How To Prevent A Tragedy
Newsweek, January, 2008 by Pat Wingert
Tucked away in rural Southwest Virginia, remote Blacksburg is an unlikely spot for the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Nevertheless, an April 16 rampage by a mentally disturbed student, Seung-Hui Cho, left 32 people dead. In the wake of that tragedy, Virginia Tech has begun to make changes in its campus security, student-privacy policies and mental-health services. But it’s not the only one. Here’s what some institutions around the country are doing:
Campuswide Text Systems
IN the aftermath of the shooting, many schools scrambled to devise systems that would allow them to issue campuswide text messages in the event of an emergency—something Virginia Tech was roundly criticized for not doing. Harvard, Penn State and Florida A&M are among the schools that...
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