I have been shocked and deeply saddened by the shooting which occurred Monday morning at Virginia Tech University. The number of student's slain has now reached 32, an unprecedented number in American school shooting history. I could only imagine what grief and anger I would feel if 32 UCI students were shot and murdered on my campus, students at Virginia are living it.
The shooter has been identified as Cho-Seung Hui, a South Korean resident alien. It has been established that Cho-Seung Hui first killed a female student and an RA in the dorms, then a few hours later proceeded to campus classrooms to kill again. My biggest question is how come students weren’t informed about the dorm shootings earlier and why classes were not cancelled after the first shooting?
In my opinion, the actions taken by both the school administration and local authorities were slow and lackluster. I have read reports that students began to read about the morning dorm shootings in emails hours after the event, right about the time Cho-Seung Hui began killing again. I believe it is the school responsibility to inform students immediately that someone had been shot on campus, especially if the gunman’s whereabouts is unknown. Secondly, classes should have been cancelled. Many state that students were actually safer in classrooms; my only response is that the majority of the students murdered were chained and shot inside classrooms and on campus.
I offer my condolences to the families and friends who have been directly affected by this tragedy.
Here is a link to a website dedicated to this day
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/virginiatech.shootings/
-Arthur
The shooter has been identified as Cho-Seung Hui, a South Korean resident alien. It has been established that Cho-Seung Hui first killed a female student and an RA in the dorms, then a few hours later proceeded to campus classrooms to kill again. My biggest question is how come students weren’t informed about the dorm shootings earlier and why classes were not cancelled after the first shooting?
In my opinion, the actions taken by both the school administration and local authorities were slow and lackluster. I have read reports that students began to read about the morning dorm shootings in emails hours after the event, right about the time Cho-Seung Hui began killing again. I believe it is the school responsibility to inform students immediately that someone had been shot on campus, especially if the gunman’s whereabouts is unknown. Secondly, classes should have been cancelled. Many state that students were actually safer in classrooms; my only response is that the majority of the students murdered were chained and shot inside classrooms and on campus.
I offer my condolences to the families and friends who have been directly affected by this tragedy.
Here is a link to a website dedicated to this day
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/virginiatech.shootings/
-Arthur
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