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To: steve harris who wrote (334637)	4/22/2007 11:19:07 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574050

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?

To: steve harris who wrote (334637)	4/22/2007 11:23:30 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574050

Teachers couldn't lock their doors. Some students had to use desks to hide behind or barricade the door. What's up with that? It sounds fairly normal for individual teachers in a University to not have keys to the various classrooms. In general, the building may be locked at night, but the classroom doors would always be open. I don't know the specifics of the day involved. I'm surprised that if students somehow learned their was a shooter in the building that they stayed in their rooms and barricaded the doors rather than run out into the hall and try to escape. The story sounds so unpleasant that I've generally chosen not to read the news stories about it.