Georgetown University took almost an hour to inform students of a shooting incident just blocks from campus. Why the delay? We put the question to the school’s administrative bigwigs, and this is what they said.

DeGioia: “I just get a little antsy about acting on our own, you know? Like—when should we inform students about an emergency that may pose an imminent danger to their safety? Immediately? After an hour? When Wheel of Fortune airs? It’s tough to say. Harvard always seems to get things right, though. Knowing that, I asked my assistant to see how Harvard responded to these sorts of things in the past. Apparently, they respond pretty quickly. By the time we figured that out, half an hour had passed, but hey, we needed to be sure.” 

Groves: “I’ll be honest I wasn’t really paying attention to the whole thing. You know what did catch my attention though? This show ‘Euphoria’! I mean hubba hubba! This Angus Cloud character is a little hunk isn’t he?” [this comment was truncated to spare readers]
GUPD Chief: “Imma keep it 100 with you—we really don’t care.”