Iowa City News Links: the Gang Lu Shootings after 20 Years

Gang Lu Shootings After 20 Years

A PDF from the Daily Iowan's edition following the shooting is attached to this article.

Matt Starns of the Daily Iowan writes that the University of Iowa campus is safer after the Gang Lu shootings 20 years ago.

Emily Schettler of the Iowa City Press-Citizen also wrote about the changes to the university after the shooting.

Chris Earl of SourceMedia Group News also wrote about the anniversary.

Here's a great LA Times story recounting the shootings. 

The University's University's Spectator had an article about the after effects.

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Brian Dykstra took the stand today as his murder trial is coming to a close.

Angie Holmes of the Gazette that personal chefs are becoming more popular for busy families.

The District 18 Senate candidates have both come out against the proposed gas tax.

Michele Bachmann needs to hire this guy back so she can fire him.

It looks like Iowans are going to forgive Herman Cain for whatever indiscretions he did or not do.

Daily Links Excerpt (of the Day) Kathie Staley can pinpoint the moment her professional career changed.

In the days after the Nov. 1, 1991, shooting on the University of Iowa campus that left six dead and one woman a quadriplegic, Staley and her colleagues at the University Counseling Service had to help everyone make sense of it all and try to move on.

“That was a turning point, because before that time, we had not been asked to do a crisis debriefing,” Staley said. “We had not been asked to do a death debriefing in the years I’d been there. That’s where I’d learned how to do crisis work.”