Pern State Hazleton Collegian
lOWA CITY, lOWA --A graduate stu
dent at the University of lowa went on
a shooting rampage, Friday, November
1, after his dissertation was passed
over for an academic award.
Gang Lu, 28, was attending a
weekly meeting of the physics and
astronomy department, when he left
the room and returned brandishing a
.38-caliber revolver. He opened fire at
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"The Reaper"
In the opera tingroomwhen
technologyfails
When there’s no longerwind left
inyousails
He comes to takeyou to a foreign
land
Youreachouttotakehisboney
hand
To travel through the darkand
the mire
Arrive in lightorbum infire
Your fate is revealed in his empty
eyes
Thesoullivesforeverorslowly
dies
Thatsinful life it’s time to pay
TheßeaperdealsJusticeon
JudgementDay.
-Daniel Walker
point-blank range killing four people in
the room.
Among those killed was Linhua
Shan, the student who won the award
that Gang Lu had failed to receive.
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Others lolled were department
chairman Dwight Nicholson, professor
Christoph K. Goertz, and associate
professor Robert Alan Smith.
According to witnesses, Lu Ihen
left Ihe room only to return a few
minutes later to make sure all were
dead. He found Smith still alive and
shot him again.
Gang Lu went to another building
where he killed T. Anne Cleary, an
administrator with whom he had filed
a complaint about the award nomina
tion process, and wounded a secre
tary before turning the weapon on
himself.
Lu was described as "...quite
relaxed," by a witness. "He was pretty
determined," added Paul Hansen who
was with Lu at the time of the
shooting.
The secretary, Miya Rodolfo-
Sioson, is in critical condition.
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