VIRGINIA TECH: LARCENY?

There were reports, never denied by the school, that if contributors did not write Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund on the check’s memo line, the money was deposited in the school’s general fund. There were also reports, again never denied by the school, that Virginia Tech informally told major contributors not to contribute until after the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund closed because the money would then go directly to the school. The families would not see a penny of it, nor would the scholarships that were set up to memorialize those killed. Even with regard to the $8.5 million in the fund, the families had next to no say in how the money was distributed or how it was spent. 

With the handling of the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, the Virginia Tech school administrators sank to an all-time low repugnant behavior—a willingness to line the school’s pockets on the murder of 32 people. (To be continued)