Vice President Rosengarten pointed out that the main problem at Virginia Tech was the lack of information being shared between the different departments in the college, and, unfortunately, that the shooter had been provided with time to commit his horrific crime.Good grief.
I don't suppose you could point it out to Rosengarten that "the main problem" was that a killer had free rein to carry out his carnage and nobody could do a damn thing about it. And really, isn't admitting "the shooter had been provided with time" just another way of saying "Nobody possessed the ability to stop him"?
The Yeshiva University final solution?
Let's see...their real estate director "is devoting time to devising a brochure..."
The dean of students is developing "a concomitant website sourcebook."
And:
Moreover, YU is on the cusp of launching a new technological system called AlterFind [sic] which will contact every individual in the community automatically, notifying them during emergencies and instructing them how to respond. The system would contact individuals through text-messaging, email, and voicemail. "It is a nimble system that can respond in different kinds of ways," commented Dean Schwartz.
As I said, good grief. I don't suppose the one and only thing that actually would work has occurred to any of these egghheads?
Nope, didn't think so:
Did you ever get the feeling that for some, when they say "Never again" there should be a "Please" appended to it? They are fools who have learned nothing from history, and worse, demand those who do not share their cowardice to render themselves just as contemptible.
I'll reserve my respect and support for those who declare "Or else!" and mean it.
[Via cycjec]
I read sometime in the last week or so a piece about campus notification systems, and it pointed out the abysmal participation rate. I seem to recall it was down around 30% or less. Not going to be much help when they need it.
ReplyDeleteIf they have to voluntarily "participate" in an emergency notification system, then it's never going to work, because no one has a choice about participating in an emergency.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, the students at VT did not die because they didn't have guns. They died because most people in our society don't have the will to fight for their lives any more.
ReplyDeleteThe classrooms in Norris Hall aren't terribly large. So any person with a knife could have dealt with Cho quite easily. At worst, they would have died with him.
I think Breda put it best in her blog when she pointed out that a mouse cornered in her garage put up more fight than most people will now.
Since people aren't willing to fight anymore, maybe we should double-down on the gun-free solution....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beUQBXI22CA
Ah, the progrom continues. Pretty soon, all us "undesirables" will be gone. Who will they kill then — each other?
ReplyDeleteI recently graduated law school, and they tried to get us to "register" for their program. They would automatically send "emergency emails" but, honestly, no one checked the school email account anyway.
ReplyDeleteThen they tried to get us to register our phone numbers so they could text our phones. Lemme ask you this. If you are in class, and your phone is either 1) off or 2) on silent, how are you going to know you have a text message?
I have no use of being notified. If only the school would let me protect myself......