In a no-nonsense commentary at Counter Punch on the failure to stop the Va Tech slayer before he carried out the massacre, Lila Rajiva comes down hard on campus administrators and campus police in general. Excerpts:

…campus police at universities are notorious for covering up or minimizing these sorts of incidents. Why? Because campus crime statistics are bad for enrollment and they reflect poorly on campus police…
University administrations are big, hamstrung departments that spend most of their energy on bureaucratic nonsense and covering their behinds.

Unfortunately there is truth in Rajiva’s blunt truth-saying: On campuses “what we need are fewer idiots.”