ugh, Iowa!
03/24/2008 05:16 p.m.
I woke up at 8 this morning to a call from the Hawk Alert, the University of Iowa warning system, which informed me that there was an active shooter on campus. Um, terrifying. My roommate came and locked herself in my room and was on the phone calling all of her friends to make sure they were OK and I was just in an early morning daze of confusion, not unlike how I am when I usually first wake up.

We find out that classes have not been cancelled for the day and that we're still expected to show up. After some what the fuck?!ing on our parts, we learn that there was a shooting downtown by some 40 year old guy and that none of it is actually connected to the university and there is no actual threat to campus. It took them far too long to clear that up.

University of Iowa, you handled this like shit.

Now I'm all shaken up and pissed at whoever runs the Hawk Alert system. I walked home from class so horribly paranoid.

Apparently they found the van all burned up of the guy responsible for the shooting with a body inside, and so apparently it's all over.

But, yeah, still shaken and still pissed. It could have been handled so much better.

Edit: Apparently a guy killed his family in their home. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23778086/ Very sad, but not exactly warranting telling students there's a shooter on campus, since it doesn't seem to be affiliated with the university at all.
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