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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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April 24, 2007
Threats Shut Down Colleges in Mississippi and Washington
Two more colleges had to close today as a result of the continuing wave of bomb scares and other copycat threats that have hit American higher education since last week’s shooting rampage at Virginia Tech.
Delta State University closed its campus this afternoon after receiving several bomb threats that, one official said, could not be ignored in the wake of the Virginia Tech killings. According to The Clarion-Ledger, a newspaper in Jackson, Miss., it was unclear if the university, located in the northwestern part of the state, would reopen on Wednesday. No bombs have yet been found.
Yakima Valley Community College, in Washington, closed today after receiving undisclosed “threats of harm to people on campus,” according to a local police officer quoted in the Yakima Herald-Republic.
“After Virginia Tech, you don’t want to be the one to under-react,” the officer, Capt. Greg Copeland, told the newspaper. “You would be crucified if something were to happen.” —Andrew Mytelka
Posted on Tuesday April 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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