An April 22 Style article incorrectly reported that a Virginia Tech student killed 32 classmates. He killed 27 Twenty-seven students and five faculty members. were killed in the attack.
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In Tragedy's Shadow
Fog shrouds the campus of Virginia Tech Friday morning. "People understand that the students, and the university, in a way, were victims," says Thomas C. Tillar Jr., an alumni relations official.
(By Mary Altaffer -- Associated Press)
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Hoki, Hoki, Hoki, Hy.
Techs, Techs, V.P.I.
Sola-Rex, Sola-Rah.
Polytechs - Vir-gin-ia.
Rae, Ri, V.P.I.
A few years later, a coach said his football team gobbled their chow, which in legend led to the nickname "Gobblers," which led to a guy who trained a turkey to gobble on command and to pull him around the football stadium in a cart. There is no explaining this. You just have to be from the country to know that a trained turkey, college football and bellowing fans is combustible genius.
Buried out here in the back end of Virginia, an intense if not prickly pride was born. Tech, Moo U -- with the veterinary school, the ag-engineering majors -- was always the poorer cousin to the literature and classics majors over at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, which didn't even use livestock for the school mascot.
From the Fiske Guide to Colleges, as quoted in the Los Angeles Times last week:
"The annual 'big game' pits the backwoodsy Hokies against the aristocratic, snobby Cavaliers from the University of Virginia."
To this day, those traditions persist, with Tech always trying to make up ground to its richer, in-state collegiate cousins. U.S. News and World Report, in its 2007 college rankings, puts U-Va. at No. 24 and the College of William and Mary (in Williamsburg) at No. 31.
Virginia Tech, after years of up-and-coming progress, is tied for 77th.
That's not bad, especially when you consider the in-state tuition for undergrads is $5,772, and Tech outranks the University of Tennessee, Auburn and so on, and that the engineering school ranks in the top 10 for public universities.
