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Monday, April 16, 2007 12:00 AM

University officials waited two hours to warn campus, students say

With at least 33 dead and 29 wounded, some ask why the campus wasn't shut down after an early-morning killing.
By Joe Eaton

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  • Monday, April 16, 2007 04:11 PM

    Shootings aren't "unusual"?

    "Isolated shootings in general are not unusual." Well, since when? I'd love for someone to pull the numbers on that.

    I understand that you don't want to alarm people unnecessarily. And perhaps once we have more facts, we'll find that the university really did all it could to prevent this.

    However, it's a poor argument to make that a single shooting in a dormitory is an event common enough to not warrant some kind of campus-wide action beyond sending out a mass e-mail. This doesn't happen every day at Va. Tech -- or even every year, as just a cursory look at the stats reveals.

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