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VT shooting brought changes to UWG campus

Ross Arrowsmith — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:28:47 +0000

By Winston Jones The Virginia Tech shooting massacre, which occurred five years ago yesterday, brought many security changes to college campuses across the country, including University of West Georgia. On April 16, 2007, a Virginia Tech student, Seung-Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 25 others on the Blacksburg, Va., campus before taking …

Oakland school shooting: Is there a lesson to be learned from the tragedy?

Ross Arrowsmith — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:36:12 +0000

By Daniel B. Wood Would a school counselor have detected the shooter’s mounting frustrations before he attacked? Should students have reacted more forcefully in their own defense? As more details trickle out about the shooting rampage Monday morning that claimed the lives of six students and a receptionist at Oikos University in Oakland, criminologists, behavioral …

Farmington emergency responders train at schools

Ross Arrowsmith — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:22:06 +0000

By Ryan Boetel, Farmington Daily Times Farmington is training to be ready for one of the scariest violent crimes. In recent weeks, all Farmington police officers and firefighters, and San Juan Regional Medical Center’s ambulance drivers and paramedics simulated a response to a school shooting. It’s the first time the city emergency response agencies have …

Videos teach faculty, students how to react in campus shooting

Ross Arrowsmith — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:35:44 +0000

By Shawn Raymundo, Statepress.com In an effort to further protect University staff and students from potential harm, ASU Police has posted safety-training videos through Blackboard, providing instructions on what to do during various emergency situations, including encountering a shooter on campus. “(The videos are) helpful and we just wanted to make them available to the …

Best Practices: University of Utah’s Disruptive Behavior, Harassment and Violence Policy

Ross Arrowsmith — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:00:31 +0000

By Shwan Javdan, The Daily Utah Chronicle A series of policies and regulations, particularly regarding violence and disruptive behavior in the academic environment, were documented and clarified in the Regulations Library. The primary modifications involved making certain policies coincide with Human Resource and U practices and procedures. “Every few years, policies have to be reviewed …

Illinois police officers train for dangerous scenarios

Ross Arrowsmith — Thu, 19 May 2011 13:03:07 +0000

By Mary Schenk, The Carmi Times There’s only about one kind of call that scares a police officer more than a shooting at a shopping mall. “Our nightmare scenario would be a school shooting, followed by a shooting at the mall,” said Champaign police Sgt. Bob Rea, commander of the department’s SWAT team. That’s why …

The Columbine legacy – Still strong after all these years

Ross Arrowsmith — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:00:35 +0000

By James Alan Fox, Corrections.com It hardly seems like a dozen years since the April 20, 1999 Columbine massacre in which Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris turned a Denver-suburban high school into their personal battle ground, killing 12 students and one teacher, before committing suicide. Despite the fact that today’s high school students are too …

Arming Teachers and Staff…Improving School Safety?

Ross Arrowsmith — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:10:09 +0000

By Rick Shaw, Awareity.com In response to the January 2011 shooting at a Nebraska high school that killed one school administrator and seriously injured another, Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial has introduced LB 516. The bill would allow security guards, administrators and teachers to carry a concealed handgun at Nebraska public and private schools, including …

UCLA response teams act to prevent violence on campus

Ross Arrowsmith — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:40:32 +0000

By Alexia Boyarsky, UCLA Daily Bruin Four weeks ago, a college dropout with a history of mental instability and threatening behavior walked into a Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Ariz., and opened fire on the crowd. Although events as violent as this are uncommon at UCLA, they are likely to make people more aware of their …

From Arizona Shootings, Teachable Moments

Ross Arrowsmith — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:38:33 +0000

By Ed Schmidt , The Huffington Post In April 2007, I was at a national school conference in San Francisco. Coming out of the general session I was surprised to see the name of my alma mater scrolling on a news marquee. March Madness was long over and football season had months to go before …