Nationwide Orange and Maroon Day
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I thank all of you for donning the Maroon and Orange and for your efforts to support all of those affected by the tragedy that struck last week at Virginia Tech. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed and the entire VT community, as well as the city of Blacksburg and state of Virginia are grateful to have such caring and benevolent comrades.

I encourage you all to continue to wear the Maroon and Orange for the coming weeks and thank you once again for all your support.

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Nationwide Orange and Maroon Day
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I thank all of you for donning the Maroon and Orange and for your efforts to support all of those affected by the tragedy that struck last week at Virginia Tech. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed and the entire VT community, as well as the city of Blacksburg and state of Virginia are grateful to have such caring and benevolent comrades.

I encourage you all to continue to wear the Maroon and Orange for the coming weeks and thank you once again for all your support.

Dustin

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UVa students,

Be sure to buy a "Hoos for Hokies" for T-shirt tomorrow. All proceeds will go straight to Tech and their memorial fund.

Please check-out the following websites for more information on how to help those at Tech.
www.vttragedy.com
www.vtincident.com

Annotated from a letter from UVa President John Casteen to the University Community:

The shootings this morning at Virginia Tech have turned a seemingly normal day into one filled with grief and disbelief. For U.Va., especially on this day, Virginia Tech is family. Many of us have parents, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, and friends who study, teach, or work in Blacksburg. Many of us are Tech alumni.

Our hearts are with Virginia Tech and its many families today, and they will be so long into the future as we remember this awful day. Our thoughts and prayers belong to those who must deal tonight and in future days with a grief that must seem almost more than mind and spirit can bear. Together, we extend our sympathy, concern, and fellow feeling for lives destroyed and bodies broken today and for families and classmates and faculty members who must go on despite these losses.

In the course of this day, we have offered support and assistance as Virginia Tech may need them from us. This offer includes providing psychological support services, other medical assistance, and any other support that may be useful to Virginia Tech. We will stay in close touch with President Steger and those who must now work with him to restore the Tech community. Members of our own community will be affected directly and indirectly by the senselessness and magnitude of what has happened, perhaps more so in coming days as victims' names and attachments become known. We look forward to serving those persons as well.

However near to or far from Virginia Tech and its people each of us may be in kinship or other attachments, today's events take enormous emotional tolls, and not all of these costs are obvious immediately. Faculty members and staff members know this from prior experience. They want to help. They are themselves as mindful of human loss and grief-struck as students and their families are. Their common commitment to the University is first and foremost to our students.

Few deal easily with shock and grief in isolation. Talk together. Students, call home. Parents, call your daughters and your sons. Listen and talk to one another, and in that contact seek the beginnings of solace and comfort.

At 2 p.m. tomorrow in Blacksburg, Virginia Tech will hold its convocation. Along with student leaders and members of our Board of Visitors, I will attend to express our common respect and concern. Also at 2 p.m., the Chapel bells here on the Grounds will toll for five minutes. I urge all within the sound of the bells to pause, reflect, and each in her or his own way express sorrow for the losses that so many families are now discovering.

Again, at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, the Chapel bells will toll for five minutes as students, faculty members and staff, and I gather in the McIntire Amphitheatre in a candlelight vigil to honor the memories and lives of those killed and injured this morning and to express our support for our counterparts at Virginia Tech, for their families, and for their friends.

Caleb Euhus, a student from Lynchburg, wrote a poem today entitled "Tech Wind." He sent a copy this afternoon, and he agreed to my sharing its argument and some words from it with you. He invokes today's fierce winds to combat and assuage the horror and anger that all thoughtful women and men must feel about today's catastrophe in Blacksburg. Echoing sentiments as old as Lamentations, Mr. Euhus calls on nature itself -- the very wind -- to share this grief. The poem ends with the lines "Make haughty grass bow down its stalk/And mourn for all those killed." Mr. Euhus speaks for all of us.