Israeli killed in Virginia massacre

[Scurrilous]

One of victims in Virginia Tech shooting rampage Monday is Prof Liviu Librescu, senior researcher at university. Librescu was killed after he stayed behind his class to block door and protect students. Massacre claimed lives of 32 people

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388753,00.html

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"Prof Liviu Librescu, a senior researcher and lecturer at Virginia Tech, is among the 32 people who were killed during a shooting rampage at the university Monday.

His wife, Marlina, and two sons, Arieh and Joe, have already begun making arrangements for his burial in Israel.

One of Prof Librescu's students, Alec Calhoun, who was with him at the classroom when the shooting started, told AP that at about 9:05 am, he and classmates heard "a thunderous sound from the classroom next door, what sounded like an enormous hammer."

When students realized the sounds were gunshots, Calhoun said, they started flipping over desks for hiding places. Others dashed to the windows of the second-floor classroom, kicking out the screens and jumping from the ledge of the room.

Calhoun said that just before he climbed out the window, he turned to look at the professor (Librescu), who had stayed behind to block the door."

[Ignacio Upton]

1. His webpage is still up as if nothing happened:

http://www.esm.vt.edu/php/person.php?id=10023

[Johnny Appleseed]

7. ...

Well dah... the U prolly isn't too keen on firing up the ftp and changing it just yet.

[lapfog_1]

8. Click on "home" for the home page of the Eng Dept.

they have a message up... and also list Prof. Kevin Granata.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Ironic

an israeli with army training reacts this way, and a kid from the west bank records the whole thing for CNN...

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Murdered an Elastician. None of this makes any sense.

When will all this killing stop?

[Ignacio Upton]

4. The Professor also survived Ceausescu's reign

Prof Librescu and his wife are both Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978.

Librescu was an accomplished scientist in Romania, and the Communist regime had tried to prevent him from making aliyah to Israel. He was allowed to leave the country only after the Israeli prime minister at the time Menachem Begin appealed the matter to President Nicolae Ceausescu.

[aquart]

6. What an ironic journey.

What an amazing man he must have been.

[babylonsister]

5. "Collateral damage"? What a messed up term for killing. nt

[caligirl]

9. An incredible story and I just hope * and his best freind Liberman don't abuse it politically.

But they will.