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Byline: Chuck Goudie
No one should quarrel with the response by Northern Illinois University to that Valentine's Day classroom massacre.
Police, medical teams, students, teachers, administrators, counselors - all did the right things on Feb. 14 when a former graduate student became unglued in Cole Hall, shooting 21 students, five of them fatally, and then killed himself.
But in 2008, such a coordinated reaction is to be expected. Universities have response blueprints to follow, after the numerous other campus attacks ... and billions of dollars pumped into homeland security plans, personnel and equipment since 9/11.
Other than the normal "roundtable" discussions that authorities have after every major incident, the response to the tragedy at NIU doesn't need nearly as much attention as the university wants...
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