March 7, 2008
Virginia Tech Researchers Study Effects of Shootings on Their Campus
Now that the television-news trucks have pulled away from Northern Illinois University, some professors there may find themselves compelled to process the recent mass shooting in the best way they know how: by studying it.
The impulse is half-personal, half-professional. "For a lot of faculty, I think this is a way of coping," says John Ryan, a sociologist who studies community responses to violence. "Whatever line of work you're in, that's where you go to try to understand
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