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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/virginia-tech-response-broke-law.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Virginia Tech could be fined because it broke the law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-virginia-tech-response-broke-law.jpg" alt="Virginia Tech could be fined because it broke the law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage"/></a></p>
<p>The US government has said Virginia Tech university broke the law by waiting two hours to tell the campus that a gunman was loose at the outset of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.</p>
<p>In a report, the Department of Education rejected Virginia Tech&#8217;s argument that its response to the 2007 shooting rampage met standards in place at the time.</p>
<p>&#8220;Virginia Tech&#8217;s failure to issue timely warnings about the serious and ongoing threat deprived its students and employees of vital, time-sensitive information and denied them the opportunity to take adequate steps to provide for their own safety,&#8221; the report stated.</p>
<p>The department found in January that the university violated the Clery Act, which requires notification of on-campus threats to students and employees.</p>
<p>The report found the school broke the law by failing to issue a timely warning to the Blacksburg campus after student Seung-Hui Cho shot dead two students in a dormitory early on April 16 2007.</p>
<p>The university sent out an email to the campus more than two hours later, about the time Cho was chaining shut the doors to a classroom building where he killed 30 more students and staff, then himself.</p>
<p>The report also determined that the school failed to follow its own procedures for providing such notification.</p>
<p>Virginia Tech could be fined £17,400 for each violation, for a total of £34,800. The school could also lose some or all its £62 million in government student financial aid, though such an outcome is considered unlikely.</p>
<p>A decision will be made by a Department of Education panel.</p>
<p>Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said the school would probably appeal if it was sanctioned.</p>
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