The CTube: Baby, that’s cool!
An average 25-month-old kid lives at home, drinks milk and plays with toys. This one little guy, though, has more important activities. He breakdances. And he does it well. “The Amazing Breakdancing Toddler,” a three-minute compilation of breakdancing moves, is a relatively rich video portfolio of the little kid.
Weird News
Boy found in croc
A missing 9-year-old student’s remains were discovered inside a crocodile. The student and three friends climbed over a fence into a pool in a park in Beihai, China, which is used for staging crocodile shows.
The children had beaten the crocodiles with sticks and shot them with catapults.
Student works exhibited in Anderson Gallery
The Richmond art community gathered at the Anderson Gallery on Friday, April 13 for the 36th annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition opening. This year’s juror Eric Heist selected the undergraduate artwork to be displayed at the gallery from April 13 to April 22.
Artistic catharsis
In times of tragedy, many methods can be used to try to make sense of the senseless.
Jeff Green, a sophomore graphic design major at VCU, used his artistic talent as a way to help himself and others cope with the events at Virginia Tech.
“I realized how effective it can be to do something simple,” Green said.
From the president
Last week was filled with sorrow as our friends, brothers, sisters and colleagues at Virginia Tech were faced with tragedy. I want to thank all of you who rose up to support your fellow Virginia students. Pictures from the various vigils held in the Siegel Center last Tuesday, April 17 and in the Commons last Thursday, April 19 can be found online at www.
Despicable. Rude. Distasteful. Foul. Disrespectful.
You can choose any of these words, and you still would not be close to characterizing someone who’d protest at another person’s funeral.
Well, that’s exactly what the Rev. Fred Phelps was planning. Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church congregation had plans to protest at each funeral and memorial service for the shooting victims at Virginia Tech.
Your Letters
I’m so glad that I live in a country where we are guaranteed freedom of speech; a country in which we can speak our minds, however controversial, and do so without fear of reprisal. In fact, our country is such a model of freedom that we’ve gone so far as to liberate other countries, sacrificing the lives of soldiers and civilians alike, all in an effort to bring to them freedoms-such as freedom of speech-to their oppressed, censored peoples.
Tech student writes
Greetings from Tech country,
First I want to begin this by saying that my heart and my prayers go out to all the victims and their families and friends. What happened today at Virginia Tech is something no one would have ever imagined possible. The city of Blacksburg is not known for its crime or for any kind of violent incidenct, so today was quite of a shock to us all.
A day of mourning
The pristine spring weather that characterized Friday contrasted sharply with the tears and forlorn faces that filled Monroe Park at noon, as 2,500 people gathered to reflect on the lives lost at Virginia Tech.
Among them was Lauren Hall, a junior art education major at VCU.
Virginia Tech Briefs
eBay account provides clues
BLACKSBURG, Virginia – An eBay account that investigators believe may have belonged to the Virginia Tech shooter was used to buy two ammunition clips for the type of gun used in Monday’s rampage, according to the auction Web site.