Almost everybody involved in the day-to-day concerns back then had been at the university for years. The only new person was Dr. Lombardi. He was incredibly compassionate . . . and eminently believable as a dad and as a higher-eduction administrator.
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You make a mistake, you keep going.Linda Gray
Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. ... You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.
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At the time, it was deemed probably the worst crisis to hit a college campus in modern times. There had been murders and shootings on campuses before, but in most of those cases the perpetrators were immediately known. This was a situation where five bodies were found over a three-day period . . . and Danny Rolling was not charged for almost a year.
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As I went around the side, the dog came running at me and threw me off guard. Luckily I just bought a new weed eater and it's the kind you don't have to tap. I turned it on and it scared the dog. I kept it on and kept shoving it at the dog.
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If I hadn't continued working for a university, I might not think about it every day.
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