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Lampert Smith: Parents live with fear for children

For parents of students away at college, the news Monday that 32 students were gunned down at Virginia Tech hit hard.

It’s not like we don’t already have enough things to fret about: Are they eating properly? Studying? In love? Depressed?

And why don’t they ever call?

I’m sure cell phones were ringing all over the UW- Madison campus, and others, as the news spread about the Virginia Tech shootings. On the students’ phones, the word “Mom” lit up.