My daughter goes to Hartt, and they’re all traumatized by this. It didn’t happen in acting class - the boy was rehearsing a scene for a student film with two film majors in their dorm.
My daughter was friends with the boy who committed the stabbing - there are only 19 kids in the freshman acting class, so they’re a very close-knit group - and she and the other kids are all totally shocked. She saw no warning signs in him at all. He must have had some kind of undiagnosed mental issue, is all I can think.
I don’t think it reflects on the school at all, though. This student could have attended any school, and then it would have happened at THAT school. I will say that the university has brought in trauma counselors to talk to the kids, and they’re all taking advantage of that, and their teachers have all been talking to them and trying to help them process it too.