The administration at Virginia Tech made a horrific mistake by not locking down the campus after the first two dorm shootings at 7:30am before the beginning of classes. If administrators had shut everything down and gotten students, faculty, and staff to safe places, it's probable that the mass killings in the engineering building would not have occurred.
Having said that, I don't believe that Virginia Tech President Charles Steger and his staff should be fired, become the target of a lot of vitriol, or get sued to within an inch of their lives.
Before today, there had been no mass attack on a college campus since Charles Whitman's assault on the University of Texas in the 1960's. With no road map on how to proceed, Virginia Tech administrators were operating in the dark with no training on how to move forward.
Campus administrators were disastrously wrong, but they were wrong in the way that most people would have erred. They assumed that their world was going to operate in its usual way.
As a result, they should be given a chance to learn from their mistakes.
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Given that you are such an expert on everything, including campus security, maybe you should email VT authorities and tell them what an enormous blunder you think they made?
Come down from the mountain, oh wise one, and enlighten us all!
How would you characterize the decision not to close down the campus after the first two shootings? Do you think they did the right thing?
Who cares what I think? More to the point, who cares what YOU think?
Don't you have some papers to grade?
Needless to say, I have a long list of shortcomings. But it's a comfort to know that you care.
I'm wondering why the sudden hostility.....
Good question.
Good question.
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