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Normal Service to Resume Next Week. . .

 

Arielle Anderson, Alexandria Verner, and Brian Fraser.

Three students here at Michigan State University died senselessly in yet another (apparently random) mass shooting earlier this week.  Five others were seriously injured.  

A colleague, a man with whom I have served on a committee in the recent past, taught two of them and saw them shot during his evening class on Cuban history.  

Not the first time something like this has happened in the U.S., and I expect not the last.  There really are no words to adequately describe or explain any of this. 

But yes.  Let's do keep shouting loudly about and lobbying for the right to keep and bear arms.  You know.  To keep that secretive world army at bay, which is just poised to invade beyond the Canadian border.  

If finding an academic job, picking up, and moving were easier, I am now ready to relocate to a somewhat more peaceful society.  What a world we have created.

-- Heinz-Ulrich

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  1. CharlottesvilleFebruary 16, 2023 at 8:34 AM

    So sorry, H-U. As you may know a similar senseless shooting occurred here at UVA recently. It is all so sad.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2023 at 11:28 AM

    Thank you, Charlottesville. Yes, I recall that particular tragedy too. You never think it can happen in your own neck of the woods. And then it does. What is wrong with us??!!

    H-U

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