Following the Virginia Tech shootings, Public Safety has announced that all Student Aides, who help man dorm security desks, are to be replaced with regular security guards for the rest of the semester. In an email sent today by Student Aide Coordinator Andrew Ness (provided after the jump), students who work at the desks were told to pick up their paychecks and not to report for duty again.

Some who wrote to Bwog questioned the move, especially because students were invited to apply again for the same positions when Fall semester came around. "They did not provide a correlation between the shootings and exactly why we should lose our jobs," said one of the students affected. "It's only bad if we're randomly killed now, but not in September?"

Bwog posed this question to Mr. Ness, who wrote that he was not at liberty to discuss Public Safety's plans in further detail. He simply confirmed that, following "the events at Virginia Tech[,] the University is reexamining its security policies to ensure the continued safety of the University community and to maintain our position as the safest Ivy League School."

UPDATE, Wednesday, 11:12 AM: Assistant VP for Strategic Communications and Planning Rosemary Keane assures us that no students will lose their jobs--all will be reassigned to jobs in Housing and Dining.

- CJS

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