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CAMPUS SAFETY
PARKING
How Fresno State is braced for danger – should it ever come to campus
Since when is parking a game of
BUMPER CARS?
By Michael Ford @MFordCollegian
Carnage. Bodies strewn about. Indelible images broadcasted on countless news channels. Every week it seems there is another shooting story in America. Many instances of gun shootings happen on or near school campuses. We can recall the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and too recently, the massacre of 58 people in Las Vegas. Just to name a couple. Can we ever be prepared for such a situation here? Fresno State has put together a comprehensive plan for students and faculty to follow. The plan is an active shooter response training program called Seconds to Survive, said Fresno State emergency operations manager Amy Luna. The training is primarily for police officers on campus, but there is a version that is open to all students on campus – free of charge. The training is conducted every other month during the semester. The next is Nov. 8 at Kremen Education Building, Room 140. A three step process is at the center of the training. Attendees are taught to follow the “Run, Hide, Fight” model. “What we teach at that program is how to plan and prepare because the most important thing is to really evaluate your environment. As your environment changes through the day, your plans your options are going to be different, so that’s really what we kind of focus on,” Luna said. The first part of the plan, “Run,” is arguably the most important, Luna said. She said that wherever students walk, they should always examine their surroundings and know where the nearest exits are. Finding the best ways to exit a dangerous situation is part of the evaluation process. The next step: knowing what to do after reaching an exit, Luna said. “Part of running is not just finding how to get out, but where to go after, she said. We run not just from danger but to safety. The next part of the training, “Hide,” is the step students and faculty should follow if running is not an option. According to this step, people should look for places that are as secluded and as safe as
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Illustration by Kong Thao
By Jessica Johnson @iamjesslj
D
ents, scratches and angry students – those are products of Fresno State’s parking lots. Lately, students have taken to Facebook to air their grievances over their experiences in the parking lots. The Fresno State Book Trade and Advice Facebook page is teeming with posts from students who say the bumper-car style of movement in the Fresno State parking lots has gone too far. “I know some students at [Fresno State] are bad drivers, but this is just a whole new level,” wrote Xiong Tsimnuj Peter, a kinesiology major, in a Facebook post on Oct. 4. He posted two photos of his blue car parked near the Student Recreation Center east of campus with a scrape – more than a foot long – near the driver side rear tire. Tsimnuj Peter claimed there was enough space to avoid having another car hit his. “I’m just dumbfounded,” he said. Fresno State Police Sgt. Terry Schneider said, on average, there are about two
incident reports per day about cars being hit in the parking lots. He said students whose cars are hit should make sure they are safe and the other vehicle passengers are secure. Schneider said insurance information should be exchanged and a report to campus police should be made online. He said
the insurance company will take over the claim by obtaining the police report. The parking lots at Fresno State are monitored by cameras, Schneider said, and the footage can sometimes work as evidence of parking lot incidents. However,
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Fresno State student Jen Lam