{"id":853,"date":"2007-04-17T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2007-04-17T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T21:20:00","slug":"vulnerability-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a college professor with an office across campus from the sheriff’s substation that is supposed to protect us, I have been thinking about the Virginia Tech shootings<\/a>. (Not the worst in US history<\/a>, by the way.)<\/p>\n

Mostly I have been thinking of Professor Librescu, who acted like a grown-up<\/a>. Maybe it’s the Israeli connection: many Israelis whom I have met are take-charge people who know that you don’t wait for help to arrive–you do it yourself. Perhaps after what he had lived through, he knew evil coming when he saw it. <\/p>\n

This Virginia Tech student, meanwhile, speaks for anyone who who has outgrown their nanny<\/a>:<\/p>\n

First, I never want to have my safety fully in the hands of anyone else, including the police.<\/em><\/p>\n

Forensic psychologist Helen Smith (correction: Reynolds is her married name) has some thoughts on why “the experts” always want you to give up<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Have you noticed that most of the tips you get in recent years for how to survive a violent crime involve an accompanying psychological maneuver of first trying to make you feel impotent?<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor Librescu obviously did not lean that way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I never had to protect my students from a mad gunman. (But today I put a Band-aid on a student’s finger.) But I run the scenarios in my head, and I have been doing that since 1999<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a college professor with an office across campus from the sheriff’s substation that is supposed to protect us, I have been thinking about the Virginia Tech shootings. (Not the worst in US history, by the way.) Mostly I have been thinking of Professor Librescu, who acted like a grown-up. Maybe it’s the Israeli connection: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-dL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1034,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1034","url_meta":{"origin":853,"position":0},"title":"On the Road in Virginia: Monticello","author":"Chas S. 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