Gunman Dead After Bloody Campus Rampage
April 16, 2007
(CNN) — A lone gunman is dead after officials said he killed at least 31 people Monday during shootings in a dorm and a building housing classrooms at Virginia Tech, making it the deadliest school attack in U.S. history.
Before Monday, the deadliest school shootings came in 1966 and 1999.
In the former, Charles Joseph Whitman, a 25-year-old ex-Marine, killed 13 people on the University of Texas campus. He was killed by police.
In 1999, 17-year-old Dylan Klebold and 18-year-old Eric Harris — armed with guns and pipe bombs — killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
Working on a large university campus this story really hits close to home. My heart goes out to all of the victims and their love ones.
Posted in News
Comments (1)The Legendary Coach Eddie Robinson Dies at age 88
April 4, 2007
The legendary Grambling Head Football Coach Eddie Robinson, has died. He was 88. Coach Robinson was one of the greatest college coaches in football history, amassing over 400 victories and sending more than 200 players to the NFL (7 first-round draft choices) during his 57-year career. Coach Robinson began his coaching career at Grambling State in 1941, when it was still the Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial Institute. Robinson’s career spanned 11 presidents, several wars and the civil-rights movement. He will be sorely missed.
Posted in Sports
Comments (1)Never Obsolete Huh!
March 26, 2007
One of my co-workers found this while preparing to surplus some computers. Thought it was kinda funny. 
Posted in Technology, Funny
Comments (0)Sunday Fun - Seven Songs I Like
March 25, 2007
Via Hyku
This meme was a tough one for me.
- Mainstream - Outkast
- Get Up Get Out - Outkast f/Goodie Mob
- This Can’t Be Life - Jay-Z
- Heaven - Scarface
- I Told the Storm - Greg O’Quin
- All Falls Down - Kanye West
- The Light - Common
I have to mention some of the artist and albums that did not make the list, but easily could have.
Little Brother -The Listening
De La Soul - The Grind Date
Nas - The Lost Tapes
Posted in Meme
Comments (0)Tallahassee art exhbit fuels Confederate flag controversy
March 21, 2007
An art exhibit at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art Science, here in Tallahassee, is stirring quite a bit of controversy.
Bob Hurst walked into a Tallahassee art museum this week and saw the symbol of his Southern heritage hanging by a noose.
The Artwork, which has led to a standoff between descendants of Confederate soldiers and the museum, is a life-size gallows with the Confederate flag dangling from a noose. Created by a black artist from Detroit and titled “The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag,” the piece has brought an old debate to Florida anew.
One of a dozen displays of Confederate flag art by political artist John Sims, it’s part of an exhibit entitled AfroProvocations at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science that opened as part of Black History Month in February.”
The display also includes Confederate flags arranged in a cross, a Confederate flag displayed above a voting machine and a restaging of Grant Wood’s iconic American Gothic that shows a grim-faced Sims, arms crossed, standing next to a noose with the flag behind him.
Isn’t it the duty of art to create controversy and spark debate? Isn’t art’s mission to outrage and enlighten it’s audience. So why would we ever stifle that?
What say you?
Comments (2)« Previous Page — Next Page »