Shooting Victims Get Posthumous Degrees

Hundreds of students ran screaming from the lecture hall three months ago to escape a gunman who had opened fire inside at Dekalb, Illinois. On Saturday while much of the rest of the campus celebrated graduation, a somber Laurel Dubowski stood outside the building's glass doors. She said she was still very sad and devastated. Earlier Saturday, she had walked onto an auditorium stage to accept a posthumous degree for her daughter, Gayle Dubowski, one of five students killed in a geology class in the red bricked Cole Hall on February 14. Three of the five students shot dead received posthuous degrees on Saturday. Families of the other two said they would accept degrees later.