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• Wednesday, April 18, 2007 02:29 PM

  I love how you people think I'm the only one who thinks this

  I know you would love to believe that I'm the only person in the entire world who thinks admin was at fault, but: please read the articles and talk to people who were on campus, like I have. Then spout off your nonsense about how no one deserves to know until 9:30 that people were killed on campus at 7:15. Forgive me if I believe the people who were there rather than you.

  The Salon article is right, and it's not the press who are saying the administration was slow and security lax: it's parents, it's VT kids, it's people who aren't sitting at their computers, like you are, deciding that kids deserve to wait two hours to know a)there was a murder and b)there's a murderer loose among them. Several students were interviewed saying that they didn't realize there was a murder on campus.

  And the people who were dense on Aug. 21 are the ones who didn't realize the campus was closed, evacuated and classes locked by 9 am. If anyone was in doubt there was a crisis at that point -- as one commenter claimed -- they're too stupid to live.

  Also, KStone, please cut it out with the personal, snotty comments, like "glad you weren't in charge" or "I guess you dropped your previous "not taking domestic violence seriously" angle, eh? "

  If you were able to follow a single argument past your own inane prejudices, you would see that it's still the same argument. I guess if you don't actually see the literal words "domestic dispute" you think it's not the same point. Throughout, I've been saying that campus security treated these two murders differently and kept them quiet because they thought it was a domestic dispute. They said that themselves. That assumption was wrong, they had no proof of a domestic dispute and IN ADDITION, even if they thought it was a domestic dispute, they should have acted on the only, actual thing they knew, which was: two people dead, murderer on the loose.

  Please, convince me some more that people shouldn't be told of murderers on campus. Because if you convince me, since I'm the only person who thinks security acted wrongly and inefficiently, you win the Internet!

  —bibinewyork Read bibinewyork's other letters
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