Jon ([info]jsuen) wrote,
@ 2007-06-13 13:59:00
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Crappy schools
Having gone to a school with a shooting (by an Asian kid, they interviewed him in Newsweek. pretty content free.) I can tell you that it isn't the immediate response, but the campus's long term response that determines whether it will recover from it and grow stronger and so forth (where you can still receive adult signature required packages* when you're 16), or your school is permanently wounded.

It's already begun.

There was another article on how the building where the shootings were still remains closed, and nobody can get any research done, and no grants, and delayed degrees, and so forth.

I seem to remember a meeting where they taught us this concept. (This was 7 years ago, maybe it was a lecture in orientation instead.) You make immediate changes, but you can't let it affect the openness of the community. That is, hurry up and get over it.

This was the thing I was thinking when all the support VT stuff was going on. Will you support them putting cameras in everybody's dorm room? It's still too early to tell, but I don't think that they're doing this right at all.

* Well, the UPS guy has the front desk lady sign all of them at once, so it probably wasn't separated or pointed out, but still.



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