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Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, Virginia Tech is a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest full-time student population (25,000+ full-time students) in the state. The school was founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. On April 16, 2007 a student gunman there killed 32 people and wounded many more before committing suicide.
Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, Virginia Tech is a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest full-time student population (25,000+ full-time students) in the state. The school was founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. On April 16, 2007 a student gunman there killed 32 people and wounded many more before committing suicide.
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Commencement speakers: the rude, the unfunny and the insightful
Commencement season is the college equivalent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Institutions from the Ivy League to the local community college scramble to lure the shiniest star they can to their podiums on graduation day. And the match-ups...
Tags: Jane Lynch, Jerry Falwell, Mitt Romney, Joe Biden, Students
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Former Lake Clifton guard Terence Jones headed to UAB
The Baltimore SunFor his final year of college basketball, Terence Jones knew exactly what he wanted in a program. The former Lake Clifton guard wanted to play for a school that would offer more exposure for him than he received at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. He wanted...Tags: Paul Pierce, College Basketball, Atlantic Coast Conference, Basketball, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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College Lines: County residents earn honors
GROVE CITY COLLEGE: Grove City College senior molecular biology major Jordan Moyer, of Bel Air, traveled to Tucson, Ariz., on an Inner City Outreach (ICO) trip with other students from the college in early April. ICO Tucson partnered with Life in Christ...Tags: ICO Incorporated, Science, State University of New York, Electronics, Colleges and Universities
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InsideMDSports: Terps offer Va. sophomore guard Devon Hall
Special to The Baltimore SunEditor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. When we recently profiled Virginia sophomore Devon Hall, his father – and coach – Mark...Tags: Boo Williams, Basketball, Virginia Cavaliers, North Carolina Tar Heels, Florida State University
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Everything is fixable, except the senseless death of a child
In the whirlwind of life, I get consumed by the day-to-day activities and the event of the moment. On any given day my family has something going on that is above and beyond the normal. I know so many families who are in the same boat. I saw a television...Tags: Suicide
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UM student charged with threatening a 'shooting rampage'
A student from Howard County threatened to go on a "shooting rampage" Sunday at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park, campus police said.
Alexander Song, 19, of Fulton, posted on a website comments such as "I will be on a shooting rampage tomorrow...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Shootings, Hospitals and Clinics, Prosecution, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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UM student charged with threatening 'a shooting rampage'
A week ago, authorities were called to the campus dorm room of 19-year-old Alexander G. Song 2nd, who, according to the University of Maryland, College Park police chief, was shouting and acting out.
The sophomore who grew up in Howard County told...Tags: GEICO, Science, Hospitals and Clinics, Juvenile Delinquency, Howard County
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Harford County College Lines
McDANILE COLLEGE: McDaniel College inducted 36 juniors and seniors into the Delta of Maryland Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa has chapters at 280 colleges and universities, and more than 600,000 members. Among the McDaniel...Tags: Science, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Harford County, Architecture, Havre de Grace
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Looking at the college hoops transfers from Baltimore, DI schools in Maryland
The Baltimore SunCBSSports.com’s Jeff Goodman posted his amazingly comprehensive Division I basketball transfer list this morning. With 300-plus names and counting, there were sure to be tons of local guys mentioned. Sure enough, eight players from the Baltimore...Tags: Virginia Tech Hokies, Gary Williams, Rutgers University, Schools, Towson Tigers
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Harford Community College defends handling of potential threat
Harford Community College officials defended their decision Monday morning not to immediately alert the campus about what a police spokesperson called a "homicidal [or] suicidal" individual, explaining Tuesday that the unidentified student was quickly...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Oikos University, Teaching and Learning, Safety of Citizens
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Dead wrong
Possibly the only thing more disturbing than the realization that someone was on campus at a school in Harford County this week making threats to kill people is the reaction of the school and its public safety component. On Monday morning, the...Tags: Columbine High School, Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, Mental Health, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland)
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Towson education notices
Amanda Walsh has been named to the fall 2011 dean's list at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash. Nadejda Hvoyneva, a resident of Cockeysville, has earned a bachelor's degree in business from Excelsior College, Albany, N.Y. Michael Lackey, of Towson, and...Tags: Timonium, Colleges and Universities, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Towson, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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