VTech - tragedy

I am just wondering if Virginia Technology will have its charm as before after this terrible shootout. Will the RA status be removed due to this happening by any chance?

(I know it is a stupid post)

P.S:- May God bless the families of those who were the victims (Including an Indian professor)

 

To your first question, "charm" is very subjective. To me, there was never anything about VT that seemed particularly charming. It was just another good school.

To your second question, absolutely not. What on earth does accreditation status have to do with this horrible incident?

I echo your sentiment to the friends and families of the victims.

Pug

 

For the sake of making this thread forum appropriate, here's VT's list of DL offerings:

http://www.vto.vt.edu/programs.php

 

The VT incident is such a horrible tragedy, but NBC News is not helping by giving that creep his 15 minutes of fame by airing portions of his "Manifesto."

Shawn

 

More like days of fame. The media made the guy immortal. I agree with the police, the media should not have aired the footage sent by the him.

 

I disagree. I'm running into schizophrenics fairly frequently on the bus these days, a new experience for me to be sure. As revolting as it may seem now, if this

-helps raise public awareness of what dementia looks like, and
-leads to a discussion of how the general public should handle it when they encounter it

It would be of great benefit to me, and probably every other person that uses public transit or walks the streets in a major urban area.

 

Pugbelly: "What on earth does accreditation status have to do with this horrible incident?"

John: Conceivably it might. I read today that VT is going to award posthumous degrees to all the deceased students and possibly the badly wounded as well . . . even, apparently, the freshmen. And they are seriously considering declaring the semester to be over, and all work done so far will be deemed sufficient to pass. Of course the compassionate motive is clear, but these are two rather unusual things to do, and could conceivably be of concern to the accreditor.

 

And conceivably you might be an alien from Mars doing a deep cover operation. Show me one peep from an accreditor and I'll bow at the feet of the Master. Until then, this would seem to be a most unlikely scenario.
A politically crazy move from the accreditor.

 

I think the posthumous degrees are appropriate, but handing a degree to a surviving freshman who's most likely still working on the gen ed core is a bit much. What if their declared major was engineering or education, where the degree is a ticket to a licensing exam?

 

Well, the University of Texas managed to make a comeback even after that idiot siezed the bell tower and started shooting the place up ever so many years ago.

 

Yes, I still lust after their their MA in Political Science (though I do wonder whether I am prestigious enough for them).

 

Well, if the posthumous degrees were honorary (assuming the work hadn't been 100% completed yet), that'd be okay. For the badly wounded, perhaps free tuition for the remainder of their studies (maybe even up to their highest degree pursuit at VT) might be more appropriate. I think that'd keep 'em out of trouble with their accreditors.

 

that would sound appropriate

this would be much appropriate for this situation..

 

A few years ago, the University of Washington posthumously conferred a BA on Curtis Williams, a football player who died of complications related to quadraplegia resulting from a game injury. At the time of his death Curtis was six classes short of completing BA requirements.