April 17, 2007 – Natalia A.

From “The Fourth State of Matter”

“There are stars and stars and stars. The sky is full of dead men, drifting in the blackness like helium balloons.” – Jo Ann Beard.

Remember all the victims at VT; Remember Liviu Librescu

Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, died saving his students this past Monday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day. “A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.” – Elie Wiesel.

How strange and sad

When I watched the news on Virginia Tech last night, I was reminded of Jo Ann Beard’s nonfiction essay: “The Fourth State of Matter.” In 1991, there was a mass murder at the University of Iowa. The perpetrator was a graduate student named Gang Lu; he was in the Physics Department, where Beard was managingContinue reading “How strange and sad”