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Today's Collegian trumpets K-State's new security procedures at dorms in wake of the Virginia Tech shootings: requiring students to show ID and guests to check in. ...Wait, what?
Or, as first commenter Becky Christner nailed it: "Oh good, so we'll be safe unless someone with a student ID decides to bring a gun to class!"
I'm not sure which is worse: an ineffectual policy being touted as safety, or complicity in promoting such.
Edit: It's "Furnas" (second graf), not "Furnace" (third graf). Mrgh.
Or, as first commenter Becky Christner nailed it: "Oh good, so we'll be safe unless someone with a student ID decides to bring a gun to class!"
I'm not sure which is worse: an ineffectual policy being touted as safety, or complicity in promoting such.
Edit: It's "Furnas" (second graf), not "Furnace" (third graf). Mrgh.
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Yeah, I think every dorm in America has some variation of that policy. Does oodles and oodles of good when the person is a student, lives in the dorm, and is a legal adult.
Honest to pete, as I listen to this stuff I wonder if any of these people have ever been on a college campus. This isn't high school. The kinds of security measures people are throwing around for colleges and universities are simply not practical. I have visions of late college students flipping out during finals because they get stuck in line for the metal detector...
Hard as it is to accept, bad things happen. Sometimes catastrophic things happen. Sometimes there's not an answer.