Let us, for a moment, assume that there's 1/100,000 chance per year of you being murdered by some random nutjob on campus. (The odds are actually much lower than that in fact.)
Now, how many minutes a day are you willing to sacrifice "improving security"? Would you spend 2 minutes to detour through a single door with a guard (and have them close the other entrances)? Would you spend 10 minutes a day waiting to go through a metal detector? What about 20 minutes with everyone getting a strip search and having to wear lab gear?
We have the same problems with the absurd over-reactions to airplane security. Adding reinforced, locked cockpit doors did some good. Making me throw away my 8 oz water bottle-- not so much.
You have to do a cost/benefit analysis for all of these changes. (And unfortunately, the "benefit" is all for the TSA and the school administration on the off chance they prevent a problem, and the "cost" is all borne by the travelers and the students in inconvenience.)
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Date: 2007-08-24 03:52 am (UTC)Now, how many minutes a day are you willing to sacrifice "improving security"? Would you spend 2 minutes to detour through a single door with a guard (and have them close the other entrances)? Would you spend 10 minutes a day waiting to go through a metal detector? What about 20 minutes with everyone getting a strip search and having to wear lab gear?
We have the same problems with the absurd over-reactions to airplane security. Adding reinforced, locked cockpit doors did some good. Making me throw away my 8 oz water bottle-- not so much.
You have to do a cost/benefit analysis for all of these changes. (And unfortunately, the "benefit" is all for the TSA and the school administration on the off chance they prevent a problem, and the "cost" is all borne by the travelers and the students in inconvenience.)