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To: LindyBill who wrote (203059)	4/17/2007 8:04:53 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794129

This is precisely what my teaching friend does in a practice lockdown in her classroom in Virginia. Paper over the windows in doors, lights off and students to the furtherest point out of view of the door. The teacher positions him or herself between the door and the students Professor Liviu Librescu gave the ultimate gift---- "Best of the Web Today - April 17, 2007 By JAMES TARANTO He Died Saving His Class For those of us whose job it is to have opinions, an event like yesterday's massacre at Virginia Tech is a bigger challenge than, say, a terrorist attack. The murder of 32 people by South Korea native Cho Seung-hui is no less evil than massacres carried out by suicide bombers or hijackers, but it is harder to comprehend. Terrorism is carried out by an organized enemy with a political agenda; we can rally to defeat the enemy. The Virginia Tech shooter seems to have been a lone nut. He murdered all those people only to render his own life a nullity by committing suicide in the end. So let's just note one act of heroism amid the horror, as reported by the Jerusalem Post: Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter when the [murderer] attempted to enter his classroom. "The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, "but all the students lived--because of him," Virginia Tech student Asael Arad--also an Israeli--told Army Radio. Several of Librescu's other students sent e-mails to his wife, Marlena, telling of how he had blocked the gunman's way and saved their lives, said Librescu's son, Joe. "My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. "Students started opening windows and jumping out." Librescu was a Holocaust survivor who escaped communist Romania for Israel in 1978 and moved to Virginia in 1986. By coincidence, he was murdered on Holocaust Remembrance Day.'' mj