What to Do When the Outrage Is Aimed at Your Campus
The email arrived two days after a gunman killed a dozen people at the Washington Navy Yard. A reporter at Campus Reform, a conservative website, was asking the University of Kansas for reaction to a tweet by one of its professors. "The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time let it be YOUR sons and daughters," the tweet had said. The university issued a statement, and the story was posted the next day. "Journalism professor says he hopes for murder of NRA members’ children," the headline read. Once the National Rifle Association picked up the story, everything else at the university seemed to stop.