Virginia Tech students post documents on shootings

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© December 20, 2008

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Archived e-mails and documents given this week to families of victims of the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech University have been posted on the student newspaper's Web site, including correspondence among faculty written about the gunman before the massacre.

Collegiate Times editor-in-chief David Grant wouldn't disclose Friday how staffers gained access to the electronic archive but said they didn't hack the site that the university had made available to families Wednesday with protected passwords.

On April 16, 2007, student gunman Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people in a dormitory and classroom building, then took his own life.

School officials had planned to make the archive site public Feb. 1, after families had had a chance to review it.

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excellent job, CT !!!

Submitted by OnceALocal on Sat, 12/20/2008 at 4:01 pm.

The Collegiate Times has once again proven its value to the Virginia Tech community. A fine example of journalistic excellence, indeed.

Here is the URL, since it is conspicuously missing from the VP article:

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/

AND-

Submitted by Troll_Hunter on Sat, 12/20/2008 at 3:00 pm.

Had there been 1 or more armed and trained teacher/staff, this lunatic could have been sent to his maker sooner, and with less carnage.

Choose 1.

1. [ ] - Gun Owner

2. [ ] - Victim.

Legally armed citizen prvent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year.

Shut down the newspaper

Submitted by laura eichbaum on Fri, 12/19/2008 at 10:46 pm.

If consideration of the victims' families is so irrelevent to the school newspaper, it should be immediately shut down. THey do not have the right to publish information that is currently private.