The Death of Imagination

I don't think the point about canceling classes is at all fair. Nearly all murders are just that -- a killing of a specific, almost always singular, target, not a rampage. If someone were killed in the building next door, I hardly expect that my office would close (and Virginia Tech covers some 2000 acres -- that's like saying Millennium Park should be evacuated if there were a shooting in the Sears Tower). There might be some cordoning off if the police were in hot pursuit, but that did not appear to be the case here. After the first shooting was reported, there was no special reason to believe that there was additional danger.