We learned that no place is safe, ... Gainesville had not had that kind of dreadful experience before, and I think that's why it hit so hard. It was an end of an innocence for the community.
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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.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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If I hadn't continued working for a university, I might not think about it every day.
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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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If he hadn't gotten those young women it would have been someone else.
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I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
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