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Ryan Clark was the second person killed in the massacre at Virginia Tech yesterday.

Clark was a resident advisor at the dorm where the shootings began. He rushed in to respond to the shooting going on in his building when he encountered the shooter, a resident of this same dorm.

Ryan was set to graduate in May, with a dual degrees in biology and English. Today, he is one of 32 people whose lives were taken in an act of senseless violence.

Sadly, there are dozens of other eulogies being written in papers across the country for students and instructors killed in this madness, each of them discussing lost potential or lost accomplishment.

However, what also needs to be discussed is how this was allowed to go on so long without the university being put on higher alert. Now, we know that the shooter has been identified as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, an English major.

The shootings began in the dorm about 7:15 a.m. In addition to Ryan, a young woman, believed to be the shooter’s ex-girlfriend, was killed. Police say they thought it was a domestic dispute and believed that the shooter left campus, thus why no campus-wide alert. But, one has to ask, if you don’t have the gunman and he’s just killed two people, why would you risk him killing more?

So, nearly two hours later, the shooter walks into a building on the other side of campus, chains the doors shut and proceeds to kill another 30 people.

In the weeks and months ahead, Virginia Tech will have a lot of explaining to do and calls for accountability will be made.

In the meantime, there are families of 32 people who lost loved ones and my heart goes out to them.

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