Monthly Archive: July 2008

Jul 31 2008

Push grows for guns on campus

By Jimmy Isaac, News-Journal.com Weston Cartwright remembers his first week at LeTourneau University in 2006, and how he amazed his dorm mates when he returned unharmed from a walk to a South Longview restaurant. “They were like, ‘Are you serious?’ ” Cartwright said. Since then, he’s seen and heard why fellow students deemed a trip …

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Jul 30 2008

Grants to Plan and Prepare for Campus Emergencies

from U.S. Department of Education U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the award of $5.2 million for 13 new grants to colleges and universities to develop and implement emergency management plans for preventing and responding to campus violence and natural disasters in order to ensure the safety of the entire campus community. “Keeping …

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Jul 30 2008

Men who are bullied often do the same: study

By Wallace Immen, Globe and Mail Men who are victims of workplace bullying often resort to bullying others as a way of coping, a University of Windsor researcher concludes. In a survey of 180 male workers in Saskatchewan who had been victims of bullying, 37 per cent indicated that they had bullied others with behaviours …

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Jul 29 2008

Federal judge upholds guns-at-work law

By Aaron Deslatte, OrlandoSentinel.com A federal judge has dealt a major defeat to Florida’s business lobby by upholding the main thrust of a new law allowing employees with concealed weapons permits to take their guns to work. The so called “guns-at-work” law was the product of a three-year constitutional clash that pitted the powerful National …

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