By Stephannie Furtak, Yale Daily News
Thanks to a group of Yale electrical engineering students, Blackberry users at Yale may soon be able to carry campus security blue phones in their pockets.
The group is getting ready to launch a free Smartphone application called BScope Mobile, which uses state-of-the-art intelligence technology to interpret raw GPS data, [...]

By Amber Cox, The Rider News
A gun lobby and the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus are fighting each other on the issue of allowing — or not allowing — guns on college campuses.
After the mass shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Northern Illinois University in 2008, the gun lobby decided to call for [...]

By Ville Ukkola, Helsinki Times
The marginalization of the perpetrator of the school shootings in Jokela was of a special kind, the result of several contributory factors. The family, upbringing and the school community but also the rest of society are in a prime position for preventing marginalization, contends the Investigation Commission appointed by the Council [...]

By Kevin Diakiw, Surrey North Delta Leader
Employers are beginning to realize the cost of workplace bullying, as some experts estimate it can cost organizations up to $20,000 annually per worker targeted by physical or psychological harassment.
If left unchecked, harassment at work can result in loss of general morale, erosion of an organization’s efficiencies, absenteeism, turnover, [...]

By Maeve McGovern, Irish Independent
Bullying is not something that stays solely within the confines of the schoolyard — it can just as easily creep into the workplace. It can be a hugely stressful experience, causing a lot of damage to both the employee and the employer.
Recent studies carried out on the area of bullying [...]

By Alex Gasick, The Lewis University Flyer
April 20, 1999, was not only a tragic day but was also a watershed day regarding safety in schools and on college campuses across the country.
This was the day two high school seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 13 people and wounded 23 others, before taking their [...]

By Shawn Doherty, The Capital Times
Instructions in the 23-page manual from a local outplacement firm make it sound easy.
Prepare a “private setting” with at least two chairs, a desk or a table, and no windows facing work areas. Equip the room with a phone and “all necessary materials; tissues, cups and a pitcher of water [...]

By Emily Ramshaw, The Dallas Morning News
John Woods’ heart still jumps when he hears hammering or shouting outside his window, even two years after his girlfriend was shot and killed in the Virginia Tech massacre. The routine emergency sirens at the University of Texas, where he’s now a molecular biology graduate student, tie his stomach [...]

By Anna Wild & Jonann Brady, ABC News
The bullying magazine executive played by Meryl Streep in the film “The Devil Wears Prada” is played for laughs, but women bullying other female employees in the real world is no laughing matter.
Joan Frye, who worked in a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., said she endured nearly two [...]

By Marie Price, The Journal Record
An Oklahoma law prohibiting employers from banning guns in workers’ locked vehicles in company parking lots survived arguments that the statute constitutes an illegal taking of property and is pre-empted by the federal Occupational Health and Safety Act, said an Oklahoma City University School of Law professor.
Assistant OCU law professor [...]