October 25, 2007

Virginia Tech Starts a $1-Billion Campaign, Counting Memorial Donations Toward the Goal

By Erin Strout

Virginia Tech announced a $1-billion fund-raising campaign on Saturday night at an event that had been scheduled for last spring but was postponed because of the campus shootings on April 16—and officials said that donations collected in a memorial fund for the victims are being counted toward the campaign total.

Those gifts, which now amount to about $8-million, are being used for scholarships and for payments to the families of the 32 people killed and to others wounded in the

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