sadness and fright

Well,

For the first time since the Revolution started i officially don't know if i feel safe anymore....
The main reason? My University's overly-strong commitment to having an academic semester do-or-die. Well I don't want to die to have a semester. Their communications about safety issues in Cairo lately are completely incoherent. One department tells us that "there is some elevated risk, please remain vigilent."
The actual administration is telling us that all the rumors and fears are completely unsubstantiated and that no one has anything to fear.
Another department (one of mine) has suspended classes until further notice because "the security response of the University is not adequate to protect us."
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON!
Someone died today in the continuing protests in Tahrir and my classmates who had classes there tonight were LOCKED IN and were not allowed to leave for their own safety!

Messages are flying around about more students being kidnapped at bus stops and messages saying this stuff is not true. Petitions to suspend classes until the situation improves and petitions to not do anything because its all not true.

No one knows how to respond anymore because none of us are getting a full picture of information. I think the University, which happens to be in debt past its eyeballs because of the staggering costs of the new campus and maintaining the old one simultaneously, is looking out for its own financial interests in ensuring that we all pay for this semester at ANY cost.
This proposition (though hopefully untrue) enrages me if I find that it is true.

I don't know what's true - but i do know that even state schools are suspending classes because of the increased violence and uneasy security situations....
PRAY FOR EGYPT. THIS TRANSITION WILL NOT BE EASY.