How fucking dumb is this?
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Elizabeth City State University is offering counseling to faculty and students after some became unknowing participants in an emergency response drill.The News & Observer of Raleigh reported in Wednesday's editions that an armed man burst into a classroom Friday, threatening to kill students. The drill came eight days after a gunman killed five people and himself in a classroom at Northern Illinois University.
Anthony Brown, vice chancellor of student affairs, said ECSU was testing its response to such shootings. E-mail and text messages were sent five days before the drill, notifying students, staff and faculty, he said.
"The intent was not to frighten them but to test our system and also to test the response of the security that was on campus and the people that were notified," Brown said.
But not everyone got the word, including assistant professor Jingbin Wang, whose American foreign policy class was held hostage.
"I was prepared to die at that moment," Wang said Tuesday of the moment the gunman entered the room.
WTF can these people possibly be thinking? That university had better be prepared to settle some nasty little lawsuits.
The only way to solve this problem is to stop being assholes about people carrying on campus. No SWAT team is going to prevent one of these incidents after it starts. (They haven't yet, at any rate.)
