About a dozen Michigan State University students gathered on campus, urging school officials to stop holding classes inside Berkey Hall. A gunman entered a classroom inside the building last February, and fatally shot two students and injured several others. A third student was killed outside the MSU Union.
University officials have now decided to reopen Berkey Hall for classes, sealing off the rooms where the shooting took place. But students like Cassidy Howard say its just too soon to return.
“I was in that class this morning, my first class. And it just it's a lot, it's hard to focus and to learn when every small noise in that building is still so scary. Even though you know, lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. It's always in the back of your mind.”
MSU is providing counselors and therapy dogs on site for students taking classes in the building. About 270 classes are being held at Berkey Hall this semester.
