Virginia Tech Students Make April 16 Documents Accessible

Posted on November 18, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Mike Dang

The whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This is what compelled Virginia Tech engineering student Justin Harrison to scan and post online thousands of documents relating to the April 16, 2007 campus shooting that resulted in the deaths of 32 students and teachers, reports The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Harrison got access to the boxes of documents in October after making two requests to VT officials. He and 10 volunteers put in countless hours to scan the documents and upload them to laptops.

“I want to see the full truth. I want to see the full information,” Harrison said. “It won’t be done for me until I get all the information up there so people can see with their own eyes what happened.”

The documents include police reports and letters from VT President Charles Steger, and can be found on the student-created site The Prevail Archive.

(Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education)

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One Response to “Virginia Tech Students Make April 16 Documents Accessible”

  1. debster on November 20th, 2008 5:53 pm

    Dear Justin,

    Thank you so much. You are one of the few at VT that have the courage and integrity to question what when so wrong on 4-16-07. Pres $teger & VT “leadership” spent 2+ hours delaying student notification. Following the homicides of 2 students & a “killer-at-large,” the murderer then had 3 hours to trap and gunned down 60 Hokies in 8 minutes, while $teger & policy group drank coffee.

    Since the massacre, VT officials have been lavished w raises, bonuses, promotions & awards. These rewards for gross incompetence are pathetic. As families of the murdered & injured, we sincerely thank you.

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