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I half expected to be the only one commenting that it is probably a bit unfair to start blaming the university's actions. Kudos (although I am not surprised) to my fellow Salon readers for being, REASONABLE.
Of course universities are not prepared for this sort of thing. If they had locked down the university, and it had turned out to be an isolated domestic issue, I'm sure Salon would have written a criticism quoting students complaining about how school officials overreacted like fascist overlords. And you know what, I would have agreed. University administrations are not security experts, they're educators. They took the advice of local authorities, which from what I can gather, would have been right 99% of the time.
My thoughts go out to the people in the VA Tech community.
