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Posted: 4/21/2007 6:56:50 AM EDT

www.english.vt.edu/

UnFucking believable..

Posted: 4/21/2007 6:58:58 AM EDT

[#1]

Looks like something a first grader would cook up.

Posted: 4/21/2007 6:59:53 AM EDT

[#2]

"Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
By a boulder
Dislodged
Because the land was destabilized"

I've got to call BS on that one.

Posted: 4/21/2007 6:59:59 AM EDT

[#3]

We are Virginia Tech

We are sad today
We will be sad for quite a while
We are not moving on
We are embracing our mourning

We are Virginia Tech

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly
We are brave enough to bend to cry
And we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again

We are Virginia Tech

We do not understand this tragedy
We know we did nothing to deserve it

But neither does a child in Africa
Dying of AIDS

Neither do the Invisible Children
Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army

Neither does the baby elephant watching his community
Be devastated for ivory
Neither does the Mexican child looking
For fresh water

Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs

Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
By a boulder
Dislodged
Because the land was destabilized

No one deserves a tragedy

We are Virginia Tech
The Hokie Nation embraces
Our own
And reaches out
With open heart and mind
To those who offer their hearts and hands

We are strong
And brave
And innocent
And unafraid

We are better than we think
And not yet quite what we want to be

We are alive to imagination
And open to possibility
We will continue
To invent the future

Through our blood and tears
Through all this sadness

We are the Hokies

We will prevail
We will prevail
We will prevail

We are
Virginia Tech

Nikki Giovanni, delivered at the Convocation, April 17, 2007

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In the English Department at Virginia Tech, we deeply mourn our students and colleagues who have lost their lives, and we grieve with the families and friends who have experienced such devastating loss. We extend our arms in love to these people and to our students who survive.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:00:36 AM EDT

[#4]

For an English home page, that reads for shit.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:01:14 AM EDT

[#5]

Now college students everywhere can believe they braved World War III for their education.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:02:22 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Looks like something a first grader would cook up.

+1

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:03:15 AM EDT

[#7]

"

Neither does the baby elephant"

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:03:30 AM EDT

[#8]

I'd be ashamed to read such a pablum filled piece of tripe, doubly so if I wrote it.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:08:47 AM EDT

[#9]

This is why no self-respecting Hokie majors in English..........Most of our idiot professors are in the Humanities department. Please don't judge the rest of us for some elitist leftwing tool.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:09:28 AM EDT

[#10]

Perfectly in keeping with their worldview.

I am amazed anyone here would be surprised.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:10:07 AM EDT

[#11]

So what high school does Nikki Giovanni go to?

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:10:34 AM EDT

[#12]

Now I understand where Cho's deranged writing came from more and more.

DO NOT GOTO VIRGINIA TECH FOR ENGLISH.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:11:11 AM EDT

[#13]

wow. That is REALLY bad.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:14:06 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
"Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
By a boulder
Dislodged
Because the land was destabilized"

I've got to call BS on that one.

Actually, that one is true. I'll try and find a link for you.

ETA: Link to story

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:17:47 AM EDT

[#15]

I still want to know what a "Hokie" is? Is it what you do before you get to Pokey?

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:21:37 AM EDT

[#16]

Originally Posted By Doctor M14:
I still want to know what a "Hokie" is? Is it what you do before you get to Pokey?

Here's what Virginia Tech says. Link

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:22:41 AM EDT

[#17]

Originally Posted By Doctor M14:
I still want to know what a "Hokie" is? Is it what you do before you get to Pokey?

It's what you do before you turn yourself around.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:23:52 AM EDT

[#18]

I was listening on the radio when the professor read that. It was well delivered. Lighten up a little guys. Granted, it ain't Shakespeare.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:24:39 AM EDT

[#19]

Originally Posted By Doctor M14:
I still want to know what a "Hokie" is? Is it what you do before you get to Pokey?

http://www.vt.edu/about/hokie.php

They say it was in use before, but don't know where it comes from. I would suggest the Lakota "HookaHey" may be the origin.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:24:56 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
So what ~~high~~ Grade school does Nikki Giovanni go to?

fixed it for you

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:30:42 AM EDT

[#21]

How sick and demented to not even wait until the dead are buried before you exploit your classmates' deaths by using them as a platform for every political issue you can think of.

Half of that entire passage had nothing at all to do with the tragedy.

How disgusting.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:35:56 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
How sick and demented to not even wait until the dead are buried before you exploit your classmates' deaths by using them as a platform for every political issue you can think of.

Nikki Giovanni is not a classmate. She is on staff at VTech. She is probably in her 60's. She was a revolutionary in the 60's.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:36:00 AM EDT

[#23]

that was painful.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:39:45 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
I'd be ashamed to read such a pablum filled piece of tripe, doubly so if I wrote it.

I watched her give that monologue during the service. After only a moment or two I was sitting there thinking to myself, "What the hell is this idiot talking about? Elephants in Africa? Rocks falling on infants?"

And to think she's "an award-winning poet and author."

Sheesh.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:40:26 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Originally Posted By Doctor M14:
I still want to know what a "Hokie" is? Is it what you do before you get to Pokey?

It's what you do before you turn yourself around.

LOLOLOL.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:41:28 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
How sick and demented to not even wait until the dead are buried before you exploit your classmates' deaths by using them as a platform for every political issue you can think of.

Nikki Giovanni is not a classmate. She is on staff at VTech. She is probably in her 60's. She was a revolutionary in the 60's.

www.umich.edu/~eng499/pics/giovanni.jpg

Yikes...............

Where is the 5:15 train to Philly when we really need it???!!!

EDIT: Check that. Upon further review I believe the train has already hit her. If not, I now understand where the expression "make a train take a dirt road" comes from.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:44:44 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
How sick and demented to not even wait until the dead are buried before you exploit your classmates' deaths by using them as a platform for every political issue you can think of.

Nikki Giovanni is not a classmate. She is on staff at VTech. She is probably in her 60's. She was a revolutionary in the 60's.

www.umich.edu/~eng499/pics/giovanni.jpg

To bad the train missed her in the pic.

Her writing is pathetic and rambling, not to mention disjointed, and places the tragedy at VT at the same level of an accident, an animal or some kid who is thirsty. Bad writing, but it shows the typical liberal thought process to a T.

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:45:43 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
I was listening on the radio when the professor read that. It was well delivered. Lighten up a little guys. Granted, it ain't Shakespeare.

I dont care how she delivered it, this is garbage pure and simple. What a wonderful world we send our children to for their higher education...

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:55:01 AM EDT

[#29]

She was a revolutionary in the 60's

why does this seem to make certain individuals qualified to teach?

lets not forget the room in an unnamed college in New York that is named after a cop killer.

sad to say to get a degree today you have to put up with liberal bull crap. every semester i had at least one professor who used an anti war or anti administration policy as a teaching tool.WTF i go to learn not hear your political views.

my favorite was the student who did the anti bush presentation, and said "he (bush) blew up the world trade center"

i got up and left the classroom...............

Posted: 4/21/2007 7:55:54 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
To bad the train missed her in the pic.

Her writing is pathetic and rambling, not to mention disjointed, and places the tragedy at VT at the same level of an accident, an animal or some kid who is thirsty. Bad writing, but it shows the typical liberal thought process to a T.

It no different that this garbage.

Most of what they call art these days is nothing but expression from the looney left.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:01:20 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:

Quoted:
"Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
By a boulder
Dislodged
Because the land was destabilized"

I've got to call BS on that one.

Actually, that one is true. I'll try and find a link for you.

ETA: Link to story

I'll be damned, poor kid.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:02:30 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Perfectly in keeping with their worldview.

I am amazed anyone here would be surprised.

Yup. The only thing that matters is their feelings. Those kind of people think that they are great, not because they have actually accomplished some great task, but merely because they believe that they are great.

No need to gain self-respect through hard work/sacrifice. Just give yourself instant self-esteem buy telling yourself you are great.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:03:21 AM EDT

[#33]

note that it is all the "fault" of humanity. The self-haters are now in charge, blaming everything from deliberate acts of evil to accidents on "humanity" and equating them all.

Professing themselves wise, they have become morons, and their thinking has become futile.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:04:30 AM EDT

[#34]

i am great, i am great, i am great

nope don't feel it, must be a lib thing

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:04:33 AM EDT

[#35]

Is that an example of Vogon poetry?

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:07:42 AM EDT

[#36]

Originally Posted By Doctor M14:
I still want to know what a "Hokie" is? Is it what you do before you get to Pokey?

I though it was "Hoagie." You know, like those big rolls that you make sammitches out of.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:15:03 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
It no different that this garbage.

Most of what they call art these days is nothing but expression from the looney left.

There are people who can use the left to their advantage. It is very easy to get away with selling "Only an Idot Would Buy This Piss and Shit on Canvas" for $3000.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:31:50 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It no different that this garbage.

Most of what they call art these days is nothing but expression from the looney left.

There are people who can use the left to their advantage. It is very easy to get away with selling "Only an Idot Would Buy This Piss and Shit on Canvas" for $3000.

Yeah, it's a new spin on the old "Kings new clothes" story.

You can write shit, paint shit and sculpt shit and then DARE anyone to be "Ignorant" and "Un-enlightened" enough to say they either don't "GET" it or that they think it's shit.

The ones who buy that sort of crap are trying to BUY themselves a "badge" proclaiming their intellectual and cultural "depth" (Becaue see...THEY GET it

) that they can display to the world knowing that most of the people who'll ever comment on it to them will be afraid to disclose that their new painting looks like a Monkey projectile-vomited into a pile of cow dung.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:32:13 AM EDT

[#39]

Sad.

I don't know if I would put that poetry as representative of my department.

You know what I think is funny? That the Federalist Papers and Constitution were written for 18th century farmers and commonfolk without a college education, but that most products of modern universities have trouble using big words from those documents in sentences.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:39:00 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:
How sick and demented to not even wait until the dead are buried before you exploit your classmates' deaths by using them as a platform for every political issue you can think of.

Nikki Giovanni is not a classmate. She is on staff at VTech. She is probably in her 60's. She was a revolutionary in the 60's.

www.umich.edu/~eng499/pics/giovanni.jpg

Now

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:43:51 AM EDT

[#41]

She's actually the one who had Cho removed from Her course back in '05 because she thought what he was writing was so F'd-up.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:49:12 AM EDT

[#42]

"Liberal Arts" & "Human Sciences" i.e. underwater basket weaving. Useless.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:51:39 AM EDT

[#43]

in jr. high and high school they had us learn a list of big words that are common in business and what not.

fast forward ten years later (now) and in English class i find the same words listed in my text book. but this time their asking me to unlearn them. in other words stop using them, and give me a list of words to use in their place.

It Was DumBed Down List!!!!

for years the standards have been lowered in some schools, that way everybody passes and timmy feels good about himself. the sad part is they make it easier, and kids still keoo failing, so what do they do? they dumb it down again. some school boards come up with new exams every year, and when you compare them they get easier and easier.

Posted: 4/21/2007 8:51:42 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
This is why no self-respecting Hokie majors in English..........Most of our idiot professors are in the Humanities department. Please don't judge the rest of us for some elitist leftwing tool.

The Virginia Tech English department is like every other English department of every other university; it is filled with leftist morons.

But don't worry, Virginia Tech is a special place in hell for leftist english professors. They spend most of their time having to read and grade the papers of right wing engineers like me who will never let them forget that their paycheck and their job exists because we are numerous and they are not.

They often bragged about giving out only one A to one student per semester. I was the one who always earned the A. It seemed to hurt some of them that they couldn't pigeon hole me into their stereotype for engineers. I guess I have to give them credit for not holding it against me too badly.

My Freshman year was 1984. It was the very first election I was able to vote in. I voted for Reagan. He won in a landslide. Our 5 hour Calculus professor, left the room in tears when she learned damned near all of us voted for Reagan.

Posted: 4/21/2007 9:01:38 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
She's actually the one who had Cho removed from Her course back in '05 because she thought what he was writing was so F'd-up.

I guess she dosent read her own writings..

Posted: 4/21/2007 9:14:55 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
She's actually the one who had Cho removed from Her course back in '05 because she thought what he was writing was so F'd-up.

Got link?

I hadnt heard it was her, I keep hearing about this Roy teacher.

Posted: 4/21/2007 9:25:44 AM EDT

[#47]

Why the hell would anybody go to a science and tech university to major in English? I mean, for humanities, we've got the widely renowned and respected UVA, and if you can get into one you can generally get into the other.

Posted: 4/21/2007 9:27:43 AM EDT

[#48]

Yeah the references to africa and AIDS and genocide sounded like just another bleeding heart liberal's call for a little more aid muna.

Figures.

Posted: 4/21/2007 9:29:14 AM EDT

[#49]

Posted: 4/21/2007 9:30:22 AM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:
Why the hell would anybody go to a science and tech university to major in English? I mean, for humanities, we've got the widely renowned and respected UVA, and if you can get into one you can generally get into the other.

Because there is a whole sea of social studies graduates who cannot find gainful employment anywhere outside the educational system.

The only people who want their "product" are moonbat university chancellors who themselves are incapable of producing anything needed or wanted in the real world.

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