When looking through the coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting one-year anniversary, it seemed two angles were shown. Most obviously, there were plenty of meaningful and touching memorials to the events of that day. Papers showed a town in reflection, and wounds that still had not healed. They showed photographs of the campus in remembrance of their friends lost. The tributes were stunning and a beautiful way show the positive that came out of the tragedy, the unity among the students, faculty. and community.
The second I noticed was more like a report card not just for Virginia Tech, but for universities around the country. Papers were "checking in" to see how other schools have been handling situations involving safety and depressed students on their campuses. Most notably, was the story of one student at Virginia Tech who committed suicide months after the tragedy, traumatized by what he had witnessed and feeling ignored by the school.
Both are necessary angles and appropriate to the event, clearly, one positive and one that could be taken either way.
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