Word: kazmierczak
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...Hall, and will include 10 classrooms, as well as three 250-seat auditoriums. But some at NIU are not sure that is the perfect way to remember the trauma. "It almost seems like they're letting fear dictate their actions. People are trying to say that what [gunman] Steven Kazmierczak did can't stop us. But by tearing down Cole Hall, it does stop us from living as we normally would," says Colin Leicht, a 27-year-old NIU senior...
...someone that was revered by the faculty and staff and students alike.' DONALD GRADY, Northern Illinois University police chief, on graduate student Steven Kazmierczak, who opened fire in a lecture hall on Feb. 14, killing five students and wounding 16 others before taking his own life...
...vulnerable to attack. Kazmierczak’s rampage was not a result of failing campus security at NIU. On the contrary, officers responded immediately to a call of shots fired on campus at 3 p.m. and by 3:07 p.m., the campus was on lockdown. Had Kazmierczak not killed himself at the scene of the attack, these security procedures—put in place after last April’s shooting at Virginia Tech—most likely would have prevented further killings. But in spite of elaborate security measures, random and tragic acts of violence are impossible to prevent...
...there security lessons to be learned? The suddenness of the attack meant there was little time for campus authorities to interdict Kazmierczak. So the lessons may be fuzzy at most. One piece of college folklore, however, may no longer apply. After last spring's Virginia Tech shootings, students in many schools figured it'd be safer to sit in the back of the class because of the belief that most of those killed in that rampage had been at the front of their classes. No more...
Caspillan is trying to forget those six minutes in the lecture room. But they seem to be an eternity. Kazmierczak keeps appearing in her head, she says. "I couldn't sleep. The scene, it just kept going on and on," she says of the first night after. Says Santos, "We're still just so scared...