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Banned from the Virginia Tech Campus

garycope — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:07:39 -0400

Did you know there is a website where you can see all the people banned from Virginia Tech’s campus? If you didn’t, you do now.

virginiatech: Look who stopped by the student calling center...

garycope — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:44:14 -0400

virginiatech:

Look who stopped by the student calling center last week on reading day!

Even as they prepared for final exams, our student callers were hard at work reaching out to alumni, parents, their fellow students, and friends of Virginia Tech to share with them the importance of investing in higher education.

We’re not sure how many calls the HokieBird was actually able to make because, as any Hokie knows, the HokieBird doesn’t talk.

Thanks for stopping by, HokieBird!

Oh HokieBird, you so CRAZY!

Support The Lyric’s Kickstarter project or the theater...

garycope — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:35:50 -0400

Support The Lyric’s Kickstarter project or the theater will be unable to show movies in the very near future. Hollywood is going digital and requiring theaters to get new projectors in order to show movies. Read more!

Listen to the Gos.

garycope — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:27:06 -0400

Listen to the Gos.

We’re going to go out on a limb and assume that Frank...

garycope — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:01:26 -0400

We’re going to go out on a limb and assume that Frank Beamer is the highest paid public employee in Virginia. Also, LOL at New Hampshire. Hockey. Heh.

virginiatech: vtpamplin: Happy Reading Day Hokies! Study...

garycope — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:06:42 -0400

virginiatech:

vtpamplin:

Happy Reading Day Hokies!

Study hard, Hokies!

And after you’ve (hopefully) passed all your finals, enjoy your summer!

Hokie parenting FTW

garycope — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:09:56 -0400

Hokie parenting FTW

asilatheseamonster: Omg I just woke up form a dream that I decided to go to UVA over Virginia tech....

garycope — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:30:21 -0400

asilatheseamonster:

Omg I just woke up form a dream that I decided to go to UVA over Virginia tech. It was the worst feeling ever. Good thing I woke up.

ohtheandrogyny: How badass does my rugby team look?! Also, new...

garycope — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:37:58 -0400

ohtheandrogyny:

How badass does my rugby team look?! Also, new uniforms(:

Virginia Tech’s women’s rugby team in all new uniforms. Lookin’ sharp, Hokies!

monogramsandmargaritasblog: Morning Sunshine at Virginia...

garycope — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:14:39 -0400

monogramsandmargaritasblog:

Morning Sunshine at Virginia Tech.

Great photo!

Who wants a Frank Beamer-autographed football?

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:03:42 -0400

Attention Virginia Tech Hokie football fans!

Have you ever wanted to own a Frank Beamer-autographed football? Well here’s your chance! The Giles County Autism Focus Group will be auctioning a Virginia Tech gift basket that includes a football signed by non other than Frank Beamer.

The auction will take place at the group’s Autism Walk on Saturday May 4. Visit their Facebook page for more information.

The funds raised will be used to increase awareness about Autism and provide educational tools for local schools to use for children with Autism.

Kudos to VT for being both hot and smart. That aside, can...

maryanne — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:32:00 -0400

Kudos to VT for being both hot and smart.

That aside, can someone tell the world that “Virginia Tech University” isn’t actually a thing? It’s Virginia Tech or Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The end. Get it right, get it tight, people.

Hokie parenting; you’re doing it right.

garycope — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:03:12 -0400

Hokie parenting; you’re doing it right.

DateSunday, Sept. 15, 2013 @ 7 a.m. Additional Date Information...

garycope — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:50:54 -0400

Date
Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013 @ 7 a.m.

Additional Date Information
7 a.m. Hokie Half start time
7:20 a.m. 5K start time

Address
VT Corporate Research Center
1701 Kraft Drive Blacksburg, VA 24060

Fees
Entry fee includes bus transportation to and from the start/ finish, parking, race, shirt, post race food, finisher medal and commemorative gift.

Registration Closing Date
Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 @ 11:59 p.m. PST

Website Links
Registration: http://nrv.me/hokiehalf
Course Map: http://nrv.me/hokiehalfmap

It’s a beautiful day for football is Blacksburg!

garycope — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:07:11 -0400

It’s a beautiful day for football is Blacksburg!

six years.

briancolligan — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:15:23 -0400

unutterable-visions:

I have been thinking about this post for two weeks.

april is a difficult time of year for me. it has become a countdown of sorts. a mourning period. ”today’s, what, the sixth? ten days until the sixteenth.”

ten days until. four days until. tomorrow. today.

six years ago, today.

everything about that day is as vivid six years later as it was that frigid morning.

the way my spanish teacher got up from her perch on the desk in front of me to watch the line of police cars tear down the street, 120 miles an hour, sirens wailing.

the headline on my friend’s msn homepage that screamed MASSACRE.

the moment my heart stopped beating when I saw the hokie stone in the photos behind the bleeding students being carried out of norris hall.

all I wanted to do was get in my car and drive to my school. my home. the only place I had ever known as safe. the place I associated with my grandparents and football and some of the happiest memories I had ever had in my young life.

people still tell me that I don’t deserve to feel as deeply about today as I do, or that I’ll never understand what it was like, because I wasn’t there. but let me try to explain something to you.

there are 27,000 students at virginia tech. 32 students and professors were killed when a gunman entered their classrooms and opened fire for no apparent reason. that may seem like a small percentage. and I was not there that day. and yet:

mary read was my friend’s freshman roommate.

caitlin hammaren was my friend’s sorority sister.

austin cloyd was good friends with one of my close friends. my ex-boyfriend also knew her well and took her as his date to his senior prom.

henry lee attended high school here across town with another friend of mine. they knew each other well.

my mother is one of the best public relations people in the state. she worked with larry hincker for several years doing PR for the virginia tech grad school in the early 80s. the media response to april 16th was so overwhelming that larry called her personally to come help field calls and interviews. she worked unpaid 18-hour days for a week after that, giving statements to australia and china and france, going to debriefings with katie couric, getting coffee with wolf blitzer.

when she arrived in blacksburg that first day somebody (I still don’t know who, dr. steger or larry or somebody) informed her that they still had not reached two victims’ families. my mother was the one that finally spoke to julia pryde’s sister and had to tell her that her brilliant sister had been murdered in cold blood while she sat in class on a typical monday morning.

when I became a virginia tech student in the fall of 2007, I moved into a dorm with one of the survivors. when I joined my sorority in the spring of 2009, I became sisters with two survivors.

it is hard for me to put into words what I feel about this day. it is hard to explain what it means, what it’s changed about me. the things I’ve written above, I’ve never told anyone before.

virginia tech is a community unlike any other. we stand together, stronger than we have ever been. we laugh together, we cry together, we remember together. and this day, I think, is not just about our own remembering. it is about remembering our friends and loved ones that lost their friends. today I think not only about my own sadness and the way in which my own life changed, but the sadness I know my friends must feel in remembering the loss of their friends, their sisters, their roommates.

and that is the hokie spirit. that is living for 32.

For you, Mary. Since you can’t be here, I stopped by and...

garycope — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:06:49 -0400

For you, Mary. Since you can’t be here, I stopped by and said hi to Ryan for you.

vtpamplin: “While 32 of our friends and classmates are in...

garycope — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:49:28 -0400

vtpamplin:

“While 32 of our friends and classmates are in Heaven trying to explain what a Hokie is, I stand here sure of the fact that I wouldn’t want to be anything else.”

Photo by Jim Stroup

Amen.

Nikki Giovanni’s “We Are Virginia Tech” poem...

garycope — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:00:29 -0400

Nikki Giovanni’s “We Are Virginia Tech” poem following the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech.

hissweetsouthernlovin: A truly wonderful experience...

garycope — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:00:21 -0400

hissweetsouthernlovin:

A truly wonderful experience ❤

It’s hard to believe it’s been six years and still, we will neVer forgeT.