That seems to be the attitude of more than one Virginia university that fails to notify its students about threats to their safety.
That's the address of a Washington Post article from 2014, about the $32,500 fine that Virginia Tech paid in 2014, seven years after its failure to warn students of a double, shooting homicide until 2 hours after it happened and 15 minutes before another 30 people were mudered. If you were a student at Virginia Tech that day, and you happened to check your email at 9:26 a.m., you might have gotten the school's message.
The Washington Post article also mentions fines of $220,500 paid by Oregon State University, although it doesn't say whether or not even one person was murdered there.
There seems to be a direct correlation among the factors of how far a school is from Washington D.C., how many powerful people don't enroll their children at that school, how much money the school doesn't already have, how many wealthy and powerful alumni the school doesn't have, and how much more money the federal Education Department can make the school pay for failing to protect its students.
The Virginia Tech warning to students didn't happen for two hours after the first set of homicides because the homicides were thought to be a product of domestic violence and therefore not a threat to anyone else, even through they didn't know where the shooter was. Just another squabble gone wrong; is that what the administration was thinking?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 18, 2016 @ 11:23 p.m./additions March 19, 2016 @ 12:03 a.m.
