Yes, there are at least two of us here. I'm trying to get to the bottom of the story and find out what, if anything, the school plans to do. I've made inquiries through a couple of my friends who still have good contacts on campus and I have sent a message to a professor whom I respect. I expect that the school's alumni will be provided with a more extensive briefing on this via e-mail or snail mail. I'll share if I hear anything interesting. For what its worth, I suspect that this incident is going to upset quite a few of the alumni.
For those of you who don't know the school, Holy Cross is a small Jesuit college (approximately 2,500 students) located in the working class city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Most of its students come from middle class and upper middle class Irish and Italian Catholic families. When I graduated fifteen years ago, 80 percent of the students were from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York or New Jersey. Politically, most alumni lay someplace between moderate Democrat and moderate Republican and believe in the American Dream. We tend to marry (often someone from HC), have kids and raise 'em Catholic. Often we end up in the professions as doctors, lawyers and accountants. Many of my classmates participated in AFROTC, NROTC and ROTC and remain on active duty today. Our alumni include Clarence Thomas, Joseph Califano, Bob Cousey and Chris Matthews. One of our Jesuits, Father Joseph T. O'Callahan, was the first chaplain to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions aboard USS Franklin. He is buried in the Jesuit Cemetary at the school. The student body today is pretty similar demographically to the description which appears above.
We are a small school and the alumni tend to remain close. At least six graduates died on September 11 and most of us either knew or have friends who knew the victims. I think that Professor Singleton's actions will upset the alumni and the school is going to have to do provide us with an explanation of his actions (and those of his colleagues) and the college's response to them. I expect there will be a serious, thinking and satisfactory response to Singleton by the school, although I doubt it will be the firing squad that many here would like. I think the alumni will demand some action and given the school's exceedingly high alumni participation rates in fund raising (51% of all alumni made donations this year to the school) something will happen.
Now I'm really mad at Prof. Singleton.