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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
I've worked on two different college campuses since 9/11. On both campuses, we were REQUIRED by Homeland Security to have security measures planned and documented for inspection. When I hear the VaTech president talk about how they had a meeting to determine HOW they were going to notify students, I just scream! That stuff has ALREADY BEEN decided and you're supposed to automatically throw into motion the procedures.
Believe me, school campuses all over the country have spent the past 5 years tuning and fine-tuning emergency procedures, so their official non-reaction to the first incident just seems totally ridiculous to me.
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Until you mentioned this, it never occurred to me. Now that you have, I can't believe it! It's so blindingly obvious that there would be these procedures in place, if for no other reason than to deal with another 9/11-type situation. There should have been a big manual with a list of responsibilities and a chain of command.
I don't necessarily believe that the school dropped the ball in not cancelling classes and locking down campus after the dorm shooting because no one could have anticipated what was going to come next, but if the above is true, they did drop it on getting the news out and communicating with everyone.