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Columbine Shootings: Columbine High School
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The approaching anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings has increased public interest in plans for a permanent memorial. A Memorial Committee consisting of students, faculty and parents from Columbine High; a representative of the victim’s families; design professionals; emergency response agencies; community members; and representatives from R-1 Schools, Jefferson County and Foothills Park and Recreation District has been meeting regularly since July of 1999. The committee has created an organizational structure, developed a mission statement, goals and objectives and gathered 2,300 responses to a questionnaire provided to students, faculty, parents, and published in Columbine area newspapers. The committee has interviewed a number of firms and selected a consultant to assist with the memorial design process. A design team including local firm DHM Design, was retained to assist the committee with the public process and development of design alternatives.
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The shootings at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 constitute what Victor Turner classified as a social drama. The shootings were intended to resolve a power struggle within the Columbine High School community, and the shooters clearly intended to influence a national audience as well. The struggle over interpretation of the event on the national level, and the subsequent power that comes with success in this struggle, is the focus of this dissertation. Members of the community, media commentators, legislators, school board members, federal bureaucrats, and independent experts mutually agreed that the Columbine shootings were a sign of a larger, continuing crisis, and the aforementioned groups used the sense of urgency following the shootings as a means of advancing a wide range of pre-existing solutions for the crisis. Some experts... attempted to undermine the widely accepted notion of the school shooting crisis, using an analysis of Columbine to refocus the public’s attention on what these experts argued were the real problems posing the greatest danger to society. Although school shooting events continued to occur into 2003 and are likely to reoccur in the future, the school shooting crisis is over; it has been overwhelmed by the war on terror following the September 11 attacks.
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From the beginning of the investigation into the shootings at Columbine High School, a timeline was established. The result is a chronological account of the events of April 20, 1999, the movements of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the law enforcement and emergency responses and the media coverage. This report details of the case extensively, photos, diagrams, interviews, sound bytes.
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Jefferson County sheriffs were criticized in 1999 for waiting too long to enter Columbine high school once learning of the shootings. At Red Lake, police entered immediately, guns blazing, and engaged 16-year-old Jeff Wiese in a shootout. The Rocky Mountain News reports on the shift in police response:
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One year after the shootings at Columbine High School, the road to healing for families and the community has been slow and laden with setbacks. For many, the slayings of two Columbine sophomores on February 14 at a local Subway sandwich shop shattered an already fragile and tortured recovery process.
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The discussion assignment for Week 11 includes an electronic packet of articles written in the wake of the highly publicized 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in the predominantly white and upper-middle-class Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado. These articles are brief, and together they are designed to provide a sampling of the media coverage, political responses, "expert" opinions, and youth perspectives on the incident. The links should take you directly to the articles; some are multiple links.
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