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Within hours of the Virginia Tech tragedy, some parents were wanting to bring their kids home. People began discussing how safe university campuses are in general. Professors, students and parents involved with any campus in the land are watching and asking questions.

However, when I hear university officials talking about reviewing and assessing their preparedness for this type of episode, I am a bit uncomfortable. Comments from some send a message that campus security is handled in a reactionary manner. Most would agree that campus security is important enough that officials should have their best plan in place now - before the tragedy (I am not saying that Virginia Tech's preparedness was lacking.) On the other hand, it is appropriate for campus security and university officials to carefully consider the details of this tragedy and determine how they would respond on their own turf and discuss how effective their response would be.

The public wants to hear that this can only happen once at Virginia Tech and certainly not on any other campus. The public wants to hear that their friends and family are totally safe on campus. The challenge for university spokesperson's right now is to be brutally honest - that may not be politically correct. They cannot guarantee everyone's safety so they better not promise it. A university campus, just like a workplace or any other public place, cannot be made perfectly safe. Security will do the best they can and hopefully be able to intervene in most cases. They will not be 100% successful.

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