Today is the one-year anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Tech. The university canceled class so students and faculty could mourn the losses.
We at K-State should remember the shootings and how we came together. After the shootings, students attended candlelight vigils and memorials, joined memorial Facebook groups, and wore maroon and orange to remember Virginia Tech.
No events have been scheduled by K-State, and nobody has posted on those groups' walls for months.
Students put their busy schedules aside and were eager to show support for the victims a year ago, and they should at least remember how the community came together to mourn and also learn from the shootings.
Though they are hundreds of miles apart, Virginia Tech is a similar university to K-State with many of the same degrees and programs and a similar student population. Virginia Tech is the centerpiece of Blacksburg, Va., just like K-State is to Manhattan.
Virginia Governor,
Timothy Kaine has called for a statewide moment of silence at noon today. Members of the local community should take a moment of silence of their own to remember the losses and gains of shootings at a university not much different from their own.
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