Snow Closes Colleges: Why Not Shootings?
Universities close down schools all the time. They do it on "snow days." The VA Tech Report is in and you should be upset. To say that a widespread message to the college community is difficult to broadcast, far and wide, is a mistruth. I find it incredible that there seems to be some kind of gray area in the current "school shootings prevention" debate about whether or not colleges have any control over the ebb and flow of information to their students, staff, and professors. The Virginia Tech report was released late on the evening of August 29, 2007, as the new college and university academic year begins anew across North America. "Warning the students, faculty and staff might have made a difference ... so the earlier and clearer the warning, the more chance an individual had of surviving," said the report. The eight-member panel, appointed by the Virginia governor, Timothy Kaine, said the Virginia Tech police "erred" in not issuing a campu