In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Dunce honoris causā
By Janet Evans
Friday, Feb 29 2008, 06:25 AM
Picture returning to work from lunch, sitting in your office, not having had a chance to look at your email yet...
All of a sudden, a gunman bursts into the building, lines up all the employees against the wall and threatens to kill the employee who makes the highest wage.
Imagine how you would feel to later find out that it was all a "test" to see how you would handle the situation.
And, by the way, you were warned about it in an email....but, too bad if you didn't receive it before the experiment.
It just so happens, your office is on a second floor, and co-workers were thinking of jumping out of the windows.
Others are so distraught they now need psychological counseling.
The "fake gunman" could have been killed in the process.
Who knows if authorities might have shown up with real weapons.
Well, something like this did happened last Friday, in North Carolina.
What makes it worse is that it wasn't an office building.
It was a college campus; Elizabeth City State University.
And it happened just eight days after five killings by a gunman at Northern Illinois University.
"Anthony Brown, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the university was testing its response to shootings of the sort that have shaken campuses around the country. "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."
"I was prepared to die at that moment," Wang, [a political science teacher] said Tuesday."
The mock gunman broke into Wang's class.
Brown gets the honorary degree of DUNCE.
Read the article in the The News & Observer
Mock Gunman Terrifies Students ç here
