Click This: Student Safety
Should Virginia Tech have been locked down following the first shooting?
Is email an effective enough way to reach students in an emergency?
At this point, placing blame and pointing fingers won’t help the 32 victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, but the mistakes that were made have lead college campuses across the country to re-evaluate their alert systems.
New Jersey colleges and universities are no exception. Rutgers, the state’s largest university, has put in place a new mobile phone alert and Princeton has set in place a similar system, purchased just before the shooting.
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— by Ali Hanford
Ali is managing editor and a co-founder of GoOutJersey and lives in Essex County. She has lived in NJ her whole life.
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April 29th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Personally, I think a public address system would work out better. Everyone would hear it, including any perpetrators. It might scare them off or, at least let them know that everyone will be watching out for them. Maybe they could have a bullet-proof van drive around with the loudspeakers on the roof.
If the campus is really big they could have 2 or 3 vans; would be cheaper, too.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
How about stricter gun laws ?