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The school received international attention after one of its seniors, Seung-Hui Cho, massacred thirty-two students and faculty on April 16, 2007.  Cho had written and submitted as coursework disturbing papers that, in hindsight, appeared to reflect an unstable person obsessed with violence.

The school received international attention after one of its seniors, Seung-Hui Cho, massacred thirty-two students and faculty on April 16, 2007.  Cho had written and submitted as coursework disturbing papers that, in hindsight, appeared to reflect an unstable person obsessed with violence.

<div align="center">[[Image:800px-2007 Virginia Tech massacre candlelight vigil.jpg|400px|thumb|center|Students gather for a prayer vigil after the massacre that took thirty-two lives]]</div>

<div align="center">[[Image:800px-2007 Virginia Tech massacre candlelight vigil.jpg|400px|thumb|center|Virginia Tech students gather for a prayer vigil after the 4/16/2007 massacre that took thirty-two lives.]]</div>

==Athletics==

==Athletics==

[[Image:450px-2006 Clemson at Virginia Tech celebration.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Students celebrate on the drillfield following Tech's 2006 victory over then #10 [[Clemson University]].]]Virginia Tech's sports teams compete in the [[Atlantic Coast Conference]], which they joined in 2004, along with [[University of Miami|Miami]] and, later, [[Boston College]].  Tech's [[American football|football]] team competed for a national title against [[Florida State University|Florida State]] following the 1999 season and in 2004, captured the ACC crown in its first year in the conference.  The [[college basketball|men's basketball]] team, after a ten-year drought, returned to the [[NCAA tournament]] following the 2006-07 season.  In 2007, Tech's softball team shut out [[Georgia Tech]] 2-0 to capture the ACC championship and in golf, the Hokies split the conference title with the Yellow Jackets that year.

[[Image:450px-2006 Clemson at Virginia Tech celebration.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Students celebrate on the drillfield following Tech's 2006 victory over then #10 [[Clemson University]].]]Virginia Tech's sports teams compete in the [[Atlantic Coast Conference]], which they joined in 2004, along with [[University of Miami|Miami]] and, later, [[Boston College]].  Tech's [[American football|football]] team competed for a national title against [[Florida State University|Florida State]] following the 1999 season and in 2004, captured the ACC crown in its first year in the conference.  The [[college basketball|men's basketball]] team, after a ten-year drought, returned to the [[NCAA tournament]] following the 2006-07 season.  In 2007, Tech's softball team shut out [[Georgia Tech]] 2-0 to capture the ACC championship and in golf, the Hokies split the conference title with the Yellow Jackets that year.