Indeed AoIR members and air-l members have long had connections to Virginia Tech, and it should also be remembered that staff from Virginia Tech assisted with the 2005 AoIR conference in Chicago (those of you who attended may remember the people behind the registration desk responsible for name tags, receipts, etc.). The Blacksburg Electronic Village is also well known among CMC scholars. I am sure many of us are connected to VT and Blacksburg either directly or through but one degree of separation. Many of us who work in academic environments are also no doubt touched by the shooting at VT if only because we, and our students, are imagining something like it happening on our campuses, places that we feel, whether rightly or wrongly, almost invincibly safe. As is the case with so many tragedies (too many, it seems, particularly during the past couple or so years, and on a larger and larger scale, it seems) I have no words for the family and friends of those killed, only sympathy, and for all of us I wish peace. Sj On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:29 AM, James Whyte wrote:
Many of our colleagues are former students of Virginia Tech. I can only assume that this tragedy has touched them all. Jeremy Hunsinger comes to mind
My thoughts are with you!
James
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