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By Jeff Pencek A victory in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl isn’t really going to clear up this cloud of horrible events. It might provide a few moments of cheer. Virginia Tech basketball making the NCAA tournament would allow for some excitement around campus, where students hand out brackets.

She had trained on "active shooter" scenarios after the April 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech University. She didn't wait for backup. As she approached the squat, rectangular building, a soldier emerged from a door with a gunman in pursuit.

He was an undergraduate at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and graduated with honors in 1995. Contrary to earlier reports, a statement released by Virginia Tech said that he was not a member of any ROTC ...

Sunday, November 8, 2009 – New River Valley Mall (Christiansburg, VA) Monday, November 9, 2009 – Squires Plaza and Drillfield Tuesday, November 10, 2009 – University Mall, University Center Blvd. Wednesday, November 11, 2009 – Tanglewood Mall (Roanoke, VA)

By James Crytzer Atlantic Coast Conference: Nine Automatic Bowl Tie-ins Virginia Tech (5-3): All the Hokies need to do is win one game and they'll be bowling. They play East Carolina, Maryland, NC State, and Virginia. Projection: Hokies would need to face plant to miss a bowl. They won't.

The article is written monthly by Hal Irvin, associate vice president for human resources. This month's article focuses on the effort of the Hokie Wellness program to provide the seasonal flu shot and the H1N1 flu shot to Virginia Tech employees.

On November 18 from 6:00-9:00pm, the Virginia Tech Rescue Squad and Blacksburg Fire Department will be conducting a motor vehicle collision simulation on Smithfield Road. The exercise will cause closure of both lanes of Smithfield Road between the equine center and the Plantation Roa...

By Wade Peery The weekend got off to an interesting start as the unranked North Carolina Tar Heels shocked the 14th-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies in Blacksburg. UNC kicker Casey Barth nailed two field goals in the final three minutes of the contest to lift the Heels (5-3 overall) to the 20-17 victory.

By Dan Kelley Another once highly ranked team whose conference title hopes took a hit this weekend was formerly No. 13 Virginia Tech who lost to unranked North Carolina 20-17. 6) TCU (8-0) 9) LSU (7-1) 23) Virginia Tech (5-3) Dropped out: West Virginia (21), South Carolina (22), Mississippi (25).

Also included in the video are presentations from Dr. Jerry Niles, Dean Emeritus in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and Dr. Gene Deisinger, the new Deputy Chief of Police and Director of Threat Management Services. Dr. Niles and Dr. Deisinger presented an overview of the Threat...

Virginia Tech’s Panhellenic Council welcomes female students to participate in sorority recruitment this October and November. Students interested in Greek life have the opportunity to attend events and meet other Greek women to determine if a sorority is right for them. The Panhelle...

By ACC SEC Blog The ACC, long a basketball-first conference, has not sniffed the BCS Championship game since 2000, when Florida State faced Oklahoma. Outside of Virginia Tech's win last year in the Orange Bowl, the ACC was 1-9 in BCS bowls, with the lone win coming 10 years ago. 

By Charles Anderson Virginia Tech's submission after the Georgia Tech game was considered a standard number of plays to have reviewed. Georgia Tech submitted a few of their own. But until this issue was made public by Frank Beamer, nobody said word one about it.

Virginia Tech Relay For Life is a program of the Student Government Association (SGA) at Virginia Tech and a member of the South Atlantic Division of the American Cancer Society. The SGA is advised by the Student Activities department of University Unions & Student Activities.

By Zachary Osterman Still, Virginia Tech's second visit to Atlanta this season presents each of these teams with an attractive opportunity. If Georgia Tech wins, they insert themselves firmly back into the ACC Coastal—and BCS—picture(s). If Virginia Tech wins, the Hokies all but sew up another trip to the A...

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...

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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...

The Threat Assessment Team Virginia law and Virginia Tech policy both require the institution to have a threat assessment team to identify, assess and intervene with individuals whose behavior poses a threat to the safety of the campus community.

By Justin Cocchiola Virginia Tech came in to 2009 season with high expectations, and many fans felt, and still feel, that the Hokies have a shot at the national title. 1. Virginia Tech didn't take the game seriously enough 3. The Hokies are settling for Conference Titles

By Kriston Capps Virginia Tech vs Alabama: One of the best games of the evening -- following #3 Oklahoma's ego-crushing loss against #20 Brigham Young University -- resulted in a respectable loss for #17 Virginia Tech against #5 Alabama. The game wasn't beautiful by any means: Both teams suffered two tur...

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 Zach Crizer, news editor Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds sent a letter to families affected by the Virginia Tech shootings, saying he will "support efforts" to share Seung-Hui Cho's newly discovered mental health records with the Virginia Tech Review Panel.

By Larry Burton Taylor has a history of ankle injuries and by all indications will take some hits because of the offensive line, any injury could simply end the day for the Hokies. Secondly, Va. Tech's quarterback's mobility could be a problem for the Tide.

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 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 --

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:

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 Xeni Jardin Previously on BB: VA Tech: Cho sent "multimedia manifesto" to NBC; Siva on tech judgement rush VA Tech shootings: world perspective VA Tech shootings: SMS alert systems, more "copycat" discussion VA Tech shootings: Wikipedia, federal drug records database VA Tech Shootings: Cho Seu...

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...

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."