Virginia Tech | Open Records Project

Following the murder of 32 students and faculty, a group of us including several Georgia Tech alums decided to do <a href=http://72.29.109.20/>something</a> for the students and faculty of Virginia Tech.

We raised money to send a Texas school <a href=http://roseminars.com/>security training team</a> to Blacksburg to expose students and faculty to security options other than <a href=http://flickr.com/photos/nika7k/461907589/>”duck and cover”</a> under a desk.

There were some <a href=http://blogs.openrecords.org/2007/04/30/top-10-objections-to-the-safety-seminar/>objections</a> to our project. My favorite objector was a woman claiming to be from the College of Women’s Studies.

She argued that by training students to survive a future attack, we would only be sentencing them to a lifetime of guilt over the deaths of their dead classmates. Death is apparently preferable to guilt in her world.

Even our friend Jim Shutze took a <a href=http://blogs.openrecords.org/2007/04/30/americans-are-not-going-to-die-on-their-knees-anymore/>pot shot</a>.
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There were several open records issues related to the murders <a href=http://blogs.openrecords.org/2007/04/19/privacy-can-be-deadly/>here</a> and <a href=http://blogs.openrecords.org/2007/04/18/school-kept-shooters-problems-secret/>here</a>.

The Georgia Tech blog did a pretty good wrapup <a href= http://gtmoonbats.org/blog/?p=49>here</a>. This quote from the mother of a female engineering student who attended the safety seminar said it best,

<em>”Just as we Americans have learned that sitting passively for plane hijackers no longer works, we need to also learn to feel more empowered against this kind of violence.</em> ”
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