Type in “Virginia Tech” into the search engine at YouTube, and the top entries, surprisingly and poignantly, pre-date last week’s horrific campus shootings.
There’s an arena-shaking clip of the 2003 Hokies football team rushing onto the field to the tune of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” against the Miami Hurricanes. And there’s a cute little video prank where some students run through the streets with giant cardboard boxes over their bodies.
Both of these clips got to me in a way a lot of the network news coverage of the shooting and its aftermath didn’t.