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  Archive for March, 2009

from DallasNews.com Could a campus shooting be stopped by a student carrying a gun? A public hearing on a bill that would allow licensed concealed gun carriers to take their weapons to college is scheduled for today. – Proponents say that if students and instructors were armed it could cause would-be killers to rethink their [...]

Columbine reconstructed

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By M.L. Johnson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution At least three new books seeking to understand the Columbine school shooting in Colorado are coming out in time for next month’s 10th anniversary. Two are written by journalists who covered the rampage and then spent a decade looking into the killers’ backgrounds, the government investigation and survivors’ recovery. [...]

Expert reveals warning signs of workplace violence, in light of Homestead shootings

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By Candice Nelson, wsls.com The suspect in The Homestead shootings, Beacher Hackney, is still on the run. While the community is still in shock there, one local professor talked to us about warning signs that could have indicated something was wrong. Dr. Tod Burke is not an expert on Beacher Hackney but the Radford University [...]

Expert speaks on school violence prevention

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By Tonya Root, TheSunNews.com With the 10th anniversary of one of the nations’ worst school shootings about a month away, a school violence expert said local emergency officials should plan to prevent and manage such an incident here. The advice came Thursday during the final day of the state’s annual hurricane and emergency management conference. [...]

How to beat bullying

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By Melissa Desousa, The Kingston Whig Standard One afternoon 10 years ago, Mike Neuts’ life changed forever. On Feb. 6, 1998, Neuts’ son, Myles, was found unconscious, hanging from a coat hook in a washroom stall at his school in Chatham. Six days later, he was removed from life support after doctors told the Neuts [...]

Economic uncertainty boils over in workplace

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By Jessica Leeder, TheGlobeAndMail.com Waves of workers taking up arms have begun to give executives around the world something other than the bottom line to worry about. Among employees fed up with layoffs and cutbacks linked to the floundering economy, conventional labour negotiations are falling out of favour. Their substitute? More pointed tactics, particularly in [...]

Workplace Harassment and Bullying: Recognize Common Methods

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By Ben Leichtling, Blogger News Network There are too many reports of workplace harassment and bullying to list. It seems that at least 30 percent of managers and employees are bullied and harassed. Many critics and experts focus only on bullying bosses, but I’ve seen just as many employees and coworkers use these bullying methods [...]

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