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Virginia Tech Med School Student Battles Cancer With Help From Friend Virginia Tech Med School Student Battles Cancer With Help From Friend
Virginia Tech Med School Student Battles Cancer With Help From Friend Hirad Khoshravesh might not have biological family in the United States, but it's clear his peers consider him as such. The Virginia Tech Ph.D. student has a reoccurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which is a cancer in the back of the nose, that has spread throughout his body, his friend Shiva Ghasemi said.  Hirad KhoshraveshKhoshravesh's GoFundMe and Facebook Pages Ghasemi is urging those who have met Khoshravesh and those who just want to help, to donate to his GoFundMe to alleviate upcoming medical expenses.  Khoshravesh currently has very few acquaintances in Blacksburg where he …

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Former Virginia Tech Football Player Pleads Not Guilty In Tinder Date's Beating Death: Report Former Virginia Tech Football Player Pleads Not Guilty In Tinder Date's Beating Death: Report
Former Virginia Tech Football Player Pleads Not Guilty In Tinder Date's Beating Death: Report A former Virginia Tech football player pleaded not guilty to killing a man, who he thought was a woman, after meeting in person through an online dating platform Tinder, according to various news reports. Isimemen David Etute, 19, was indicted on a murder charge in the death of Jerry Paul Smith, a 40-year-old Blacksburg restaurant project manager, on May 31, 2021. The two met online and connected in person when Etute when to Smith's apartment for an encounter that included oral sex in April 2021. However, Etute was unsure if Smith was a male or female. Etute then planned a second enco…

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by David Cifarelli