<p>From Scripps College:</p>
<p>April 17, 2007</p>
<p>Dear President Steger,</p>
<p>On behalf of the entire Scripps College community, I write to express our deep sympathy for the grievous losses suffered by the Virginia Tech community. The intrusion of violence into a place intended for instruction, debate, research and learning is profoundly disturbing to all of us in higher education. The taking of life in so violent, cruel and random a way leaves all of us asking those deep questions that animate the moral and religious perspectives.</p>
<p>We write now not with words of wisdom, since I know of none to offer, but to express our compassion, our sympathy and our wish that you and those on your campus will find the strength to carry on with your great mission. We write to let you know that far across the continent a community dedicated, as you are, to reason, to debate, to mutual understanding and support wishes you and your community the strength to heal, to help each other, and to persevere. Our thoughts are with your entire Virginia Tech family but especially with the families of those whose loved ones have been killed or wounded.</p>
<p>With profound sadness,</p>
<p>Nancy Y. Bekavac, President</p>