Created through extensive research and interviews with local residents, this two-part piece first sets up a fictional but realistic world of adolescence that could be anywhere in America, and then morphs into the factual events leading directly to the school shootings at Columbine in 1999. COLUMBINUS asks more than just, "Why?" but perhaps more importantly, "Why do people treat each other the way we do?"
Created through extensive research and interviews with local residents, this two-part piece first sets up a fictional but realistic world of adolescence that could be anywhere in America, and then morphs into the factual events leading directly to the school shootings at Columbine in 1999. COLUMBINUS asks more than just, "Why?" but perhaps more importantly, "Why do people treat each other the way we do?"
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