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16 Years Ago

16 years ago, when I was a 22-year-old student at Queen’s University studying electrical engineering (computer option), Marc Lepine (nee Gamil Gharbi) entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and killed 14 women.

In these times, it’s tempting to argue about gender, politics and

philosophy — and hey, we probably should — but I’m going to leave

that for another day. I’d rather take a quiet moment to remember them

as women, as fellow engineering students and as human beings whose

lives were cut short.


Other perspectives:

Joey deVilla

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  • Good grief. Has it been that long? It seems like just a couple of years ago.

    I can't tell whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

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