How to Memorialize the Va Tech Victims?

[Captain_Kirk]

Someone mentioned elsewhere a statue for the Holocaust survivor professor. If you're in charge at Va Tech, what do you do in the memory of the innocent folks who lost their lives there this week? Some sort of monument in front of Norris Hall with all their names on it?

I imagine the football team will come out this fall with something on the uniforms--the black armband perhaps. How about a decal of the number 32 on their helmets?

And what of Norris Hall? Can you even consider holding classes on the 2nd floor there ever again? Or in the building in general? if you cordone off the 2nd floor, do you do anything with the space or just leave it as is?

 

[zeke12]

I like the idea someone posted on the main thread of a grove of 32 trees.

 

[heyabbott]

BANNING THE PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF HANDGUNS would be a great memorial

 

[Oz]

I like the idea someone posted on the main thread of a grove of 32 trees.

Fenian mentioned that, and I like that idea with maybe the professor getting that statue in that grove.

 

[audreyld]

What they can't afford to do is pretend it didn't happen (ala Texas, where the shooting victims are only just now being recognized).

Something nice, someplace quiet where people can reflect. Statues are nice, but they'll be more effective if they're on ground set aside for the purpose and not just plunked down in the middle of campus.

 

[KP]

Retire the number in all athletic events. I'd do the trees, but around a pond with benches.

 

[93Devil]

A brick fountain would be nice. Something with an engineering or German slant to it would be nice as well.

You don't want trees or anything like that because one may not be as healthy as the others.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

Asking this seriously, do you use the number 32 or 33?
I don't think anyone wants to memorialize the Cho, but because he was a student, is it possible the university says they don't want to forget the troubled soul?

 

[Oz]

Asking this seriously, do you use the number 32 or 33?
I don't think anyone wants to memorialize the Cho, but because he was a student, is it possible the university says they don't want to forget the troubled soul?

I would still say 32.

 

[Willie-Butch]

**** him. Go with 32.

 

[Oz]

**** him. Go with 32.

As if there were any question before, watching that video clip tonight sealed it for me ... 32.

 

[imjustagirl2]

I like the idea someone posted on the main thread of a grove of 32 trees.

Fenian mentioned that, and I like that idea with maybe the professor getting that statue in that grove.

I think if you give one to the Holocaust survivor professor, you need to give one to the professor who came down from the third floor to stop it and was gunned down.

Both put themselves in harm's way by choice.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

This is as moving a monument as I have visited in this country.

Beautifully conceived.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

This is as moving a monument as I have visited in this country.

Beautifully conceived.

SC --
Oklahoma City?

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

This is as moving a monument as I have visited in this country.

Beautifully conceived.

SC --
Oklahoma City?

yeah

****

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I thought so. But the only photos I've ever seen were of the chairs on the lawn. The whole thing is very striking.

 

[boots]

Best newspaper design for the massacre was the Virginia Pillot. Excellence beyond cmpare as far as I'm concerned.

 

[audreyld]

This is as moving a monument as I have visited in this country.

Beautifully conceived.

I agree it's beautiful, and it's one of my favorite places in my hometown, but I have a problem with the design concept.

 

[HejiraHenry]

As I observed the first day, the best way to memorialize the dead is to make the campus the safest on earth – including an abandonment of the absurd "gun-free zone" line of thinking that assured that only the crazed killer dude had a gun.

Then, invite every other college to send folks there to learn how it's done.

 

[Oz]

I like the idea someone posted on the main thread of a grove of 32 trees.

Fenian mentioned that, and I like that idea with maybe the professor getting that statue in that grove.

I think if you give one to the Holocaust survivor professor, you need to give one to the professor who came down from the third floor to stop it and was gunned down.

Both put themselves in harm's way by choice.

Didn't read about him. Apparently I missed a story or three somewhere.