College violence increase on campuses

VIOLENCE, page 3 sacre, although they may not be well equipped to handle one.

Over the summer, colleges and universities around the country revised campus violence policies, started additional mental health training, installed and ac- tivated new alert systems and even ordered long-range rifles, according to the NY Times.

According to Burroughs, Cabrini is more prepared than they were before the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech.

“The major reason is awareness,” Burroughs said. “This awareness in- cludes more campus departments communicating better.”

Cabrini currently has a mass email system and a mass phone system. According to Burroughs, a text message alert system will soon be implemented into the system as well.

An increased number of public safety officers also patrol the campus in order to keep an eye on any potential problems.

“Currently, we have a full complement of Public Safety Officers, which means we have more on campus than previous years,” Burroughs said.

Burroughs is confident that the college is prepared to handle any emergency on campus and the college has looked at many different vendors that deal with emergency notification systems.

“Though any incident on a college campus, such as a shooting, is tragic the answer is yes, it is discussed how it would be handled,” Burroughs said.

“Our goal is to educate you, the student.”