Ditto on the tin foil, but no one has defamed your school in any way. An MIT cop was killed, right? So that's part of the story now. I hope your friends and colleagues there are ok.
So far, everyone is okay, one of my friends lived across the street from the two guys, and the initial shoot out occurred outside of the building where quite a few people i am friends with worked.
Dude. When I saw an MIT cop had been shot, I wondered if it might be related. No one is impugning anything, and your insistence that the mere thought that anyone attending MIT might have been involved is insulting to you personally somehow is assinine. You really need to calm down.
No, you didn't just wonder, you implied a connection. Considering the only reason the university was mentioned was because their LEO was killed, and the initial incident occurred on the campus border, which you could have easily checked, it was tin foil hattery, and implied something about a group of people.
Is it possible that there are radical people that go there, sure, but quite literally everyone I know there doubts that such a person would be not be found out extremely quickly--its a small community, and one that is quite tight, amd actually quite homogeneous in terms of how to solve problems in the world, so by "wondering", you do in fact impugn a group by theoretical association.
I am calm.