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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (334637)4/22/2007 11:19:07 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (3) of 1574121
 
How does the size of the school affect whether the teachers lock their doors?

It matters a lot. Shutting down your local elementary school is a lot different than shutting down Va Tech.

The first murder was in a dorm room, as I understand it. I'm thinking of UCBerkeley, where I went to school. There were about 15 dorms, and another 15 residence halls. The campus is something like 6 blocks by 8 blocks, with perhaps 100 buildings, maybe more. The dorm/residence halls were each two to four blocks off campus. If two people in one dorm were shot at 7am, shutting down the entire campus (and all the residence halls I suppose, and all the business establishments between the dorms and the campus, right?) seems like a serious overreaction.

On the other hand, if you are talking 400 students in 15 classrooms in an elementary school, it's not as large a deal to shut it down.

Are you saying each time there is a rape/gunshot murder/strangling/whatever serious crime in one of the Berkeley housing facilities, the entire campus and surrounding neighboorhood should go into police-state mode? It's a serious endeavor when there are that many people (30k+) and buildings involved (100+), and there is not even a threat note to indicate the murder is not an isolated incident.

And.....when do you reopen? What if the guy is not caught within 24 hours?
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