Spring Break
Sports help to make the healing process easier
James Mason
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: Sports
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There are few words that can accurately describe the events that took place at Virginia Tech April 16, a day that will go down in American history. We may never know what possessed Cho Seung-hui to act as he did, and certainly a motive can't change what happened or its impact. At least 33 people are dead that did not deserve to die. Several others injured, thousands affected, and millions are concerned with the situation in Blacksburg.
In the coming weeks I'm sure there will be scrutiny about the security at the University and the safety of the students. As college students, we definitely want to feel safe at our school, whether its in a city like Philadelphia which is essentially at war with itself or in a small, isolated college town like Blacksburg. For some students there, I'm sure it will be hard to return to class. Juanisha Brooks, a junior majoring in communication and psychology, said that she doesn't feel safe going back to class.
"I'm not sure we have a system in place to prevent anything like this from happening again. It could've easily been any building on campus," Brooks said.
While classes are cancelled for the rest of the week and security is tight, Brooks said she feels "apprehensive about going on campus" at this time.
Obviously, spirits are down at Virginia Tech.
I can't come close to imagining what it would be like to go to school where something like that happened, or to know someone murdered so senselessly. All wounds take time to heal, but these wounds will sting for a long time. For many, Virginia Tech will now be synonymous with this incident.
Before this incident, Virginia Tech was perhaps best known for its football team. One of the three schools that left the Big East in 2003 and 2004, Virginia Tech's football team has become a national power under head coach Frank Beamer, making it to the title game in 2000.
Before its football team's rise to prominence, Tech was known primarily as an engineering school like Drexel currently is. It was definitely a huge blow to the university when its football team cancelled the rest of spring practice and its spring game. At a time like this, playing football is probably the last thing people want to do.
In the coming weeks I'm sure there will be scrutiny about the security at the University and the safety of the students. As college students, we definitely want to feel safe at our school, whether its in a city like Philadelphia which is essentially at war with itself or in a small, isolated college town like Blacksburg. For some students there, I'm sure it will be hard to return to class. Juanisha Brooks, a junior majoring in communication and psychology, said that she doesn't feel safe going back to class.
"I'm not sure we have a system in place to prevent anything like this from happening again. It could've easily been any building on campus," Brooks said.
While classes are cancelled for the rest of the week and security is tight, Brooks said she feels "apprehensive about going on campus" at this time.
Obviously, spirits are down at Virginia Tech.
I can't come close to imagining what it would be like to go to school where something like that happened, or to know someone murdered so senselessly. All wounds take time to heal, but these wounds will sting for a long time. For many, Virginia Tech will now be synonymous with this incident.
Before this incident, Virginia Tech was perhaps best known for its football team. One of the three schools that left the Big East in 2003 and 2004, Virginia Tech's football team has become a national power under head coach Frank Beamer, making it to the title game in 2000.
Before its football team's rise to prominence, Tech was known primarily as an engineering school like Drexel currently is. It was definitely a huge blow to the university when its football team cancelled the rest of spring practice and its spring game. At a time like this, playing football is probably the last thing people want to do.
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