On a quiet, snowy Friday, November 1, 1991, the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City was shattered by an act of violence that claimed the life of 44-year-old White male, Dwight R. Nicholson. A professor and the chairman of the Physics and Astronomy Department, Nicholson was one of five people killed by Gang Lu, a 28-year-old former graduate student.
The tragic events began to unfold in the late afternoon in Van Allen Hall. Lu, who had received his Ph.D. from the university months earlie
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