Sorority accidentally puts Univ. of Michigan on active shooter lockdown

[Kevin]

I wonder whether UM has Orgsync or something similar and whether this event was scheduled on Orgsync. If so, I'd cast some blame on the University for not picking up how this might be problematic. It's not reasonable to expect college students or even their advisers to connect popping balloons with triggering folks over mosque shootings.

It's a shame that we have an expectation for some bullshit apology tour. Popping balloons =/= Islamophobia. They never should have felt compelled to apologize.

[chi-o_cat]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I wonder whether UM has Orgsync or something similar and whether this event was scheduled on Orgsync. If so, I'd cast some blame on the University for not picking up how this might be problematic. It's not reasonable to expect college students or even their advisers to connect popping balloons with triggering folks over mosque shootings.

It's a shame that we have an expectation for some bullshit apology tour. Popping balloons =/= Islamophobia. They never should have felt compelled to apologize.

Even if they did use a scheduling program, at a huge school like Michigan, there are probably all kinds of different events going on at all hours of the day and evening. I would imagine that as long as there are not room conflicts, there wouldn't be time to go through every event and make sure that the noise level (and types of noises) will be compatible with other events going on in the general vicinity. I'm sure the sorority event would been listed as "sorority meeting" or something fairly generic, not "Balloon popping time."

But, yes, I agree that it is unfortunate that an event timing issue is being equated to Islamophobia.

[carnation]

I would hate it if I heard that anyone is trying to make the sorority think they're bigots because of this.