Book on Virginia Tech massacre
p2pnet.net news:- The terrible mass-murders at Virginia Tech have inspired two directly linked publishing ventures, one offline and one on, one involving the university, and one involving a teacher.
The university’s The April 16 Archive features posts and pix to, “collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of the Virginia Tech tragedy of April 16, 2007.”
Virginia Tech’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) launched the project, helped by George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media (CHNM).
“Numerous Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff members have generously volunteered to help curate and maintain the archive,” it says.
The image on the right is captioned “Cadet memorial to Matthew LaPorte on graffiti slab in front of Schultz Dining Hall”.
Heartbreak in Blacksburg
Meanwhile, journalism professor Roland Lazenby has signed a deal to produce a book using, “the perspective of students on campus, in particular his own journalism students who helped supply the mainstream media with information via their student-run Web site planetblacksburg.com, to provide context for the events and describe the recovery and resilience of the campus community,” says Publishers Weekly, going on:
“Three of Lazenbys students will co-author the book and a portion of the proceeds will be given to the victims’ fund at Virginia Tech and to support journalism education at the university.”
The book, April 16: Heartbreak in Blacksburg , is due out this summer, says the story.
In associated news, a Pennsylvania college is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of hoaxers who posted email messages threatening a massacre like the one at Virginia Tech.
Also See:
Publishers Weekly – Plume Gets Professor’s Virginia Tech Account, April 30, 2007
$5,000 reward – Murder threats at US school, May 2, 2007
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May 2nd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
All right. All of these memorials were appropriate during the first week after the shootings, but now I just feel like some of these people just want to drone on and on about the subject. Can’t we just try to heal and move on? If you keep looking over your shoulder at what has happened already, you’ll completely miss what’s in front of you. I’m not suggesting that we should just forget about this and act like it never happened, but at the same time I really feel like a select amount of people are just milking the tragedy right now. Even the book title sounds discouraging. Yes, the campus was shocked to its foundation when this happened, but we as a campus and as a community refused to break down in our time of sorrow. Instead of letting this divide us, we have used it to unite with one another. Even students from other colleges have pledged their overwhelming support in the aftermath of what happened. To keep going on and on about what a terrible event this is is just going to cause the general public to give the university and its members pity instead of the respect and admiration in the face of adversity that they truly deserve.