I’ve already gone from being glued to the media, looking for any news that might tell me what was going on, to being completely tired of the coverage of this bloody spectacle.

I would like some closure, I don’t really care about Answers though.

To questions such as How Could This Happen In America or What About Those Gun Control Laws.

I would like the Virginia Tech Administration to apologize.

Whether it is fair or not to place blame on them, I don’t trust the campus leadership to do their utmost to try to keep us – the university community- safe. I believe that they are disorganized at best. At worst, they are more concerned with trying to build the school’s reputation than with safety.

Because the fact is that, following 9-11 and following the shootings here last August, the school and local law enforcement agencies should have known that potential terrorist action on campus is a real and valid concern. They should have been suspicious.

I think this would be an appropriate apology on the part of President Steger:

“I wish that the leadership of this university, including myself, had acted more decisively and made the proactive choice to cancel class pending a more thorough investigation of the shooting events in AJ.

In this era which is so conscious of the threat of terrorism, I realize than in hindsight our actions basically reflected a smug feeling that ‘it couldn’t happen here.’ We obviously wanted to believe that surely a shooting in a campus dormitory was an isolated incident. We decided to believe it could not have been part of a premeditated strike. We decided to believe that there was no real reason for concern- well, not enough reason for concern to spend lots of money and effort on it.

While a campus of this size is difficult to secure, I know I could have done more. I realize my own failure to notify faculty, staff, and students of a known threat before they began to arrive on campus for work and class was a significant error in judgment with a tremendous cost in human suffering.

I have in effect murdered 30 people and I am sorry for my part in this. I am sorry for my failure to act. I am sorry for my failure to notify the university community of the threat. I am sorry for trying to spin this yesterday in order to spare the jobs of myself and my colleagues.

I am hereby announcing my intention to resign as soon as the school is seen through the immediate aftermath of these events.”

If you are going to be in charge of a place this size, and you have exclusive access to push information to the local and campus media, then you have a responsibility to use that power wisely.

That is what leadership is.

Just like the people who lived near Nazi concentration camps and pretended they couldn’t smell the bodies burning in the ovens, the Virginia Tech campus leadership is complicit in murder by association and by inaction. And that is morally repugnant.