Virginia Tech President Charles W. Steger in 2007 viewing a memorial to students slain on campus that year when a gunman killed 32 and then himself. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) said he knew Dr. Steger “not only as an advocate for Virginia Tech, but for educational opportunity for all Virginians, at every level.”Charles W. Steger, president of Virginia Tech University, in 2007. In the hours and days that followed, Dr. Steger led Virginia Tech through a period of mourning after what he called a “tragedy . In 2012, Dr. Steger testified in a wrongful-death suit brought by parents of two Norris Hall victims. “Perhaps it is self-evident, but the most significant emergency will occur without warning,” Dr. Steger wrote.

Source: Washington Post May 07, 2018 20:12 UTC