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I am a weekly columnist. My column next week will obviously have to be about the tragedy at VT. I discuss the killings at Univ. of Texas in 1966 and the Killeen Luby's massacre of 1996. I never mention the killers, and I make a point at the end that the endless glorification of these animals is wrong. You have to report the news, but you do not have to make media stars of the killers. I end my column with a list of the names we should remember - the victims at UT, Luby's and Va Tech. They are the ones who should be remembered - the unborn child and the woman killed trying to help her stricken fiance in Austin, the couple who had just celebrated their 47th anniversary in Killeen, the Eagle Scout who kept his cool, the professor who sacrificed his life for his students, the Pi Phi who was injured as she went to help her sister -this should be the focus.
And while I hope the parents of this latest killer are safe, I do think it fair to ask - How did they not know their son was in such an awful mental state? I realize the university was in a horrible situation - I know they cannot necessarily contact the parents (when I taught college I could not even give parents their children's grades because of privacy issues) - but I can't help but wonder - as, in all fairness I'm sure they are now - how could they have missed this?
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