Deceased student

I posted an entry here a couple of days ago about hearing from the niece of a former student who had been killed in a car wreck. I decided to remove the post, as it brought this space into a more personal kind of reflection than I want it to have. One of the characteristics of blogs, and the web generally, is that once something is written, it can be modified--unless, as with the "Jeff Gannon" business noted elsewhere, it's become so notorious that people save the cached material. In this case, I would like to stick closer to rhetoric and visual rhetoric, so I'm deleting the other material.