2008 Woodie Awards
'Threat' on campus handled well
Letter to the editor
Issue date: 10/30/07 Section: Opinion
This letter is regarding Maggie Willis' column in last Thursday's edition of the Alestle titled "Overreacting to 'threat' a problem."
When I was finished reading the column I was shocked and disgusted. Who are you to say that he was no threat to any of the student body?
Do you, Maggie, know what was going through his mind at the time? No, you do not. You even said that you did understand the situation.
I was happy that I got e-mails telling me someone quite possibly could have had a gun on campus. I would rather be too safe than end up like the people who died at Virginia Tech.
Maggie Willis should be ashamed of herself for thinking that, we, as a school, did not need to know about a possible threat on or around this campus. I think that the students and faculty at Virginia Tech would have wanted to know about the killer ahead of time if they had a choice. What about you? Maybe you should send this article to some of the family members of the students or faculty who died at Virginia Tech and see what they say, see what kind of response you get from them.
I hope that the school continues to be very cautious with their students' and faculty's lives. I hope that someone like you is not running a school and making the decision to not tell us about a possible threat. I would never want my life put in your hands, because according to you there was no threat.
You are disrespecting the people who died at Virginia Tech by not learning from that situation and trying to prevent it at another school.
Ashly Chitty
Education
Senior
When I was finished reading the column I was shocked and disgusted. Who are you to say that he was no threat to any of the student body?
Do you, Maggie, know what was going through his mind at the time? No, you do not. You even said that you did understand the situation.
I was happy that I got e-mails telling me someone quite possibly could have had a gun on campus. I would rather be too safe than end up like the people who died at Virginia Tech.
Maggie Willis should be ashamed of herself for thinking that, we, as a school, did not need to know about a possible threat on or around this campus. I think that the students and faculty at Virginia Tech would have wanted to know about the killer ahead of time if they had a choice. What about you? Maybe you should send this article to some of the family members of the students or faculty who died at Virginia Tech and see what they say, see what kind of response you get from them.
I hope that the school continues to be very cautious with their students' and faculty's lives. I hope that someone like you is not running a school and making the decision to not tell us about a possible threat. I would never want my life put in your hands, because according to you there was no threat.
You are disrespecting the people who died at Virginia Tech by not learning from that situation and trying to prevent it at another school.
Ashly Chitty
Education
Senior
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