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Friday, Nov. 10, 2017 VOLUME LXXXXI ISSUE XVIV SINCE 1935 www.oswegonian.com
School safety, shootings discussed in presentation based on Columbine
Syracuse mayor election surprise Third party, independent candidate Ben Walsh wins office Jamie Aranoff Staff Writer news@oswegonian.com
Alexander Gault-Plate | The Oswegonian The presentation was based on information Schildkraut (top) learned from a symposium at Columbine High School.
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On Nov. 7 in the Marano Campus Center Auditorium, Jaclyn Schildkraut took the time to address and share her insights on the pressing matter of school safety. Schildkraut is an assistant professor in the department of public justice at Oswego State. In September, she had the opportunity to attend The Briefings, which is a national school safety symposium held at Columbine High School. This symposium is hosted by the “I Love U Guys” Foundation. This foundation was created by the parents of Emily Keyes, a student who died during a school shooting at Platte Canyon High School in Colorado in 2006. Among many things, the organization works to create standard response protocols. While Columbine created a catalytic change in active shooter first response, Schildkraut said there is much more that needs to be done in the categories of situational prevention and awareness. Schildkraut’s presentation, titled, “We Need To Talk About School Safety,” shared some of what she took away from The Briefings. She
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began by asking the audience, if a threat arose in the auditorium at that moment, who would have a plan? Not many hands rose. She went on to ask if anyone in the audience had observed their exits, if they have ever ran drills, or if they were aware of an assigned reunification location. Again, few raised their hands. She said that it is important to have a plan because, in the event of an emergency, we should not be asking what to do, we should know what to do. “There is no cookie-cutter solution,” said Sgt. A.J. DeAndrea, a presenter at The Briefings and one of the first SWAT officers on scene at the Columbine shooting. That is what makes threats such as mass shootings so difficult to anticipate. No environment is the same, so the actions that are taken in response to a threat are never the same because they depend on numerous variables. Schildkraut showed footage of Lt. Brian Murphy, who was the first responding officer at the Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 2012. It was unclear in the video, but Murphy was shot 15 times, with only two hitting his vest. “Rely on our training and not on our fear to guide us,” Schildkraut said.
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As election day cast across both Oswego County and Syracuse, residents took to the polls to exercise their right to vote. D Bus owner and local landlord, Lee B. Walker Jr., lost the election for Oswego County legislator for the 15th District. The Independence and Reform parties candidate Ben Walsh won for Syracuse mayor Tuesday night. Walker lost to Nathan Emmons, a local Republican candidate and business owner. Emmons said his goal in office is, among other things, to facilitate communication between the city and county governments. Emmons previously held the position of city counselor for the 3rd Ward of Oswego. In Syracuse, Walsh is not registered to a party but ran under the Independence, Reform and Upstate Jobs party lines. Walsh claimed the title of Syracuse mayor and will become the first party-unaffiliated candidate to win the position. Coming from a family of Republicans, Walsh himself has never registered with a political party. He had sought the Republican party nomina-
tion early in the election season, but as he was not registered, the Republican party decided not to endorse him. Walsh had, however, gained the support of various individual Republicans, Democrats and independents in the Syracuse political scene and among
Syracuse voters. C NYC e n t r a l . c o m re p o r t e d t h a t over 4,000 votes separated Walsh from the runner-up, Democrat Juanita Perez Williams.
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Photo provided by Ben Walsh for Mayor via Facebook Walsh ran as the candidate for three minor parties for Syracuse mayor, while he himself is not registered to any party.
Student Association hotly debates resolution Topics of senator privacy, sustainability, SA priorities discussed Kassadee Paulo Asst. News Editor kpaulo@oswegonian.com For three weeks, debate and personal grievances have plagued Oswego State’s Student Association before senators voted down a proposed resolution focusing on sustainability in dining hall facilities on campus. Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Omar van Reenen, with the collaboration of resident dining hall environment activist and teacher Lucas Grove, introduced Plastic Action for Commitment to Sustainability Affirmation, a resolution that addressed the increased use of plastic cups in Auxiliary Services dining locations. The resolution was submitted by Senator Catherine Millington and was sponsored by 179 student and staff members at Oswego State.
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Kassadee Paulo | The Oswegonian SA Senator Omar van Reenen (center) was the main author of the bill that calls for the removal of plastic cups from Oswego dining halls, nearly three weeks ago, that has sparked controversy in the SA senate.
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