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Slain students honored at graduation

China Daily | Updated: 2007-05-14 07:03

Slain students honored at graduation

A Virginia Tech graduate student wears a memorial on her hat during the graduate commencement ceremony on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. Reuters

Virginia Tech's engineering school remembered with tears its three professors and 11 students slain by a gunman last month and cheered wounded student Kevin Sterne, who limped across the stage with a crutch to receive his diploma.

Sterne, shown in a now-famous photograph from the April 16 rampage being carried by rescue workers with a tourniquet around his wounded leg, got a standing ovation and loud cheers as he grinned and accepted his degree in electrical engineering on Saturday.

It was one of several campus ceremonies in which individual colleges and departments handed out diplomas to students, including posthumous degrees to those killed in the April 16 attack at a dormitory and classroom building.

Slain students honored at graduation

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