Quoted: Va. Tech's Planned Peace Center

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"IT SENDS A MESSAGE that even out of the worst tragedy that one can imagine, you can build something that is very positive."

— Mark G. McNamee, the provost at Virginia Tech, on the school's decision to turn part of Norris Hall, the site of the shootings that killed 30 students and faculty members in April, into a Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention.

The peace center will take up 1,000 square feet of the building's 4,300-square-foot second floor, where the rampage took place, The Post's Theresa Vargas reports. The rest of the space will be used by the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics for seminar space, conference rooms and " a state-of-the-art communications technology section that it will share with the center," Vargas writes.

» "Va. Tech's Norris Hall To House Peace Center" [WaPo]