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WTF

Wow.

I never got an email or VT alert. Shouldn't we know about this?

no one i have talked to has ever received this email, why can our school not get its damn act together.

Never got an e-mail, text, or anything. Whats going on with this?

if you aren't taking summer classes or aren't faculty/staff you probably didn't get the email. i recieved it this afternoon.

How many drafts of this notice did Larry have to write before we got it?

This is a completely different situation than we were in on April 16th. It would be better of us to offer support to the family as opposed to making incompetent comments about e-mails and things we no nothing about. Let's be true Hokies and not rush to judgement.

University Police were called to Cassell Coliseum in response to a disturbance Saturday afternoon. A university employee shot himself within the coliseum around 2:15 p.m. He has been transported to Roanoke for care. We have no report on his status. Police are on the scene investigating. There is no imminent threat to the university community. - end - That is the email I received at 3:21pm on the 2nd

"Let's be true Hokies and not rush to judgement" What does that even mean? "True Hokies"? Grow up, this isn't sesame street.

While I will reserve any hasty judgments about the situation until more information is available, certainly we can ascertain that he/she must be a security officer of some kind, since we all know that they're the only ones that have guns on campus. We can be certain of this because of the strictly enforced anti-firearm policy on campus.

Here is the header info from the email. It went out at 3:21 PM. Still, that is more than one hour after it happened... From: Unirel@vt.edu Subject: Employee shoots self Date: August 2, 2008 3:21:12 PM EDT To: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.VT.EDU

I'm taking summer classes and I didn't receive this email...

It's pretty obvious that you lack compassion as well as intelligence and I made a mistake by thinking you had the maturity to hold conversation. My thoughts and prayers are with the family of this individual..

everyone received emails about this except STUDENTS!!!! of course we didn't need to know!

everyone received emails about this except STUDENTS!!!! of course we didn't need to know!

We call this Failure of Leadership. Guess what you True Hokies - the admin only cares about fund-raisers and grants. A la 4-16-07, VT doesn't care about your safety. But if gross incompetence (VT massacre) can bring in 100s of million$ (for the admin, not the victims), what could be better. Charlie and Larry are such sorry "victims."

a person committing suicide doesn't pose a threat to any of you so why are you all up in arms about this. information about suicides/attempted suicides normally isn't given out. mind your own business and pray for the family

I do know the family, and I am with anyone who says we should be in support. Not everything is about 4-16, and some things, even ones involving a gun, are private.

But not when it is done on public/school property. That is not a private matter.

A person committing suicide doesn't pose a threat? Umm, do you remember what Cho did? I agree that some of these comments are tasteless, but an email making everyone aware of the situation definitely should have been sent. Everyone can sing the Charles Steger song for as long as they want, but open your eyes: he sucked before 4/16 and he sucks after it.

To be fair, Cho committed suicide after he killed 32 other people and injured countless others. This person was obviously not going to do that by the time that the email was sent. As for Charles Steger "sucking," maybe you've swallowed every ounce of drivel that the mainstream media has spewed since April 16th, but many of us are still able to put things in perspective and know that nothing of the kind is true.

Does anyone know who this guy/gal is yet?

No, doubt it will be released. Will it? I mean if I tried to commit suicide and failed I wouldn't want it plastered all over the papers.

Does this mean the employee is going to be released from his position for violating the campus gun ban? After all, Tech enjoys safety through being a gun-free campus. Or, if this fellow has tenure, is this washed under the bridge?

The employee died from the gunshot wound.

Can you post the whole e-mail?

The employee worked at Cassell, but wasn't a security officer. The employee died a few days later after being taken off life support. I don't think anything has actually been released by Tech and maybe won't. It apparently wasn't an issue that would affect the student body, in a safety concern. I received the email, yet I am a staff member, not a student. I knew this person are put 2 and 2 together after talking to people close to this person. My thoughts and condolensces go out to the family. RIP...

Yes, but anon, since the administration obviously cares so much about prohibiting firearms on campus, whenever one is discovered it should qualify as a de facto safety concern and should be reported.