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Asian-American students at Virginia Tech reacted to news about the gunman's identity with shock and a measure of anxiety about a possible backlash against them.
"My parents are actually worried about retaliation against Asians," said Lyu Boaz, a third-year accounting student who was born in South Korea and became an American citizen a year ago. "After 9/11, a lot of Arabs were attacked for that reason."
Mr. Boaz, a resident adviser at Pritchard Hall, said many Korean-American students had left campus immediately. Parents of other Korean-American students were preparing to pick up their children on Tuesday afternoon and take them home. -- Yoshie