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RyanSMU98 wrote:Related question: what in the world is wrong with the parents of these kids?? Heard about the outage on Facebook last night, and by the response from these helicopter parents you would have thought SMU dropped their poor, defenseless children in the middle of the jungle with no food, no clothes and CLEARLY no means to take care of themselves. I seriously fear for our future if these special snowflakes are SO rattled by a power outage.

edwa wrote:The new commons the locks are electric, but are run on a seperate system to main power. The main electric locks to get into buildings run on main power and wouldnt work. Main problem was that students included me, were given 39 minutes to evacuate, and when your sitting off campus at a coffee shop to get work done that not a lot of time to make it back, and pack a overnight bag.

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edwa wrote:The new commons the locks are electric, but are run on a seperate system to main power. The main electric locks to get into buildings run on main power and wouldnt work. Main problem was that students included me, were given 39 minutes to evacuate, and when your sitting off campus at a coffee shop to get work done that not a lot of time to make it back, and pack a overnight bag.

A lot of items to hit here but it seems the student life staff are not adequately prepared for unexpected incidents nor trained to respond. Having said that, it doesn't explain or excuse the response from parents and students. The responses evidence a troubling trend of excessively manicured lives being managed by parents at the expense of students actually learning about life and adapting to the daily machinations of their future existence once the umbilical cord is finally cut.


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dr. rick wrote:I think you are being way to harsh on the students (although they might need the pacifier for other things). the first messages from the university were to get out of the dorms, without telling the students where they should go. only hours later were they told to go to the towers or to the methodist church. think about it. get out of the dorms, but not being told where to go. maybe sit in the rain, as the other campus buildings were being locked down. failure by administration of planning for emergency. rumor has it that it has something to do with the mythical tunnels under SMU.

dr. rick wrote:I think you are being way to harsh on the students (although they might need the pacifier for other things). the first messages from the university were to get out of the dorms, without telling the students where they should go. only hours later were they told to go to the towers or to the methodist church. think about it. get out of the dorms, but not being told where to go. maybe sit in the rain, as the other campus buildings were being locked down. failure by administration of planning for emergency. rumor has it that it has something to do with the mythical tunnels under SMU.