Agree with everything you said there about the book,,,,

Very true, but there is a big difference between watching people on a screen shoot up people and actually "shooting them" in a game.

I am not saying that it might be a cause, I'm just syaing it doesn't help if someone is already off.

That's super good to know that they're okay.
Coz earlier I was thinking "oh my..." when I was reading this : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18138907/site/newsweek/ since about half-way down the page, it said that one of the girl's classmate's Pi Phi sisters was shot.

THIS IS ADDRESSED TO ALL GREEK SISTERS AND BROTHERS REGARDLESS OF THEIR AFFILIATIONS...

MEET AS AN ENTIRE CHAPTER AND THOROUGHLY GO OVER YOUR CHAPTER, COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY PLAN FOR EMERGENCIES. HAVE PLANS AND RESOURCES IN PLACE FOR ANYTHING THAT MAY HAPPEN - WHETHER IT BE SOMETHING AS TRAGIC AS THIS OR SIMPLE EMERGENCIES LOCATED AT YOUR COLLEGES...

CREATE PHONE TREES, E-MAIL/TEXT MESSAGING LISTS ETC. KNOW WHO YOUR CONTACT PEOPLE ARE FOR YOUR FAMILIES AT HOME OR AWAY. DISCUSS FULLY WHAT EVERYONE CAN DO TO STAY IN TOUCH AND PLAN FOR SUCH AND EVENT. HAVE A LIST OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO ALL WITHIN YOUR CHAPTER AND CAMPUS SO THAT ALL KNOW WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO TURN. NOTIFY YOUR FAMILIES OF THESE CONTACTS AS WELL.

AND ABOVE ALL, PRAY OR SEND HEARTFELT THOUGHTS TO THOSE PARENTS WHO HAVE LOST A CHILD TONIGHT...

Sigma Chi (Eta Lambda)

2:50pm - Monday April 16th, 2007 - All brothers and pledges have been accounted for and our prayers are with those that have been affected today. Please check CNN for more updates on today's events. We will continue to update the website with more information when it becomes available. Thanks to all the chapters that have contacted us with your concerns, we appreciate it very much.

4:10pm - Monday April 16th, 2007 - We are planning to launch a fundraiser for the families that were effected in today's tragedy. Please visit the website to learn more about this campaign to help those in need.

All Delta Zetas are accounted for and physically unharmed. Prayers to everyone....

That's good. I was wondering if they had a chapter there.

The latest news links:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...6?feedType=RSS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vte...ing/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266310,00.html

As was posted over in the ADPi forum, all sisters are accounted for...one injured.

My thoughts and prayers for eveyone at Virginia Tech -- their families and friends. May the peace of a loving God surround them and comfort them at this time.

Anyone have any word yet on any brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha chapter there?

Nothing is posted on our website or our online magazine.

www.lambdachi.org

My thoughts and prayers go out to all affected by this tragedy.

If I find out anything, I will post it here.

Don't forget to wear Virginia Tech colors to school/work tommorow if you can! Maroon and Orange.

I totally don't see the purpose of that.

Through the rumor mill, I've been told that a Kappa lost her life.

According to a message I received from Kappa Delta's National Office, the President of the VT KD chapter reports that all sisters are safe and accounted for. They are doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances.

DaffyKD

Thanks for updating us on the Kappa Deltas. With no message on our website I was beginning to really worry.


This whole thing is so upsetting. All those promising young lives taken for no reason. My thoughts are with their families and friends.

I saw those this morning. How awful for the families!

I emailed Fox and told them how incredibly inappropriate that was. Not that it made a shred of difference, but at least I notified someone (probably their junk folder:rolleyes: ).

There is a scrolling message on the VT Kappa local website confirming your rumor. :(

:( may Caitlin rest in peace, along with all the other victims.

you have to be in a really dark, dark, desperate place to even think of perpetrating an act like this. it makes no sense and my mind is still reeling from it.

www.vt.edu
Norris Hall gunman identified; ballistics match at both crime scenes
Posted 9:15 a.m., April 17, 2007

The Virginia Tech Police Department has confirmed the identification of the gunman responsible for the multiple fatalities at Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus Monday, April 16, 2007.

The individual has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23. Cho was enrolled as an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech. Cho, a South Korean native, was in the U.S. as a resident alien with a residence established in Centerville, Va. Cho was living on campus in Harper Residence Hall.

An AOII here at Ole Miss one of her friends from home (VA) was a victim who died. So sad.

I also emailed them about the tastelessness of the photo.

this is from the other thread on the shootings in the greek life forum:

As a person of Korean descent (my mom's from South Korea...my dad's a good old cracker :D ) I can't imagine what the backlash will be towards the Korean community...especially in the DC area where there's such a high concentration of Koreans. I have a feeling that my cousin knows the shooter as she was friends with most Koreans at VT from the DC area..I'm not ready to ask her yet though.

How extremely sad for our Zeta Mu chapter. The first reports yesterday were that the chapter had accounted for almost all its members. I wish they could have been able to account for ALL members. :(

The news orgs are infuriating me with the continuous talk about people being angry at the school. Every student I've heard said they don't place blame on the school, but CNN especially just keeps trying to corner them into saying something. Its damn ridiculous.

I agree with shinerbock on this. I keep hearing "they should have locked down the school after the first shooting" but, in almost all domestic violence cases, the violence is limited. OJ didn't go shooting up a whole bunch of people, Steven Grant (recent Michigan news) didn't kill anybody other than his wife, etc. There's no precedent or reason to believe that someone who kills their significant other in a domestic issue is going to go on to kill a bunch of others. I'm sure that if an ex/husband came into my building and killed his ex/wife and left the building, they wouldn't keep the whole building on shutdown for long. Hindsight is 20/20.

ETA: Anger is a common reaction to grief and they are looking for someone to blame or be angry at. The only person who should bear the brunt of the anger is the murderer, but he is already dead, so it makes it harder.

Collegemedia.com has a list of those confirmed dead so far - I notice a few names missing at the moment that i've seen from other stories, but if anyone would like to see the list, it's available here: http://www.collegemedia.com/stories/417-300am-none.html

Well I would completely understand if thats what the students were generally saying, but they're not! I watched someone on CNN last night corner a guy, she was relentless with the blaming the school issue, and the guy was getting visibly frustrated. I was hoping he'd just come out and say "listen, shut the hell up, either report the news and help us deal with this, or get off our campus."

It's BS, my mum was saying something like that yesterday. I told her that these things are random, not predictable, and no student wants to go to a police-state college. It's not VT's fault at all. I believe the one thing they will change (if this doesn't already exist on their campus) is the addition of surveillance cameras in the public areas of campus. UMASS has about 475 cameras all over the campus, and they're there strictly to monitor crime and perhaps identify the perpetrator. The tapes are deleted after a week and only three people in the whole university have personal access to them.
There won't be any way to make sense of this tragedy, and I'm curious as to the aftermath effects on campus life. How many students will withdraw or transfer, how many incoming freshmen will switch schools...

VAGirl-I have never hated a Korean and I'm not going to start now. Actually I really like you guys. Your food is delicious and you gave the world taekwondo and hapkido. I have a korean symbol tattoo :) If anyone lashes out at the Koreans it would really piss me off. No one ever said "all caucasian americans are terrible people because Timothy McVeigh blew up the Federal Building and he's white.'

Okay, I got a bit ranterrific.

My heart goes out to the Pi Phis, the ADPis and the Kappas. Hang in there.

When I tragically lost a Gamma Phi Beta sister at the age of 28 to colon cancer, it really helped when we established a scholarship in her name.
Perhaps the VT Kappas might consider establishing a fund to which her Kappa sisters and NPC cousins might contribute, to remember Caitlin and insure that her name and legacy continue . . .

Everyone in the DC metro area is really rallying around the Hokie Nation today...there are so many alumni and students from NoVA in the area. It's pretty touching.

http://www.mozeleski.org/football/94hooo_plate.jpg

http://www.brinkleys.org/users/sad/allhokies.jpg

I love that. It's so nice to see the good in people come out in the face of an event like this.

:(:(:(

Wow. The "Today we are all Hokies" pic actually has me in tears. So sad.

Has anyone heard from Alpha Omega Epsilon (professional eng sorority) or Sigma Phi Delta (professional eng fraternity)?? Since the majority of their members are engineering majors, I have been praying that their members are ok.

Supposedly Maxine Turner is a member of AOE. I was looking at the VT LJ group and one student had just taken her to formal on Friday. So sad :(

Pi Kappa Phi - Delta Alpha Chapter
 

Charlotte, N.C. – Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity was shocked to learn of the shooting earlier today on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, VA. The school is home to the fraternity’s Delta Alpha chapter. Several alumni brothers are also members of the university’s faculty and staff. At this time and to the best of our knowledge, no members of the fraternity are believed to have been harmed in the incident, which to date has claimed the lives of over 30 students and members of the Virginia Tech community. Our hearts and prayers go out to our members who have lost friends in this terrible incident and to the victims and their families.

yes, i think the nytimes blog roundup about the shootings had an entry from one student saying he'd taken a girl from AOE to their formal on friday night and that nobody had heard from her yet.

the dean of the college at my school sent this out to the entire campus:

Dear All,

As we continue to receive news about the tragic moments at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University on Monday, we would like to remind members of the
Wesleyan community of our support services in the Dean's Office. Specifically, the
Office of Behavioral Health Services for Students is available 24 hours a day by
contacting ext. 2470 during the day, or ext. 2910 after business hours. In addition,
please contact any of us in the Dean's Office if we can provide assistance or
support.

Today at 2 pm the community at Virginia Tech will come together to mourn and honor
the lives of the students and professors who were victims of yesterday's violence on
that campus. In solidarity, the college bells will ring just before 2 pm, and we ask
you to observe a moment of silence and reflection.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Virginia Tech community during this
terrible time.
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what's happening on other campuses, out of curiosity? it is nice to see people come together over this and i'm glad my school is doing something in solidarity. seeing the flags at halfmast really got to me.