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Virginia Tech issues alerts as killing rocks campus

In the wake of a brutal on-campus murder at Virginia Tech University last Wednesday, an emergency alert system put in place after the April 2007 shootings there was called into use, sending emergency messages to approximately 30,000 mobile devices. The death of graduate student Xin Yang marked the first ...

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Universities need new mission statements, Fish says

Halfway through his lecture Monday afternoon, Stanley Fish, author of the New York Times blog "Think Again," told a mostly filled Salomon 101 that universities have their stated goals all wrong. University mission statements are "all unbearable," Fish said, and "they should all be burned."

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Scoblic '97 dissects U.S. foreign policy failures

Before beginning his lecture Thursday evening, J. Peter Scoblic '97, executive editor of The New Republic, took a quick political poll of his audience. Of the roughly 30 students and others in attendance, not one supported John McCain for president.

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