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Professors: 'What Would I Do?'

April 20, 2007 RSS Feed Print

Cardinal Points, the newspaper of Plattsburgh State University College, has an interesting article examining how professors on their campus think they would have responded in the face of the violence that occurred in classrooms at Virginia Tech. "The entire situation was too horrible for [Professor Jeff Hornibrook] to think about without feeling ill. Yet it was the stories of the professors who died at the hands of a suicidal gunman, the people who were standing at the front of the classrooms like human bull's-eyes when the shooter stormed through the doors, whose faces have haunted Hornibrook the most," the paper reports."I can't tell you how I would react if a shooter was outside my classroom door," Hornibrook concludes. "I hope I never find out." --K.T.

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