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Its English Department has received some attention after one of its seniors, [[Seung-Hui Cho]], massacred 32 students and faculty on April 16, 2007.  Cho had written and submitted as coursework disturbing papers that, in hindsight, appear to reflect an unstable person obsessed with violence.

Its English Department has received some attention after one of its seniors, [[Seung-Hui Cho]], massacred 32 students and faculty on April 16, 2007.  Cho had written and submitted as coursework disturbing papers that, in hindsight, appear to reflect an unstable person obsessed with violence.

VPI was founded in 1872 as the Virginia Agricultural and Mining College, with a president and three professors: one each in English; natural philosophy and chemistry; and technical agriculture and mechanics. By 1895 the student body had grown to 400 and the name was changed to "The Virginia Polytechnic Institute."<ref>Heatwole, Cornelius Jacob (1916), ''A History of Education in Virginia,'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=BuscAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA204&dq=%22virginia+polytechnic+institute%22&as_brr=1#PPA207,M1 pp. 204-7]</ref>

VPI was founded in 1872 as the Virginia Agricultural and Mining College, with 132 students, a president and three professors: one each in English; natural philosophy and chemistry; and technical agriculture and mechanics. By 1895 the student body had grown to 400 and the name was changed to "The Virginia Polytechnic Institute."<ref>Heatwole, Cornelius Jacob (1916), ''A History of Education in Virginia,'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=BuscAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA204&dq=%22virginia+polytechnic+institute%22&as_brr=1#PPA207,M1 pp. 204-7]</ref> Military training has always been a feature of VPI; all students were cadets when it opened in 1872.<ref>[http://www.vtcc.vt.edu/About/History/ Tech Corps of Cadets: History]</ref>  

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