Future Uncertain for Norris Hall

Angela Hatcher / WSLS NewsChannel 10
Published: April 23, 2007

Until last Monday, Norris Hall blended in with the rest of the Hokie Stone.

"I don't think I could ever go back into that building.", says Luke Sartori.

Luke Sartori takes a long hard look at the building. The shades are now pulled down. Luke sat in a classroom behind them last semester. he wants norris torn down.

"If I passed the building even if it was bricked up and knew it was the same on the inside as when everything happened it would be pretty intense I think."

Some of the crime tape is down, in a tangled heap, allowing the curious to get close enough to take pictures.

But metal posts and a chain link fence go up. A no trespassing sign warns not to get too close.

Roger Price, from Elliston, worries what will happen if they leave it standing.

"Just to see it and see what happened there like going inside of it I just don't know how people could take it.", says Price.

"Tearing the building down is allowing the evil to prevail and win.", says Beverly Bowman.

Beverly Bowman is a pastor from Lynchburg.

"To tear it down and say that's going to wipe it away, it doesn't wipe it away.", says Bowman. "If they do that it will always be, that's where the building was but the memory doesn't change."

"He didn't win, we're going to carry on and we're just erasing him by tearing the building down I think.", says Sartori.