Colin Goddard and Omar Samaha protest guns on Virginia university grounds.
Campus gun safety rules questioned
By Maria Medina
Students with differing perspectives on gun rights are demonstrating at Radford University. Favoring rules that would allow concealed weapons on college campuses were about a dozen members of the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League and RU students. Opposing them were two students with first-hand experience of the Virginia Tech 2007 massacre: Colin Goddard (l) was shot four times on April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech. Omar Samaha lost a sister, Reema, on the day of the massacre. Both now advocate gun free schools.
New River expedition
By Tim Thornton
On the winding road between North Carolina mountain towns of West Jefferson and Boone, George Santucci is headed for the South Fork of the New River and the beginning of the 2011 New River Expedition. It’s a three-state trip from a creekside park in Boone to the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. It’s a chance to reconnect with the river, Santucci said, a chance to get people who don’t know the river out on it so they can see what a wonder it is.
Technicon
By H. Brad Haga
Twenty-nine years is a long time to be doing anything, especially the demanding volunteer work involved in running a small science fiction and fantasy convention. But even though the fans keep changing, the world keeps turning and Technicon lives on…
Technicon crew