By all accounts, 2016 has been a rough year. Beloved celebrities have died, hundreds of thousands of people have been rendered homeless by terrible floods, terrorist attacks are becoming commonplace, and we’re far too often confronted with the horror of another mass shooting. This came very close to home in June, when panic gripped the UCLA community amid reports of an active shooter on campus.
Students, faculty, and staff either fled or barricaded themselves in place, preparing for a Virginia Tech-scale tragedy. Ultimately, police determined that a disturbed post-grad shot and killed engineering professor William Klug in his office before turning the gun on himself.