Back-to-School Bomb Threats
Bomb threats are apparently all the rage as the nation's colleges and universities start a new academic year, ABC News reports: At least 13 U.S. universities, including Princeton, MIT and Carnegie Mellon, have been targeted for anonymous e-mail bomb threats as students return to classes, federal law enforcement authorities tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. One of the schools, Clemson University, in Clemson, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 4, 2007 15:32
Virginia Tech Shootings Panel Seeks Reforms
Forbes' headline, "Va. Tech Shootings Panel Seeks Reforms to an AP report jumped out at me. Not because I much cared about the recommendations that the panel issued to ward off a more-or-less unpreventable, one-off tragedy but because of the sheer foregone conclusion that it represents. Has ever a panel been assembled to investigate anything that didn't recommend reforms? ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 23, 2007 15:01
Teachers Stage Fake Attack on 6th Graders
The news that broke over the weekend that teachers from Murphreesboro, Tennessee's Scales Elementary School "staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables" in order to impart lessons about what to do in the event of a Virginia Tech-style rampage has bloggers ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 14, 2007 16:09
Neal Boortz May Be Pulled from Virginia Radio Station
David Grant reports for the Collegiate Times that nationally syndicated talk show host Neal Boortz' show may be pulled from Pulaski, Virginia's WFNR AM for some controversial remarks he made in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. Boortz echoed a theme expressed by many that the victims were “standing in terror waiting for (their) turn to be executed.” ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 3, 2007 09:12
Professor Fired Over Va. Tech Discussion/Demonstration
Cross-posted from PoliBlog: The AP reports: Professor fired over Va. Tech discussion An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow." The five-minute demonstration at Emmanuel College on Wednesday, two days after a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 23, 2007 22:09
Virginia Tech and What the Blogosphere is Doing
There is a move afoot in the blogosphere that declares April 30th a One Day of Silence. The move, as much as it is linkbait (the badges they give you link back to the One Day site), is a move that is not without controversy. It is a call for the blogosphere to remember the victims of the Virginia Tech ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 20, 2007 16:27
Should NBC Have Aired the Va Tech Killer’s Video?
Hugh Hewitt strenuously objects to NBC's decision to air the video made by Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hi, implying in his title that it may have been "The Single Worst Editorial Decision In The History Of Broadcast News." Soon after the press conference at which it was disclosed that NBC had received a package of print, photos and video materials ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 19, 2007 10:57
More Asininity (This Time from Malkin)
While James travels, I agreed to do some posting at OTB. The following is cross-posted from PoliBlog: Writes Michelle Malkin at RCP: Wanted: A Culture of Self-DefenseThere's no polite way or time to say it: American colleges and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments and designated "safe spaces" ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 18, 2007 22:38
Virginia Tech Gunman Sent Material to NBC
Cho Seung-Hi, the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacres, sent a press packet to NBC in between shooting sprees. The Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package of photographs, video and writings to NBC News in New York before he killed himself in the massacre that left 33 people dead, authorities said Wednesday. NBC said that a time stamp on the package ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 18, 2007 17:19
PSA: School Shootings Are Very Rare Events
I just thought that after reading this story, the above needed to be said. Another Scare Rattles Va. Tech Campus BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history got another scare Wednesday morning as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which houses the president's office. The threat of suspicious ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 18, 2007 16:36
