Governor Kaine leaves decision on Steger to Virginia Tech Board of Visitors

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today reiterated his willingness to correct the inaccuracies in the record of the April 16, 2007, shootings at Virginia Tech University compiled by a state panel.

But the governor was less committal on whether Tech president Charles W. Steger should be replaced, as the family members of some Tech victims have suggested.

“That is a matter for the board to decide,“ said Kaine, speaking on his monthly call in radio show on WTOP in Northern Virginia. “President Steger has done a very, very good job over a career of being an administrator, dean and then president of that university.

“The family members believe that with respect to some things that happened on April 16th and some things since, that he hasn’t been responsive to them in a way that he should,“ Kaine said. “But that doesn’t take away from the fact that the university has done tremendously well under his leadership, so you have to balance all those things out.“