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By ACC SEC Blog 2. North Carolina bounced back finally with a win over Tobacco Road rival NC State. This team has too much talent (and we know they have the coaching) not to make the NCAA Tournament. I would be shocked if they finished below 8-8 in the league.

By Zach Crizer and Liana Bayne, news staff Neighbors, family and newfound friends filled a Roanoke street corner with candlelight, prayers and music Friday night, trying to help fill the void left by the loss of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington.

By Paul Seaver Maryland (14-5, 4-1) (ACC) Virginia (12-6, 3-2) (ACC) Virginia Tech (16-3, 3-2) (ACC) Richmond (15-6, 4-2) (Atlantic 10) West Virginia and Connecticut are coming up for Rick Pitino and Co. Seton Hall (12-7, 3-5) (Big East) Marquette (12-8, 3-5) (Big East)

Oct. 27, 2009: As the FBI continues to look for missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, TODAY’s Meredith Vieira talks to her parents. Today show The Harringtons were uncommonly close to their daughter, who had spent the day leading up to ...

By Claire Sanderson, news staff writer The Asian and Asian American community at Virginia Tech will be the focus of today's 13th Annual Diversity Summit.

By Brett Kettyle I was born in Richmond, Virginia, and am currently attending Virginia Tech where I am majoring in both Economics and Finance. First, at the time, the Braves AAA club was in Richmond (although as many of you know they just recently moved).

Dear Hokies, Kim Timpany Associate Director of Leadership Development, University Unions & Student Activities (UUSA) 319 Squires Student Center (0138) Blacksburg, VA 24061 540/231-4065 timpany@vt.edu http://www.uusa.vt.edu/aboutUs<

On Friday, January 29th, Virginia Tech will host its 13th Annual Diversity Summit from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. in Commonwealth Ballroom in Squires Student Center. Due to the potential for winter weather, the Diversity Summit will proceed as scheduled and will conclude early if the University o...

The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Man and Woman of the Year Awards recognize two graduating students who have achieved overall excellence during their undergraduate careers at the university. They are the most prestigious non-academic undergraduate awards given at Virginia Tech, an...

Virginia Tech's German Club will be hosting its 117th Annual Midwinters Dance in the Squires Commonwealth Ballroom from 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 6, 2010. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the UUSA Ticket Office in Squires, online at www.midwinters.com, or from any Germ...

By Kevin Burke The Opponent:  Boston College is coming off a stunning 17-point comeback against Miami Tuesday night. The 79-75 win was the first in the last four games for the Eagles, who had lost three straight to Duke, Clemson, and Maryland. BC has good wins on the season over South Carolina and Michigan...

VOTCH is a service of University Unions & Student Activities (UUSA). UUSA, a unit within the Division of Student Affairs at Virginia Tech, complements the academic program by providing a variety of activities, educational opportunities, programs, facilities, and services that...

By JB McCandles Boston College is coming off an impressive and much needed road win at Miami and is hoping to bring that type of play with them to Blacksburg when they take on the 15-3 Virginia Tech Hokies.  This should be a very exciting game. BC and Virginia Tech split the season series last year, but in th...

Earlier this month, former Governor Kaine announced the results of the Green Commonwealth Challenge in which Virginia Tech placed third among state agencies. Congratulations to you all for rising to this challenge. Virginia Tech has made great strides in recent years implementing var...

Les Mills BODYPUMP™ is being added to the Virginia Tech Recreational Sports group exercise class line up. Les Mills BODYPUMP™ is a non-impact weights-based exercise class that works every major muscle group in the body using weights, a bar and a step. It strengthens, conditions and tones...

By Kevin Burke Q:  The Roanoke Times said “If football coach Frank Beamer is the leader of the Hokie Nation, and assistant coach Bud Foster is the Minister of Defense, then some might call Roth Tech's Secretary of State,” and Frank Beamer has said “When you hear his voice, you immediately think Virginia...

By Kimberley Nash In his final season as Virginia Tech's defensive line coach, the Hokies went 10-2 and defeated Texas in the Sugar Bowl 28-10, holding the talented duo of Ricky Williams and Shon Mitchell (who averaged 207 yards per game for the season) to only 77 yards. 

By Marcus S I am sure fans of the SEC will find reasons to validate the SEC as being deserving of the consideration they are given by pollsters every year.  If the conference is so dominant why duck tough out of conference games to play teams like Charleston Southern and Memphis?  I don't think the gap be...

The Big East Presidents learned their lesson that when the Big East lost Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech, they had to add South Florida, ... and more »

By Ben Gibson With all these problems, it is little wonder that Virginia ranked last in the ACC in scoring offense. Recruiting for the University of Virginia is not a simple task.  The strong academic requirements combined with their recent losing seasons have certainly dampened the Cavalier spirit t...

Three lessons shaping society after Virginia Tech massacreChristian Science Monitor Virginia Tech: 2 staffers warned families firstNewsday (subscription) Report on Virginia Tech Shooting Finds Notification DelaysNew York Times

If it becomes necessary to close the Blacksburg campus because of inclement weather or an emergency, University Relations will use the following communications channels to announce the decision: For information about whether the Blacksburg campus is open or closed, employees and c...

By CW about : In this photo made Oct. 3, 2009, Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen, left, celebrates a touchdown against Washington during an NCAA college football game in South Bend, Ind. Clausen isn't the same quarterback who walked out of the Los Angeles Coliseum seven games ago following U...

By Zachary Osterman That being said, it's going to be tough for the Yellow Jackets to go up by more than one score on the Hokies early in this one.  I would be surprised if the Hokies get down by double digits, and less surprised if they make a ramblin' wreck out of the Georgia Tech defense.

By Alex Ferguson Texas beat Colorado by a mile on paper, but looked terrible in practice, while Virginia Tech really did beat the crap out of Boston College. Virginia Tech is the third best team in college football right now. Sorry Longhorns! 1. UCLA. Actually makes you WANT to show up early in the UCLA student s...

By Chris Harring If defense won championship's then Virginia Tech would have a lot of them, but they don't have any national titles.  The Hokies will need to play a complete game on both sides of the ball. Miami is a more athletic and talented team than Virginia Tech, and, frankly, always have been.  Virginia T...

By John Gilmer In the 2004 recruiting class, Virginia was the runner-up for three 4-star receivers, and it still hurts to this day.  (FYI… of the three receivers, Dwayne Jarrett and Eddie Royal had tremendous college careers and are playing in the NFL, while Doug Dutch did nothing at Michigan.)  It’s abo...

By Scott Glesner The Big East would be quite strong with WVU, Miami, VT, BC, and Pitt. However, I'm not sure if BC and Virginia Tech would have had as much success.  Virginia Tech has gained some recruiting power in North Carolina with the ACC affiliation. VT and Miami would not be as strong as they would be on t...

By ACC SEC Blog To get more insight into the Cavaliers prospects this year, I talked with the head of From Old Virginia. What is your prediction for Virginia this year and do you think they will go to a bowl? Thanks again to From Old Virginia for their insight.

By Justin Cocchiola Tyrod Taylor arrived at Virginia Tech with huge expectations. He decided to attend Virginia Tech over the University of Florida, and the fact that he was a five-star quarterback from Hampton, Virginia drew comparisons to another great Hokie from that region—Michael Vick.

By Jeffrey Fann Over the last several weeks, we've been looking and ranking the different units for each ACC team. Now we are going to rank the teams going in to the 2009 season. It's should be a great season, as I can see as many as eight ACC teams spending time in the AP and Coaches Top 25 polls. Can anyone stop the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

This moving video of the candlelight vigil at Virginia Tech was posted on Planet Blacksburg by Tim Leaton. Along with being a moving tribute to the lives lost this week, it's also a demonstration of the power of online video editing tools. The video was edited using Jumpcut, a website that wo...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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."