Articles filed under Northern Illinois University shooting
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Patients often stop psychiatric drugs, with sometimes tragic consequencesFeb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Psychiatrists say it's a common scenario -- troubled patients stop taking their medicine, because of cost, side effects, the stigma, or delusions that they don't need it...
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No 'instant' answers to hard questionsFeb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - In a society that demands instant gratification, it comes as little surprise that it also demands instant solutions to complex problems -- especially in an election year...
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Family, friends say farewell to NIU shooting victim ParmenterFeb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Dan Parmenter's fraternity brothers stood shoulder to shoulder to say goodbye in unison to their buddy. More than 50 members of the Northern Illinois University chapter ...
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We're only as safe as neighbors allowFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - We buy guns like we buy candy bars. Professional law enforcement get rigorous and continual training on how to handle weapons. But almost any citizen in the USA can bu...
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Police, families still seek 'why' in NIU shootingFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Family and friends have started burying the victims. Many of the wounded are healing, at least physically. Professors start back on campus today. But five days after ...
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Dad recounts son's heroic actions when NIU gunman struckFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Days after his death, Dan Parmenter is still making his father proud. The 20-year-old sophomore from Westchester was one of five people shot and killed at Northern Illin...
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Experts say it's time to fill in gaps of mental health systemFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Experts say the tragedy at Northern Illinois University Thursday where a former top student shot and killed five undergraduates is a call to action to fix gaps in the me...
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Sadness reigns at funeral for NIU rampage victimFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Hundreds of mourners sobbed silently Monday in Cicero, grieving a young life lost to senseless violence and the unfulfilled dream of Catalina Garcia. Garcia, 20, a 2006 ...
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When our worries turn to class safetyFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - My son spent a semester at ISU. I worried about him drinking, his grades, not getting up in time or even going to classes. It never occurred to me to worry about him be...
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Contempt is basic root of all injusticeFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - As a New York resident, my heart and sympathies goes out to the people devastated by the shooting rampage at NIU. This kind of horror has occurred all too often in our ...