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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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May 2, 2007
Art Imitates Life, as Video Draws Armed Response at U. of Hawaii
Campus security guards, jumpy in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, mistook an actor in a performance-art video for a gunman at the University of Hawaii-Manoa last week, evacuated a classroom building, and even detained someone who looked like the actor, the Honolulu Star Bulletin reported on Tuesday.
Guards and police officers responded when someone obviously unfamiliar with the breadth of contemporary artwork passed by a closed gallery housing “Securrorism,” by Carl Lindstrom, a senior majoring in photography art. The piece features, among other things, a video that shows a man briefly waving a toy gun, and the passerby reported it as a gunman. The video was no match for the crack security team deployed against it.
In the wake of the artistic comedy of terrors, everyone put the best face on it. Mr. Lindstrom said he had received what every artist seeks: attention. Other art students seemed to get a good laugh. A university official said the rapid response showed that the campus guards and the local police were ready for anything. —Andrew Mytelka
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