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Tragedy sparks memories and change

By Jeff Gilbride/Daily News staff
Daily News Tribune
Posted Apr 15, 2008 @ 12:43 AM

WALTHAM —

A year ago Wednesday, Kalynn Cook's childhood friend was killed when Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus.

To mark the…

Tags: anniversary, bentley college, brandeis, campus safety, candlelight vigil, emergency notification system

46% of students feel unsafe, audit finds - Administrators rethink security measures in dorms

Issue date: 4/18/07 Section: News
By Justin Hedani
Ka Leo News Editor

After what is being called the deadliest shooting in American history, the Virginia Tech shooting has many students questioning their safety - especially at the…

Tags: campus safety, dorm safety, safety survey, uhawaii

Vigil pays respect to Virginia Tech victims and families

By: Laura Fong | Freelance reporter |
Issue date: 4/25/07 Section: News

In honor of the 33 lives lost during the Virginia Tech shooting on April 16, University students and community members held a candlelight vigil in the Erb Memorial Union…

Tags: campus safety, candlelight vigil, facebook, university of oregon

Public Safety Takes Over as Card-Swipers

PUBLISHED APRIL 17, 2007

Beginning today and lasting at least through the end of the semester, students will no longer work as card-swipers at the front desks of on-campus residences and Lerner Hall.

The change, announced yesterday, came in…

Tags: campus safety, columbia, dorms, on-campus residences, public safety officers

Task Force to better secure OSU campus

By: Alaina Busch
Posted: 4/30/07
Representatives from Ohio's colleges and universities will meet today as part of a statewide effort to address campus security issues and concerns.

Today's meeting is the first for the Campus Security…

Tags: campus safety, campus security, ohio state university, prevention, university response

Shooting proves need for gun control laws

By: Joe Bialek
Posted: 5/2/07

The shooting crisis at Virginia Tech has once again sparked the debate about gun control. The second amendment of the United States Constitution states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a…

Tags: campus safety, gun control, ohio state university, public safety

Gun licenses safe choice

By: Karl Spaulding
Posted: 5/7/07
When Florida liberalized its restrictive and disjointed system of concealed carry laws in 1987, many states followed suit. In each case, naysayers predicted everything from "blood in the streets" to "parking lot…

Tags: campus safety, concealed carry, gun control, ohio state university

Summit reviews campus safety

By: Benjamin Lammers
Posted: 8/7/07

More than 350 representatives from Ohio's universities met at Ohio State's Fawcett Center last week to discuss school safety and the state of security and disaster response.

Following the shootings…

Tags: campus safety, emergency preparedness , ohio state university, university response

Sympathy resounds in wake of VT tragedy

By:Editorial Board
Posted: 4/17/07

On Monday April 16, 32 Virginia Tech students were killed in a tragic shooting incident. The Miami Student editorial board is shocked and deeply saddened by this abhorrent act, and our thoughts and prayers go…

Tags: campus safety, miami university, sympathy, tragedy, university response

Grieving nation copes with tragedy

University reps. meet with BPD to discuss prevention

By: Andrew FitzGerald
Posted: 4/18/07

The day after a Virginia Tech senior shot and killed 32 people on campus and himself, representatives from 19 Boston-area colleges who met at Boston…

Tags: boston university, campus safety, campus security, coping

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