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Posted: 1/30/2013 2:50 PM
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First Street Forever wrote:expand_more

Is this a genuine safety concern?

      A CYA lawyeresque response? 
 
                 A statement on how fragile today's college students are?

                              A product of the helicopter parenting movement that has rendered a veal generation?

                                               Bravo! Good work to you all.





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Posted: 1/30/2013 2:51 PM
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The decision was likely made in hopes that the new date gets picked up by ESPNU . . .

. . . for 11am.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 2:54 PM
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First Street Forever wrote:expand_more

Is this a genuine safety concern?

      A CYA lawyeresque response? 
 
                 A statement on how fragile today's college students are?

                              A product of the helicopter parenting movement that has rendered a veal generation?

                                               Bravo! Good work to you all.





how the F is this a reflection on the college students? I guarantee if the game was on there would be plenty of students there.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 2:56 PM
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The logic of this escapes me.



Closing the campus or canceling the game?
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Posted: 1/30/2013 2:57 PM
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FWIW,
 

I personally think the closing of campus two hours after the incident (forget hoops) was a bit of an overreaction that may not have happened if it wasn't for today's climate over issues like this. 
 

However, I've seen some arguments that "it wasn't even on campus.". From everything I've seen, had this robbery happened 10 yards to the east across the street this would've been on campus.  And that is the direction the guy with the gun ran....  Just something to consider...

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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:00 PM
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Alan Swank wrote:expand_more

The logic of this escapes me.



Closing the campus or canceling the game?


Based on the information available ......both.
The latter being more ridiculous than the former of course.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:08 PM
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I wonder how much of this is influenced by recent events.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:10 PM
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This pisses me off to no end.  I scheduled to be at a client in Canal Winchester today for the benefit of getting to the game easier.  My wife scheduled to meet up with a friend in Canal so she could then drop our son off to me so he could go with me.  All this for nothing...and all because someone got robbed 10 hours prior.   I guess we'll enjoy a nice dinner in Canal tonight.

I understand the elevated sensitivity to this sort of thing right now, but nothing about this showed that type of threat at all.  He was robbing someone for personal gain, and ran away.  I'm sorry but this does not scream crazy man on the loose threatening the lives of many.  This sort of thing happens daily all over the country and nobody cancels all events in the area for the day.

This crap, Kent game this year, Akron game last year...It is becoming harder and harder to be an out of town fan who alters plans in the name of supporting Ohio Basketball.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:11 PM
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I wonder how much of this is influenced by recent events.


Bingo! He had a gun! If this was a knife robbery nothing would of changed. This is a complete joke, would OSU cancel a game due to a robbery? I dont think so
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:11 PM
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The game has been rescheduled and will be played on Wednesday, February 20 at 7 p.m.

 http://www.mac-sports.com/tabid/969/Article/193792/Ohio-v...
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:11 PM
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The Optimist wrote:expand_more

FWIW,
 

I personally think the closing of campus two hours after the incident (forget hoops) was a bit of an overreaction that may not have happened if it wasn't for today's climate over issues like this. 
 

However, I've seen some arguments that "it wasn't even on campus.". From everything I've seen, had this robbery happened 10 yards to the east across the street this would've been on campus.  And that is the direction the guy with the gun ran....  Just something to consider...



How often does Xavier, or Buffalo, close down for armed robbery across the street from campus? Or the University of Chicago for that matter
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:12 PM
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edit: Tilly beat me to it
Last Edited: 1/30/2013 3:12:35 PM by Tyler
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I would understand if this guy shot someone, but it was an off campus robbery where nobody (luckily) was hurt. This was on the bottom line of ESPN saying there was an armed gunman on campus making it sound like some kind of VT situation happened and thats why the game was cancelled. This is getting national attention about something that would of been a complete afterthought in a week if the University had not overreacted.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:16 PM
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So if they haven't caught the guy tomorrow are classes still closed?   I can understand immediately closing the campus.  But if nothing has happened within a couple of hours after the event then it's absurd to keep things closed. 
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:18 PM
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The cancelling of the game leads to bad press for an incident that seems to be overblown. Without the game cancellation, this probably doesn't make news outside of Athens. Much less nationally.  
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:20 PM
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APD isn't even actively searching for the dude anymore
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:21 PM
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 Just a guess, but with the university closed....athletics didnt have a choice
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:22 PM
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mf279801 wrote:expand_more

FWIW,
 

I personally think the closing of campus two hours after the incident (forget hoops) was a bit of an overreaction that may not have happened if it wasn't for today's climate over issues like this. 
 

However, I've seen some arguments that "it wasn't even on campus.". From everything I've seen, had this robbery happened 10 yards to the east across the street this would've been on campus.  And that is the direction the guy with the gun ran....  Just something to consider...



How often does Xavier, or Buffalo, close down for armed robbery across the street from campus? Or the University of Chicago for that matter

 


 

The official release I read said "the individual fled on foot towards Stocker Center"

 

It takes 2 seconds to cross the road/bridge over there and get on campus...  Without flat out saying the "guy with the gun ran on campus" that is the what it sounds like happened.
 

Note that OUPD is handling this case, not APD


 

 

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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:23 PM
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Okay, but look at it from OU's point of view.  If they DON'T cancel the game and close campus and something else happens, say someone gets shot, then they get a black eye for not doing this. It sucks, yes, and I too have had my plans messed up because of this.  At the same time, I certainly understand the thinking given the situation with gun control related issues.  It's really a no win situation caused by some jerk robbing someone for five bucks.  I hope they catch the perp, and I hope they end up in prison.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:23 PM
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Better just suspend all campus activities for the remainder of the academic year until we can find the bad bad man.

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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:24 PM
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Well look at the bright side; we have no need to recover from a game and can now look ahead to Akron.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:27 PM
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Well look at the bright side; we have no need to recover from a game and can now look ahead to Akron.


True, but now we lose time to prepare for a road BracketBuster game against an unfamiliar opponent.
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:30 PM
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Well look at the bright side; we have no need to recover from a game and can now look ahead to Akron.


True, but now we lose time to prepare for a road BracketBuster game against an unfamiliar opponent.


Still sucks, but I'd take  win over Akron over a bracket buster every time (assuming we lose one.)
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Posted: 1/30/2013 3:35 PM
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If they DON'T cancel the game and close campus and something else happens, say someone gets shot, then they get a black eye for not doing this. It sucks, yes, and I too have had my plans messed up because of this.  At the same time, I certainly understand the thinking given the situation with gun control related issues.


The Sandy Hook shooting was random violence with no regard for human life.  If someone can find a case of a robbery resulting in a school shooting hours later ever happening in the history of the world, I'd love to hear about it.
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