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To: Elroy who wrote (334640)	4/22/2007 11:56:23 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574078

"In general, the building may be locked at night, but the classroom doors would always be open." Not here. All the buildings I know about have one or more doors which are never locked. Grad students, for example, work all kinds of hours. Inside the buildings, the only doors which typically have locks are the various offices. Classroom doors typically don't even have locks. It would be a nightmare to try to distribute keys to the various instructors for their various classroom and track them. And to what use? To guard against something with an essentially zero probability?

To: Elroy who wrote (334640)	4/22/2007 12:06:09 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574078

What has been thrown together that happened that day. en.wikipedia.org A campus of 25000 students, 2600 acres, and over 100 buildings. A police force of 38. I'd say more guns is a start. Not less.

To: Elroy who wrote (334640)	4/22/2007 3:36:58 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574078

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. The shootings were on the 3rd floor.....students on the fourth floor were afraid to go down so they barricaded their doors. In addition, the gunman had used chains to secure the doors leading into and out of the buildings. I believe he had locks on those chains. Consequently some students jumped out of windows. In Seattle, each teacher is supposed to lock his/her door once class begins as a precaution.