Tuesday, April 17, 2007
32 people have names

but we don't know them yet.

Deceased

Jocelyne M. Couture-Nowak, faculty French instructor
Rachael Elizabeth Hill, 18 freshman
Ross A. Alameddine, 20 sophomore
Christopher "Jamie" Bishop, 35 tenure-track professor of German
Ryan Christopher Clark, 22 senior
Daniel Perez Cueva, 21
Kevin Granata, faculty professor of engineering science and mechanics
Caitlin Millar Hammaren, 19 sophomore
Emily Hilscher, 19 freshman
Jarret Lee Lane, 22 senior
Matt La Porte, student
Liviu Librescu, faculty A Holocaust survivor who had taught at Virginia Tech for 20 years
G.V. Loganathan, 53 professor of civil and environmental engineering
Henry Lee, aka Henh Ly, 20
Juan Ortiz, graduate student
Erin Peterson, student
Mary Karen Read, 19
Reema Samaha, 18
Leslie Sherman, student
Maxine Shelly Turner, 22 senior
Wounded
Guillermo Colman, student
Heidi Miller, student
Kristina Heeger, student
Derek O' Dell, student

My students are asking question about how this could happen, any suggestions?

Labels:



5 Comments:

Blogger Monkey said...

I have no idea. That list is just so... overwhelming.

Blogger Tits McGee said...

Thank you for this, sweetheart.

As for the question of why, I refer you to Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine."

Now I have to go cry.

Blogger Scarlet Hip said...

I try to subscribe to the belief that everything happens for a reason. But I can't really see the reason here.

Blogger Jaded said...

Jarrett Lee Lane... all around nice kid, very smarty, funny... or so says my dear friend of 20+ years, because one of HER dear friends is Jarrett's big sister.

Blogger Megan said...

be honest. use it as a lesson in bullying--appropriate ways to cope with bullying and to show how devastating words can be. maybe do an exercise where they all write nice things about one another, even anonymously, to improve their individual self-esteem and to demonstrate how easy it is to appreciate others? i'm going way out on a limb, but it sounds good to me.

Post a Comment

<< Home

Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting