By Andrew L. Jaffee

What’s more important to Virginia Tech’s administration, public relations or the safety of students? Why didn’t the school heed warnings about the shooter going as far back as 2005? Why didn’t the administration lock down the campus after the first shooting? From the BBC:

A professor who taught a student whose gun rampage at Virginia Tech left 32 people dead says she warned university officials about his behaviour. …

Some students have complained that they received no warning from the university until an e-mail more than two hours after the first incident.

They also said that the university should have locked down the campus immediately after the shooting at the dormitory.

But university officials defended their handling of the incidents, saying they acted on the information that they had at the time. …

Even a single shooting — the first one, considered “domestic” in nature — should’ve prompted Virginia Tech to protect all students. And why the administration ignored the warnings about the shooter… G#d only knows…

Full Virginia Tech/Cho Seung-Hui Coverage:

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• Virginia Tech and Adolescence
• Lessons from Virginia Tech: We Had Better Learn Them
• Ideas for Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui
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• Hollywood hasn’t raised concerns?

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