crawfish
09-03-2007, 03:57 PM
(Source: CARL DUBOIS, BR Advocate sportswriter)
Each of us has our own parameters of sensitivity. Each has a different idea of what feels appropriate in paying respects to someone else’s pain and loss. Nobody has to tell LSU officials. They spent much of the summer carefully considering Saturday’s home football game against Virginia Tech and how best to honor the memory of those killed in the April 16 shootings on Tech’s campus. Herb Vincent, LSU senior associate athletic director, said the school will announce soon how it plans to recognize Virginia Tech’s painful spring and its aftermath. No matter what LSU does, it’s a good bet some will find it insufficient, some will find it perfectly respectful and others will find it exploitative and inappropriate.
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The ESPN “College GameDay” coverage last weekend for the Hokies’ season-opening 17-7 victory over East Carolina showed us some of the catharsis Saturday in Blacksburg, Va., a close-knit town where it’s impossible to divine a difference between the community and the college community. There was a healing in coming together to do something normal again, something on a big scale that annually brings together that community. Now the Hokies say they look forward to the rest of the season being mostly about football.
LSU understands what it’s like to carry a community, a state and a region on its back for a few hours a week in the search for escape, for healing, for normalcy. That’s why LSU wants to do the right things this week for Virginia Tech. The Golden Band from Tigerland will play Virginia Tech’s alma mater, marking what LSU officials think will be a first in Tiger Stadium. We’ll soon find out what else LSU plans for Saturday’s game. Read the rest of the article (http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/9541552.html)
Each of us has our own parameters of sensitivity. Each has a different idea of what feels appropriate in paying respects to someone else’s pain and loss. Nobody has to tell LSU officials. They spent much of the summer carefully considering Saturday’s home football game against Virginia Tech and how best to honor the memory of those killed in the April 16 shootings on Tech’s campus. Herb Vincent, LSU senior associate athletic director, said the school will announce soon how it plans to recognize Virginia Tech’s painful spring and its aftermath. No matter what LSU does, it’s a good bet some will find it insufficient, some will find it perfectly respectful and others will find it exploitative and inappropriate.
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The ESPN “College GameDay” coverage last weekend for the Hokies’ season-opening 17-7 victory over East Carolina showed us some of the catharsis Saturday in Blacksburg, Va., a close-knit town where it’s impossible to divine a difference between the community and the college community. There was a healing in coming together to do something normal again, something on a big scale that annually brings together that community. Now the Hokies say they look forward to the rest of the season being mostly about football.
LSU understands what it’s like to carry a community, a state and a region on its back for a few hours a week in the search for escape, for healing, for normalcy. That’s why LSU wants to do the right things this week for Virginia Tech. The Golden Band from Tigerland will play Virginia Tech’s alma mater, marking what LSU officials think will be a first in Tiger Stadium. We’ll soon find out what else LSU plans for Saturday’s game. Read the rest of the article (http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/9541552.html)