Tech, and Kurt Vonnegut

Original at Huffington Post external link    Sat, Apr 21

By Steve Rosenbaum At the same time, the tragedy at Virginia Tech was another consumer media moment that reflects a change in the way we make, share and consume media. I first heard about the shooting in a Google News Alert. The first video I saw was on a web site called Daily Motion (a French video sharing site) an...

Rate If Only Virginia Were More Like New York

Original at Hit and Run external link    Fri, Apr 20

By jsullum@reason.com (Jacob Sullum) It's hard to have a fruitful discussion of whether gun laws should be changed in light of the Virginia Tech massacre without knowing what they currently require. But if you're hoping to bone up on the subject, do not rely on The New York Times, which yesterday reported:

Rate Podcast: Is Obama a gasbag?

Original at Althouse external link    Fri, Apr 20

By Ann Althouse I'm reading this commentary from Charles Krauthammer, about the things Barack Obama said on the day of the Virginia Tech massacre: I]t is simply dismaying that a serious presidential candidate should use it as the ideological frame for his set-piece issues.

Rate Dr. Peter Breggin: The Real "Mental Health Lessons" from Virginia Tech

Original at Huffington Post external link    Thu, Apr 19

By Dr. Peter Breggin The answer to vengeful, violent people is not more mental health screening or more potent mental health interventions. Reliance on the whole range of this system from counseling to involuntary treatment failed. There is not a shred of scientific evidence that locking people up against t...

Rate A Student's View on the Virginia Tech Shootings

Original at Blogcritics external link    Thu, Apr 19

By CallmeMaddy I'm a sophomore in a High School in California. It's a public school, but rated second best in the state, academically. It's an open campus, so virtually everyone can get on campus. I remember one time there was a group of students visiting from a high school from a neighboring community. They w...

Rate Opinion: On Fighting Back

Original at Winds of Change.NET external link    Wed, Apr 18

No, I do not blame the victims in Virginia. The only person to blame is an insanely evil young man who isn't here to receive his just punishment. So thanks for playing, Anne-Marie, and please go back and comment on things you actually know something about, like what midlevel Washington wanna...

Rate Nancy Snow: Virginia Tech Teaches, The World Preaches

Original at Huffington Post external link    Wed, Apr 18

By Nancy Snow Le Monde, which once editorialized "We are all Americans" after 9/11, said: "The slaughter at Virginia Tech University forces American society to once again confront itself, its violence, the gun fetishism that preoccupies part of the population and the dissoluteness of young peopl...

Rate Podcast: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time?

Original at Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth external link    Tue, Apr 17

I was reading some of the public comments on the Talk of the Nation blog regarding yesterday's shooting at Virginia Tech, and saw a quote from someone responding to President Bush's remarks on campus today. First, here's what Bush said: It's impossible to make sense of such violence and su...

Rate Podcast: Surely, the Righteous do walk among us.

Original at Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. external link    Tue, Apr 17

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I say to you, "Professor Liviu Librescu" Surely a Righteous Man. I see there *was* at least one sheepdog at Virginia Tech yesterday.. Instructive who it was, too. As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 75-year-old su...

Rate Podcast: We Need Emergency SMS Broadcasting Tools NOW!

Original at Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth external link    Tue, Apr 17

At minimum, the campus should have had an emergency PA system. I don't care if you want to use shootings or tornados or any other excuse for making the investment, but every campus in America should have a basic PA system for any potential civic emergency.

Rate Opinion: Reporters rely on blogs for info from shooting scene

Original at Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business and culture of innovation external link    Tue, Apr 17

By Richard K But the fast-moving events and the information vacuum may have created some craziness. The LiveJournal blog of Wayne Chiang - with dozens of photos of him with LOTS of guns convinced many they had ID'd the shooter, according to ABC's Richard Esposito: Right now pretty much the Internet th...

Rate Podcast: Virginia Tech shooting discussionVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Things That ... Make You Go Hmm external link    Mon, Apr 16

By TDavid via The Denver Post: A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus today, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.

Rate Podcast: Eerie Video of Virginia Tech Recorded 12 Days Before Shooting

Original at Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth external link    Mon, Apr 16

Click To Play I was searching around for video recorded today during the Virginia Tech shooting by citizen journalists and instead found this video. Entitled VTwalking, it's described as "An existenstialist (sic) take on walking around Virginia Tech's campus."

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