Virginia Tech to reopen hall where Cho shot students

by Kaitlin | June 5, 2007 at 08:51 am | 500 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

norris hall - where the horrible massacre happened

Norris Hall, the building where Seung-Hui Cho shot thirty Virginia Tech students and himself on April 16, is set to be reopened later this month. The decision to reopen was handed down by Virginia Tech President Charles Steger. Steger was heavily criticized in the days following the shooting for what some considered poor response time in warning students about the gunman after the first shootings in West Ambler Hall, which killed Emily Hilscher and Ryan Clark.

The building will be opened June 18 for the Engineering Science and Mechanics and Civil and Environmental Engineering departments. They had been the primary occupants of the building April 16, when student Cho killed 32 students and faculty members on campus.

Following the shootings, dozens of faculty, students, alumni and others contacted the school with suggestions for use of the building, ranging from using it as classroom space to making it a memorial to knocking it down.