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Tyrod Taylor's Red Shirt Goes Out of Style

After the depressing loss to un-ranked ECU during the opening game of the season, Virginia Tech's head coach, Frank Beamer, has decided to no longer redshirt sophomore quarterback, Tyrod Taylor.  The original plan for this season was to have starting quarterback, Sean Glennon, hold

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Unusually-Named College Criminals

If you have a funny, unorthodox name, chances are you will become a murderer.

Latest comment by Anonymous: wtc? Seong-Hui Cho is just a phonetic spelling of his Korean name
Schools That May Cause the Earth's Destruction

Even before this conference about the possibility of an apocalypse gets underway, these colleges are already hard at work developing new technology that could lead to the end of humanity.

Latest comment by Anonymous: re: Olin -- *three* years, to be exact. The first class graduated in 2006. Now, our ranks are slowly yet inexorably swelling...
Report Suggests Colleges Need Better Security

Emo students of the world, beware! School officials have started targeting quiet loners as potential school safety threats. This contributor, however, believes that frats are to blame.

Latest comment by Anonymous: Greeks are the social kids who are too busy partying to plan mass death.

The people you need to worry about are those whose undying jealousy drives them to the brink of insanity.

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V-Tech Shootings: The Video Game?!

Manveer Heir, a Virginia Tech alum, is working on a video game based on the fatal shootings that occurred at the university just one year ago. Is it a work of poor taste or artistic expression?

Latest comment by Anonymous: thats ****ing bullshit makin a video game about one of the biggest school shootings the makers of this game will be sued
CollegeOTR Remembers Virginia Tech

Today is a sorrowful day for many as it marks the one year anniversary of the heartbreak that became known as the worst school shooting in U.S. history.

 

Our deepest, sincerest condolences go out to the Virginia Tech community.

 

It is an understatement to say the lives of students everywhere were changed

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Photo Showing Nathan Jones in Costume Finally Surfaces
We told you on Wednesday that Nathan Jones had appeared on CNN's "Out in the Open", but since no one watches CNN for anything except Larry King and Anderson Cooper, basically everyone missed it. Well, we finally found a video of the interview, and with it, a picture of J... MORE »
Latest comment by ha-mace: I'm an idiot. I knew in my head it was 4/16, but for some reason wrote March. Will change
All That Sympathy We Showed For Virginia Tech Just Went Down The Drain

12/11  Update - Nathan Jones on Fox & Friends.

Update here
 - not all "victims" are Penn Staters.

Remember last year at the Blue and White game when we spelled out VT in honor of the shooting victims at Virginia Tech? Or all the Virginia Tech t-shir

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Latest comment by Anonymous: i wrote that last comment with anger on my back, and it didn't really accomplish anything i shortly thereafter realized. but in all seriousness, even if psu ... MORE »
Sounds Like A Great Idea?
In response to the nearly unbelievable Virginia Tech tragedy, Brown University officials have decided to implement a warning system--a very loud one. In the event that somebody tries anything of the V-tech sort, various sirens would alert the campus (and in effect, all of Providence). 

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Link: http://www.projo.com/education/content/BROWN_WARNI...
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