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Athena · Apr 18, 2007, 11:32 am

I am surprised they did not immediately close the campus, the dorms, and secure the area around the college as well. That is what we do when the police are looking for someone near a school in my little area if the world.

I figure when someone does a seriously major anti-social deed, that someone isn't right in the head, and I feel compansion for this person. When someone like this is walking around, it is prudent to secure the area and look for that someone.

Almost ignoring the murders in the dorms, is a bad sign. When there were less people in our communities, they felt more of a sense of community. When someone died everyone draped their front door in black. Today it is life as usual as though nothing happened:eek: There was a lot of talk about the campus sense of community, but I think they better take another look at that. Why did they continue as though nothing happened? How many people have to die before the community responds to the fact that someone has died?

Same goes with ignoring the troubled young man, before he completely lost it. Where was the sense of community considering one writing professor knew him and the rest didn't? When someone is like a bomb ready to explode, maybe everyone should know about it? (this is also an issue I have with volconvo, and a handful of moderates policing us, instead of us sharing values and acting together to maintain social values) When people can exist in our midst and be unknown, something is wrong. A whole campus ignored a distrubed young man, as did the people in the neighborhood where he was raised. Social isolation leads to trouble and nieghbors didn't even know the family. We have major social break down and we are ignoring our reality. We are self absorbed, not community minded. I would say the nice talk about the community of the university is coming from self absorbed people who don't know what community is, but enjoy their comfortable positions while being mindless of those on the outside. The unity does not exist, so individuals go off like random protons.

Apr 18, 2007, 11:32 am	#7 (permalink) (top)
Athena Volcanic Erupter Location: Oregon Posts: 5,172	I am surprised they did not immediately close the campus, the dorms, and secure the area around the college as well. That is what we do when the police are looking for someone near a school in my little area if the world. I figure when someone does a seriously major anti-social deed, that someone isn't right in the head, and I feel compansion for this person. When someone like this is walking around, it is prudent to secure the area and look for that someone. Almost ignoring the murders in the dorms, is a bad sign. When there were less people in our communities, they felt more of a sense of community. When someone died everyone draped their front door in black. Today it is life as usual as though nothing happened:eek: There was a lot of talk about the campus sense of community, but I think they better take another look at that. Why did they continue as though nothing happened? How many people have to die before the community responds to the fact that someone has died? Same goes with ignoring the troubled young man, before he completely lost it. Where was the sense of community considering one writing professor knew him and the rest didn't? When someone is like a bomb ready to explode, maybe everyone should know about it? (this is also an issue I have with volconvo, and a handful of moderates policing us, instead of us sharing values and acting together to maintain social values) When people can exist in our midst and be unknown, something is wrong. A whole campus ignored a distrubed young man, as did the people in the neighborhood where he was raised. Social isolation leads to trouble and nieghbors didn't even know the family. We have major social break down and we are ignoring our reality. We are self absorbed, not community minded. I would say the nice talk about the community of the university is coming from self absorbed people who don't know what community is, but enjoy their comfortable positions while being mindless of those on the outside. The unity does not exist, so individuals go off like random protons.