Victims Remembered at Virginia Tech Graduation

By Adam Hochberg

Published May 12, 2007 at 5:00 AM PDT

Commencement ceremonies were bittersweet this weekend on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

The campus was the scene of last month's shooting rampage that left 32 victims dead.

Virginia Tech graduates remembered their classmates, and looked to the future, at Friday's graduation.

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Adam Hochberg

Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Adam Hochberg reports on a broad range of issues in the Southeast. Since he joined NPR in 1995, Hochberg has traveled the region extensively, reporting on its changing economy, demographics, culture and politics. He also currently focuses on transportation. Hochberg covered the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, followed candidates in three Presidential elections and reported on more than a dozen hurricanes.