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September 9, 2013 • Issue no. 06 Volume 26
Boise, Idaho
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Planning to respond to a shooter Campus Emergency Management plans how to respond to a gunman on campus The three levels of emergency and response priority
Level 1 Incidents could include broken water pipes, minor hazardous material spills or individual building loss of heat or electricity for several hours.
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Incidents like the Sandy Hook shooting this past year have prompted Boise State officials to amp up emergency measures on campus. Emergency Preparedness Manager Rob Littrell has worked to create extensive emergency planning should a shooting incident occur. When Littrell took office a few short years ago, Boise State’s emergency plan was bare bones. “I have been here two
years,” Littrell said. “When I first got here, we just had the one emergency response guide and it is very generic in nature.” In his time at Boise State, Littrell and colleagues have expanded on these basic guidelines mandated by the federal government under the Department of Homeland Security. “We have several mandates from the Cleary Act, The Department of Education, and Presidential Directives five and eight that were created after 9/11,” Littrell said. “All of those things must be taken
Level 2 Incidents could include violent or sexual assault on a single person, campus-wide power outages, minor fire confined to a room and not involving hazardous chemicals, potential employee exposure to ionizing radiation or biological-chemical agents, student, faculty, or staff fatalities due to natural causes or accident, etc. into consideration when you are writing your plan.” In response to Sandy Hook, the Obama administration recently released in-depth guidelines to colleges in order to better prepare themselves for hostile situations. “There has been a recent document that has come out that is kind of geared around active shooter type scenarios and it’s called the Guide for Developing High-Quality Emergency Plans for Institutions of Higher Education,” Littrell said. Littrell and security of-
ficials at Boise State are currently revising emergency planning to fit new standards included in the recently released government guidelines. “The good thing about using those references is that they standardize your plan,” Littrell said. “You could go to another university, and as an emergency responder, or police chief, it looks the same.” The current emergency operations plan encompasses the entirety of the university, but Littrell has worked with building coordinators on campus to
Level 3 Incidents could include violent assault involving mass fatalities/casualties, major earthquake, widespread flooding, pandemic contagious outbreak, threats or acts of terrorism, mass destruction across campus, etc.
be ready for a disaster. “Those building coordinators are required by university policy to have their emergency action plan,” Littrell said, “It is their plan on how they are going to safely evacuate their building and shelter employees.” Boise State offers email and text alerts in the event of a disaster. Students can opt-in to receive text alerts through BroncoAlert, the campus emergency service, by accessing the selfservice drop down menu in the student center on my.boisestate.
“We have only had about 25 percent of students on campus opt-in so far this year, so we want to make sure students know about it,” Littrell said. Littrell stresses the need for all individuals on campus to have a personal plan of action in the event of a shooting. “We are all responsible for individual preparedness,” Littrell said. “We can’t tell everyone specific actions about what to do; we want students, faculty and staff thinking about their own preparedness too.”
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For the first 73 and a half minutes of the 2013 season, redshirt senior quarterback Joe Southwick seemed lost. Throwing for just 152 yards and one interception against the Washington Huskies, the Boise State offense was in disarray, failing to score an offensive touchdown for the third time in two seasons. The loss in Seattle seemed to refocus the Broncos’ offense, as a week later they demolished the University of
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Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks, 63-14. Southwick and the Boise State offense received an outcry of negative feedback after their 32-point loss to the Huskies, and the week to prepare seemed to clear up things for the Broncos. “It’s just good to go out and execute,” Southwick said. “That’s a good feeling, putting up 63 points as an offense. But it’s back to work tomorrow.” Southwick was able to overcome a shaky start that included a fumble
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Michael Steen
That’s a good feeling, putting up 63 points on an offense. But it’s back to work tomorrow. —Joe Southwick
and a couple of near interceptions. The senior threw for 1725, 234 yards and a career high five touchdowns against the Skyhawks on Saturday afternoon. The 63-point total was the highest since the Broncos scored 63 at Colorado State in 2011. “I felt like we really just executed much better than last week,” sophomore wide receiver Shane WilliamsRhodes said. Southwick found Williams-Rhodes for two of his five touchdown passes on the day, as he distributed the ball well, hitting six different receivers on the day, and four different receivers for touchdowns. “Joe’s really come a long ways,” Williams-Rhodes said. “I feel like every week he’s
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Southwick bounces back as Boncos beat the Skyhawks
Southwick hands the ball off to RB Aaron Baltazar in Saturday’s win. just still getting better.” Southwick’s completion percentage through the first two games of the season is up to 64.6 percent. His completion percentage against Tennessee-Martin was a much stronger showing however, as he averaged 13.7 yards per pass, compared to just 6.1 against the Huskies on opening weekend.
“Sometimes it takes a minute to settle in; it’s always a work in progress,” head coach Chris Petersen said. “We learned a lot of things from the last game and we’ll learn a lot from this game.” Now as the Broncos head into Mountain West Conference play, Southwick will be put to the test as he will face a much tougher oppo-
nent than Tennessee-Martin each night. A win like the one on Saturday however, could be the confidence-boost needed. “It felt good,” redshirt senior quarterback Joe Southwick said. “but right back to work tomorrow, put the film on. We saw some things we need to clean up obviously, it’s still just our second game.”
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