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...even more frustrating given that the College already has other, better alcohol education programs. FRED gives information without obfuscating the truth. Its lecturers explain what freshmen need to know by highlighting the risks of drinking and, yet, recognizing that many will drink, describing how best to drink responsibly. An hour’s lecture one night might seem inconvenient, but it’s immeasurably better than the pain of Alcohol...
...surprising, then, that this intersection of reality and unreality centers on money, arguably the core value of American society today: How else can anyone explain former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain? Second Life suggests that this warped valuation controls not only our real world, but also our fantasy world—a very troubling thought...
...none of these definitions fit. Attempting to explain Monday’s rampage as a failure of one of these abstract ideas leaves the impression of missing the essential element. As the days and weeks pass, numerous hypotheses will emerge trying to explain why a 23-year old, after shooting two people in a dormitory, would, two hours later, chain the doors of a hall, walk to the second floor, and systematically murder thirty people in four classrooms. Some accounts will conclude the rampage to be a failure of Virginia Tech’s policies to provide a correct response...
...years, Cho's odd behavior indicated to some university authorities that he could be dangerous. In coming weeks, the school will almost certainly have to explain why it did not do more to help him or expel him before his massacre...
That would explain one of the biggest mysteries about the massacre: Where the gunman was and what he did during that two-hour window between the first burst of gunfire at a high-rise dorm, and the second attack, at a classroom building...