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I went to Virginia Tech for undergraduate and graduate school, so I'm pretty familiar with the layout of the school (in fact, I lived in the dorm where the first shooting took place). As others have pointed out, isolated shootings in general are not unusual, and even if the university had acted and shut down classes, where would the students have gone? Back to their dorms, where someone just got shot? The campus is huge, spread out over a large area with over 20,000 students. Even if university officials thought there was possible danger of another attack, what would they have done with all those people?
