My students make the news

Warning: This is not at all Tommy related and this was just a drill!

Read this article and see the pic of my students participating in the Violence on Campus drill yesterday. We were the screaming, injured (and yes, occaisionally giggling) masses. Thanks Chron for pointing out that teenagers might act like teenagers in a situation like this. Oh well, reality check for my acting students... there will always be bad reviews of every performance!

All in all the exercise was intense and impressive. Things did not go smoothly at many times, which was exactly what needed to happen so we all could improve our plans. Shout out to Rich Jones '93 for his brilliant portrayal of the intruder. It was quite a trip chit chatting with him in the hallway before we began... "You married?" "Got kids?" ... "Ok check ya later, going to go take a class hostage now!" "See ya!"

In all seriousness I'm totally in awe of the people who were doing their jobs yesterday. I can't imagine what it's like to run into a situation like that and do what they do. Thanks to all the agencies who participated yesterday. They're incredible.