Originally Posted By: Sicilian Babe
Olivant, What is so ridiculous about gates? When I went to college (over 20 years ago), it was a suburban campus with a high number of commuter students. There were gates at each entrance with a security booth. Why is it so ridiculous to close the gates, not to prevent anyone from exiting, but to prevent more people from entering? And while I agreed that it would probably be close to impossible to lockdown a campus of that size, why was there no EFFORT made to do so? The students who lived in the dorm where the first shooting took place were not even informed that a crime had occurred. Why not?

As Goombah said, there is so much effort to minimize crime on campuses that many schools will do all they can to prevent the news from leaking out. God forbid they frighten off future and/or current students!

And if there is a rapist in a dorm, why not at least lock down that dorm? This was a fresh crime scene, and yet students were allowed to come and go. Why were they not even interviewed as potential witnesses? If they thought this was an isolated incident, they why was no effort made to search the dorm to see if the shooter was hiding in a closet?



What gates are you talking about? What campuses? Was that college you went to surrounded by a fence or walls with a moat? What kind of college would that be? For how long do you close a campus. That's what noone has addressed. A week? A year? How about forever?

Fatherson has it right. Two hours? How do you know it was going to be two hours? How about 2 minutes? What about 2 days? Okay, no more shooting. Open up the campus. Oh my God, there was another shooting. I thought shootings only took place 2 hours apart.

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