browski wrote:
"years ago"? It happened in Jan 07. A year and a half isn't "years ago".
Try counting again.
browski wrote:
"years ago"? It happened in Jan 07. A year and a half isn't "years ago".
Try counting again.
Murder is a natural part of humanity and is to be expected. God designed murder to be done when necessary. The Holy Bible says so. Jesus approves of murder. Hitler, Stalin, W. Bush, etc. are God's messengers.
lol. Yeah, I actually realized this when I was out running. I hope my landlord doesn't mind that I dated my rent check 28 Aug 2008.anton chigurh wrote:
browski wrote:"years ago"? It happened in Jan 07. A year and a half isn't "years ago".
Try counting again.
This doesn't really surprise me. I graduated from VT back in 1990 and I saw some problems that showed the president just didn't get it. One of my friends died in a car accident. This would not have happened if the administration had been doing their job. I also had a coupld of friends that failed out. It is just not a good and caring school.
Waaa, waaa, waaa.
Why don't you shonuff stick your head in the sand? Oh wait, you shonuff already have. You VT people are shonuff self consumed you shonuff don't even see the writing on the wall or as terrible as it may sounds, the blood on the walls.
Have they caught the shooter?
Any word on an arrest?
I got into a fender bender in my school's parking lot today, with another student. It was the school president's fault.
Off with his head!!
word on campus is they are looking at 2 other students.
Sorry for showing up to the convo late but this thread caught my eye. I just graduated from this place and it is absolutely bad news. No one should let their child go here. THERE HAS BEEN A MURDER ON THIS CAMPUS EVERY YEAR since this tragedy.
The school has done everything they could to cover up the truth. The bullying on the campus is the worst I have ever seen. And the kid Cho? He was bullied. Many of the faculty members who know the truth have tried to speak out. Not much had changed. If you are not white and do not come from a household income fo $200K, you will not stand a chance. This school is absolutely horrible. There will be more tragedies there. It is the school. It is the culture. They do not like having all of the murders in the papers BUT PARENTS NEED TO KNOW.
Virginia Tech is a horrible school.
The 2009 double murders are still unsolved, and then there was the beheading by a graduate student, the couple that murdered the 13 year old girl, and at least one more murder, in addition to the massacre of 32 by the mentally ill student who should have been stopped well before. That is a pretty frightening number of incidents for a place like that. Overall, however, Virginia Tech actually has a very low violent crime rate compared to many schools, about a 1/3 of the most violent schools. The top ten in violent crime here includes schools like Harvard (#3), Berkeley, Illinois State, Penn State, and Michigan. At some of those schools, violent crime overall is high because of rape, at others because of assault. I would assume that much of that at places like Penn State is fueled by alcohol and drugs at campus parties. At places like Harvard and Berkeley, the high # of reported rapes may in part be due to a greater likelihood of reporting them. But murders are rare even at the big city schools.
https://lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/crime/campus-crime-2015-large-school-data/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/21/virginia.tech.death/index.html%20
VT Alum wrote: After that, every incident in Blacksburg has been connected to the 2007 murders. Two years go by and a recent immigrant violently murders another recent immigrant. Neither seem to have had a criminal record. Although a few of the murderer's colleagues found him belligerent, most thought he'd seemed stable and none thought he was a risk. It's a shame that both things happened in the same town, but nothing points to more than bad luck.
So two violent but unrelated on-campus incidents, two years apart. It's a bad thing, but hardly cause for worry about a trend or about the safety of living in Blacksburg. Murders are reported if they're sensational, and trying to make connections to past events is a good way for the media to keep them newsworthy. If you take out the Cho murders as a thing completely out of the ordinary, there is not a high rate of murder or violent crime either on the campus or in the town.
As a USC grad but also a Canes fan who was born/lives in Miami I don't have a heck of a lot of sympathy. During our football heyday every drip of info or baseless rumor coming out of the Miami area was assigned to Canes football as cheating murderous thugs, and so forth. Ignorance and perception became reality, and most of it attaches to this day. Two of Miami's football players were murdered -- one on campus and one in the parking lot of an off campus apartment -- yet somehow it was interpreted nationally as if the players were perpetrators, not victims.
I've attended two Miami/Virginia Tech night football games at Blacksburg within the past 6 years. I never brought up 2007 or anything else. Yet based solely on my Canes gear I was abused with all types of name calling and stereotypes. Frankly the only ones who showed any hint of class were the Asian students. They were also the only ones who remained in the stands throughout the lopsided Miami victory in 2014. Once the name calling locals cleared out I had very enjoyable conversations with those Asian students throughout the middle third quarter and throughout the fourth quarter.
I had to laugh when one Hokie early in that 2014 game tried taunting me by asserting that, "No wonder you made the trip. Anything to escape. Your campus is in the middle of the worst ghetto in Miami."
Talk about idiotic conventional wisdom. But somehow that notion makes the rounds. I heard the same thing from West Virginia fans in Miami's bowl game at Orlando last December.
The Miami campus is actually in classy quiet Coral Gables, one of the most exclusive areas in the region. The neighbors are so rich and powerful and land so expensive that the university was never able to get approval for an on-campus football stadium. Hell, it was life and death to finally get approval for a basketball arena about a decade ago. They still aren't allowed to use every seat in that arena due to strict regulations regarding nearby parking availability per seating capacity.
Anyway, as a life long camper I'm not particularly shocked at the recent killings. I think it's actually fortunate there haven't been exponentially more campground or wilderness murders/disasters, given the remote realities and so little security. These days it's also one of the few areas to avoid cameras everywhere. I had to predict these things but I suspect we'll see more of it.
hell hole wrote:
Lets see, a students goes on a shooting rampage and kills 31 people and then another student cuts off the head of a student in the student center with 20 people watching and now 2 more students are found murdered. Sounds like a nice place.
Yeah, HEAD FOR THE HILLS, VT PEOPLE!!!! The school is CURSED!!! Out of tens of thousands of students over the years, or is that HUNDREDS of thousands by now, there were some incidents:
a) ONE loony with weapons killed a bunch of people over ten years ago;
b) ONE loony cut off a student's head eight and a half years ago;
c) TWO young people who just happen to be VT students were murdered, which has nothing to do with VT except that the victims happen to be students at some school called Virginia Tech, where the murders didn't take place.
Burn it down!! It's the end of hope for Blacksburg!!!!!! Everyone move to anywhere else, where shit doesn't happen, you know!!! It only happens at VT!! Change the name of the town to Blackholeburg!!!!