The NY Times says the school has 25,000 full-time students on a campus spread over 2,600 acres.
So locking down the University would be like locking down a town. It's easy for me to forget the scale when talking about a 'school'.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Apr 16, 2007 12:04:01 pm PDT #2867 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
bon bon - Apr 16, 2007 12:14:48 pm PDT #2868 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I read the interview of one of the students in the Washington Post-- apparently they do have a crisis communication system.
Lansing, Mich.: How did news about the lockdown spread? Did most people hear it or read it through e-mail? Do you know if VT had a plan in place for this kind of situation?
Anthony Della Calce: Yes, VT has an extensive crisis communication plan, which they used in the Morva incident this past August. They communicate primarily through e-mail and postings to the Tech Web sites. They also have a voicemail emergency system for the dorm phones.
Sheryl - Apr 16, 2007 12:22:31 pm PDT #2869 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday ND and CV!
My folks were driving back to CT today. I hope the weather hasn't caused them any major problems.
Theodosia - Apr 16, 2007 12:52:47 pm PDT #2870 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Actually, it's been surprisingly rain-light and wind-light here today. I hear up North is still getting hammered, though.
sarameg - Apr 16, 2007 12:56:52 pm PDT #2871 of 10001
Windy as hell here. Gusts close to 50 at various points today.
Good grief. Mister Kitty got shut in the closet this morning apparently. I don't discover this until I've frantically searched the apartment, expecting the worst (both cats usually greet me, demanding a treat.) Dumbass cat. (They aren't allowed in the closet. I have no idea when he snuck in.)
sumi - Apr 16, 2007 1:02:51 pm PDT #2872 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
The president at our university (nowhere near VA) just issued a statement about the shooting at Virginia Tech!
beth b - Apr 16, 2007 1:44:50 pm PDT #2873 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
not sure that even my tiny campus could have been effectively locked down - but I think spreading the word could have been done fairly fast - and this was pre-email. Proof that a multi-channel attempt to notify people should protect the campus some.
Daisy Jane - Apr 16, 2007 1:49:33 pm PDT #2874 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I had jokes. I don't feel like it now. I heard about it on the radio a while ago and thought about our uniistas.
Burrell - Apr 16, 2007 2:14:57 pm PDT #2875 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yeah, but most of the ones I know don't have any boundary like that -- there's no gate to turn anyone away from, just building entrances.
Here the gates are really about parking entrances. There are also a few porous boundaries for those on foot.
JZ - Apr 16, 2007 2:52:15 pm PDT #2876 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Our boundaries are fairly non-porous, but we're not a normal uni: teaching hospital, serves the specialty needs of the city/county jail population, research facilities semiregularly picketed by animal rights activists, home to a Unabomber victim, located in an area with a high earthquake risk. Lots of emergency procedures, 24/7 surveillance cameras, automatic door-locking and corridor-sealing at the flip of a switch, etc. etc. etc.
Also, no on-campus student housing. And from what little I've seen of the off-campus student housing that's available, what little there is of it, security measures there are bare-bones to nil.