April 19, 2007

• These past few days, I’ve been vastly engrossed in the whole VA Tech incident.  I’m constantly reading reports and stories and for some reason there is one story that keeps on tugging my heart, which is the story of Professor Liviu Librescu :

  

  At age 76,^[8] Librescu was among the thirty-two people who were murdered in the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007. He was killed during a class in the Norris Hall Engineering Building by a student (Cho Seung-hui,
  23). Librescu held the door of his classroom shut while Cho was
  attempting to enter it; although he was shot through the door, he was
  able to prevent the gunman from entering the classroom until his
  students had escaped through the windows.^[10][11]
  A number of Librescu’s students have called him a hero because of his
  actions, with one student, Asael Arad, saying that all the professor’s
  students “lived because of him”.^[12]
  Librescu’s son, Joe, said he had received e-mails from several students
  who said he had saved their lives and regarded him as a hero ^[8] whilst many newspapers also reported him as the hero of the massacre. He was killed on Yom HaShoah (the Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Israel and Judaism. On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 18, Librescu received an American funeral service at an Orthodox funeral home in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, where his body was flown to with his wife from Virginia. ^[13]He will be buried in Israel, where his son Arieh lives, according to his family wishes.

  Source:  Wikipedia
  

  
  It’s people like him that make me realized that while there are some evil ass people, there are still good, heroic folks to counteract them.  For this, Mr. Librescu will have my greatest respect.

  Currently some students at VA Tech are petitioning to change Norris Hall (the site of where most of the shootings happened) to Librescu Hall, to honor this great man.  I’m signature 907, so quite a lot of people have signed this petition already.  If you want to sign it as well, go here:  http://www.petitiononline.com/04172007/ .

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  On the lighter side of life

  Besides that, things are going pretty well in my life.  I’m doing very well in all my classes, even my Culture Psyc class!  I recently took a test in there that I thought I would maybe get a low B, but I ended up getting a 94 (the same score I got on the first exam) .  I’m not complaining, but that’s so weird…that means I only missed 3 questions?  I must have been a very good guesser

  I register tomorrow, and as long as all my classes are not filled up it looks like my schedule will be the following:

  PSYC 385  Health Psychology                                       3 

  [5259] 0201 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (TBA)           ANDERSON, R

  PSYC 324  Introduction to Interviewing Techniques                 3 

  [5224] 0101 M..........4:30pm- 7:00pm (TBA)           FOX, M

  PSYC 345  Introduction to Clinical Psychology and                 3

  [5250] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (TBA)           DELUTY, R

  SOCY 210  Class and Inequality in the U.S.                        3 

  [6019] 0101 TuTh......11:30am-12:45pm (TBA)           HEWITT, C

  PHIL 321  History of Philosophy: Ancient                          3 

  [4875] 0101 TuTh.......4:00pm- 5:15pm (TBA)           HITZ, Z

  PSYC 397 Research Credit                                                              Baker               2

  TOTAL CREDITS:  17

  All American Rejects concert tomorrow (woop woop!), than Towson match on Sunday.  This weekend should be pretty good

  To end this way too long entry, I wanted to show some funny 300 parodies I found online.  Yea, I know 300 came out a while ago but it still a kickass movie :

  
  

  Ecobecker time! (yall who ever taken science 100 should know what I’m talking about )

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