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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.

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  • Monday, April 16, 2007 09:07 PM

    who could've thunk....

    alright now, it's not like we are talking about the butterfly effect here -- someone gets shot in a campus dorm and six month later there's a mansoon in India. No! There's a social fabric on campus with a much higher degree of inteconnectedness than in, say, some town of 26000 people; and a lot less entropy. That is to say that everyone congreates in a few buildings and classrooms. So, we have an unexplained shooting with the gunman or gunmen still on the loose and this is business as usual?...geez, what bad things can possibly happen here? Of course, according to el presidente Arbusto, no one anticipated the levies breaching in New Orleans either.

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