Virginia Tech
Following the murder of 32 students and faculty, a group of us including several Georgia Tech alums decided to do something for the students and faculty of Virginia Tech.
We raised money to send a Texas school security training team to Blacksburg to expose students and faculty to security options other than “duck and cover” under a desk.
There were some objections to our project. My favorite objector was a woman claiming to be from the College of Women’s Studies.
She argued that by training students to survive a future attack, we would only be sentencing them to a lifetime of guilt over the deaths of their dead classmates. Death is apparently preferable to guilt in her world.
Even our friend Jim Shutze took a pot shot.
There were several open records issues related to the murders here and here.
The Georgia Tech blog did a pretty good wrapup here. This quote from the mother of a female engineering student who attended the safety seminar said it best,
“Just as we Americans have learned that sitting passively for plane hijackers no longer works, we need to also learn to feel more empowered against this kind of violence. “
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