Georgia Republican governor Nathan Deal

When I was in college at the University of Iowa in 1991, there was a mass shooting. A graduate student, upset that he had not received a coveted honor, walked into a university building and shot and killed the three professors on his dissertation committee. He also killed his fellow student, the one who had been selected for the honor. The gunman then walked several blocks to an administrative office and asked to speak with the dean of student affairs with whom he had filed a grievance. When she walked out of her office, he killed her too. He also shot and critically injured a student worker in the dean’s office before killing himself. Our university’s president was also on his hit list, but luckily traveling out of state at the time.

Like other schools, the University of Iowa is made up of diverse groups of people who have come together to form an academic […]