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I don't know who this Nikki Giovanni is, but this is the most outrageous thing I've ever ready.

Has he/she been fired?????

Doubtful she is fired. I also suspect many of her fellow faculty members are more in agreement than disagreement with her views. I have no proof of this, but my experience in academia seems to point in that direction.

of the creative writing department at VT. What makes her idiotic speech all the more incredibly offensive is that she had the killer, Cho, in her classes and knew him quite well. Well enough (by her account) to demand that he be removed from her class or she would resign.

In other words someone in a position of responsibility to the students completely ignores that responsibility yet has the gall to point out other "victims".

In general I've been impressed by what I've read of the faculty at VT, not surprising as they are mostly science and engineering. The Humanities are going to be more reliably idiotic. By the way, it seems there was a lot more to Cho's classroom behavior than bad writing. In one course the other students were so alarmed they refused to attend class with him,so he had to be taught one on one by the prof. This prof was so afraid that she worked out an alarm system with her assistant, so that if the prof used the name of a (dead) professor, that would be the signal for the assistant to call the police.

And so on. There's an implication that some of these teachers gave Cho good grades in hopes of getting him graduated and away from the school, where he would be someone else's problem. Yet I'm not surprised they're moralizing and pontificating about our violent society, etc.

roared the students into a Pro- VT frenzy. I doubt that they will fire her because she inspired those heartbroken students.
I didn't hear a word she said but they clearly loved her for whatever she said.

If she survives those words, Imus should demand an apology and his job back!

I think you are misreading her poem.

As a VT Alum I watched the entire convocation; while I didn't think it was the best poem ever, her point was not equating the magnitude or cause of the events.

Her point was that "life is not fair", "bad things happen to good people" (elephants?), BUT we will overcome because "WE ARE VIRGINIA TECH!". To that end, I thought it was appropriate. I was also pleased by the spontaneous student response at the end.

This is a horrible crime, commited by an individual who chose to continue down an evil path, but will not destroy the Hokie spirit.

Equating a masacare and Imus' comments is assinine, Nikki's speech was not.

I will also say that I was most impressed with Gov. Kaine's comments. I hope he applies his "I loathe..." comment to both sides of the gun control debate.

The PC invitation to cover religious bases annoyed me more than anything else.

want to become part of the "victimhood fraternity," even though the only thing they have in common with the real victims was their attendance at Virginia Tech.

"We will overcome because WE ARE VIRGINIA TECH?" What do "we" have to overcome? The families and roommates of the victims and others who were threatened need recovery, but somebody who simply was on the campus?

Harry Reid on Iraq: “I say we’ve lost. Let’s bring our boys home in, oh, say 18 months. In the meantime, no more funding for them.”

Every time any event like this happens, a whole lot of people seem to feel the need to unnecessarily make themselves a part of it by grasping at whatever connections they can find. I find it extremely distasteful.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

...was completely agreeing with him on that last point. While sports can help us heal, I have trouble with the inane idea that, without sports, there can be no healing.

a Doctor of Philosophy.

Harry Reid on Iraq: “I say we’ve lost. Let’s bring our boys home in, oh, say 18 months. In the meantime, no more funding for them.”