The official line on the Virginia Tech report is that the University should have alerted people earlier. But the fact is that some plain-old electronic rumor-mongering and unofficial rush-to-post twittering would have done the trick, too.
Report: V. Tech could have saved lives :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation
Had university officials not waited more than two hours to tell the campus about the initial shootings, lives could have been saved when Seung-Hui Cho later began his massacre inside a classroom building, according to the report, released Wednesday night.”Warning the students, faculty and staff might have made a difference,” the panel wrote. ”So the earlier and clearer the warning, the more chance an individual had of surviving.”