The right to protect and defend on campus
Calvin College, a Christian Liberal Arts college located in West Michigan is one of the first colleges to allow their security personnel to carry weapons in the performance of their duties nationwide. (http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/04/calvin_college_safety_staff_ma.h...)
"Attention students, we are going on lockdown mode, please go inside the nearest class room and stay indoors, lock all doors and windows"...this is what our school heard today after school. There was a lot of commotion and students thought it was a joke, but we still stayed indoors.
Every time the news comes on it seems like there has been another tragic school shooting. The frequency in which these events have been occurring is nothing short of terrifying. Who’s next? Should I fear for my life every time I enter a classroom? Are we truly safe anywhere?
Robert Greer uttered these words to the Tribune shortly after a shooting at the Northern Illinois University yesterday; "I'm not mad, I'm just sad, and I know that right now what I need to do is comfort my wife."
Yesterday morning, as I was cramming for my upcoming Animal Biology exam, the fire alarms at the university went off, first the siren rang, the flashers flashed and then in an authoritative male voice, I was told that 'AN EMERGENCY HAS OCCURRED PLEASE EXIT THE BUILDING. DO NOT TAKE THE ELEVATORS.'
After the tragic events at VT, you think that every college would have made new and better plans to inform students of an emergency. I go to middle tennesee state university and our first day of school was this past monday. The first day of school there was an e-mail sent to multiple staff that said there were multiple bombs throughout the campus.
I published something like this earlier today on Old Lady Syndrome, but it's important enough to note here, too.
