Monthly Archive: August 2008

Aug 29 2008

Campus gets safety Web site

By Monica Swapp, UtahStatesman.com USU has created a campus safety Web site in response to a national increase in student suicide and threatening behavior, a rising expectation from parents about university safety involvement, as well as a legislative bill requiring all universities to have a safety emergency notification system. Student safety resources have been available …

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Aug 29 2008

Managing Your Bad Boss

By David Silverman, BusinessWeek.com So, your boss is a dud. A bully. A person you’d do anything to avoid. Maybe he or she embodies all of the habits I wrote about in the first post in this series. What now? First, here’s my short list of how we may make the workplace bearable when our …

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Aug 28 2008

Prevent Future Massacres By Curbing Bullying

By Sherwood Ross, www.scoop.co.nz Society could reduce the number of senseless killings on campuses and in workplaces and shopping malls if it paid closer attention to aggrieved individuals, many of whom were the targets of prior bullying, a prominent psychologist says. Michael McCullough, who has made a 20-year study of revenge, contends that after massacres …

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Aug 27 2008

Learning How to Survive a Shooter on Campus

By Lisa Cisneros, The University of California, San Francisco Lessons at UCSF don’t typically teach students how to take down a suspect, but these are not typical times. UCSF Police Chief Pam Roskowski invited officers from UC Davis Police Department to give faculty, staff, students and trainees a basic lesson on how to survive the …

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