Va. Tech classrooms to be used for peace center

[underpants]

Source: MSNBC

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The Virginia Tech classroom wing where a student gunman killed 30 people and himself and wounded two dozen others last spring will be turned into a place to study peace, the school announced Thursday.

Having vowed never again to use Norris Hall for general classes, school officials said the rooms will house the new Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention.

"It was an opportunity for something new and different and hopeful to emerge," said Provost Mark McNamee, who headed a campus task force that reviewed proposals for the use of Norris Hall.

Besides the peace center, the second-floor classrooms where Seung-Hui Cho killed 30 of his 32 victims will host an interactive learning space.

The center will occupy about a quarter of the 4,300 square feet of the second-floor space, which be ready for occupancy next fall.



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[demnan]

1. Wow! Cool!

They took a page from Kucinich's book, I guess

[LostinVA]

2. Terrific

[underpants]

3. Yeah I think this is a really good idea

Well done

[Virginia Dare]

4. That's really wonderful..

I visited the memorial just outside Norris several months back, it's very beautiful and moving.