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Recent mass shootings raise concerns on campus
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BY HANNAH BROADBENT and LOUISE TAYLOR
On Thursday, Oct. 1 a mass shooting took place at Umpqua Community College, leaving nine dead and nine wounded. On Friday, Oct. 9 at Northern Arizona University one was killed and three were injured in a mass shooting. Oct. 1st was the 274th day of the year. According to the Washington Post, the Oregon shooting was the 294th mass shooting of 2015. These shootings have sparked discussion about safety procedures on college campuses. “No one wants to talk about this but
unfortunately it’s a part of our reality,” Communicat ion instructor Barb Titus said. At the University of Minnesota-Duluth the official policy for dealing with an active threat on campus is the ‘Shelter in Place’ procedure. UMDPD Lieutenant Sean Huls said that shelter in place is more of a “systematic hide and protect” process rather than a ‘lockdown.’ In a lockdown you can essentially shut down a building and prevent anyone from getting in or out. “UMD is an expansive building. It’s interconnected. It’s not feasibly possible for us to lock down the campus,”
Huls said. Huls said there is a disconnect when students come to college right from high school. It is ingrained in them and their trainings from high school that the procedure is ‘lockdown’. Huls also understands that some faculty and staff are confused as well. “We had a gun incident last spring and there was some confusion when we sent out the text alert,” Huls said. “We train and think about this kind of stuff everyday in the police department. We assumed it was common knowledge.” Associate professor of Accounting Rodger Brannan
said he did not know the shelter in place policy very well but raised his concerns about communicating the active threat alerts to campus. “The text alert is good but if I’m talking I have my phone off or on vibrate,” Brannan said. “I’m paying attention to everyone I’m teaching.” Brannan is not the only professor with concerns. Titus has voiced her uncertainty as well, especially after the recent spike in mass shootings starting with Virginia Tech and most recently in Oregon. “I can’t help but think, what are the measures we can do to see GUNS on A3 ILLUSTRATION BY WIILL MADISON
Award winning journalist New parking shares war stories with meters advance UMD students awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for their coverage of the war. The winning photo is one that was most difficult to take. Shot amidst battle, the Pulitzer awarded picture starred on the front page of 68 newspapers nationally and even more worldwide. “I’m most proud of that picture, not because of the award it won, Pulitzer Prize winning photojouranlist Cheryl Diaz Meyer shares her experience but because I had on her time covering the war in Afghanistan. AISLING DOHENY/STATESMAN to find it within behalf of her work with an array of stories to BY AISLING DOHENY myself to take that war photography. share. Staff Reporter picture,” Meyer said. “This is the first “When we were with “I put my life on the Cheryl Diaz Meyer, war that was covered the Northern Alliance line, to me that photo one of UMD’s own, entirely digitally,” said at their camp, there represents a personal were no laws where we covered the war in Meyer. moment of growth.” Meyer, a female were,” Meyer said. “And Afghanistan and Iraq as Meyer has since shot one thing I learned in a photojournalist in the photojournalist, returned to Iraq several alongside the Second war reporting is that early 2000’s. times. Meyer volunteered Tank Battalion of the you have to know when She graduated Cum to do the expedition First Marine Division it’s time to get out.” Laude with a German Meyer discontinued and spent several in the Iraq War during major from UMD in weeks documenting a time when female her coverage of the war 1990. the carnage, emotion marines weren’t even in Afghanistan after the “I really discovered a and action alongside allowed on the front murder of a Swedish passion for photography journalist November groups like the Afghan lines of combat. and storytelling about “I didn’t initially 2001. She said she felt at Northern Alliance people later in my coland the Second Tank realize how forward I peace with her decision. lege career,” Meyer said. Meyer did continue to Battalion of the First would be,” she said. She went on to purShe recalled the good cover the war in Iraq. Marine Division. sue Photojournalism at On Thursday evening, and bad experiences all She told the war from Western Kentucky Unithe UMD Office of at once at her lecture the perspective of the versity. evening. Iraqis while in Baghdad Cultural Diversity and Thursday She now works as the Alworth Institute From facing extreme and even broke the the Visual Editor at welcomed renowned sandstorms to being rules by documenting McClatchy in D.C. and photojournalist Cheryl shot at and receiving Prisoners of War. teaches at the University Meyer and her Diaz Meyer to speak on excessive harassment, of Maryland. the photojournalist had colleague were
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Parking meters put in at the beginning of fall semester replacing 200 meters. BRAD EISCHENS/ STATESMAN
BY KATHERINE BURKE Statesman Corresponden
The University of M innesota-Duluth campus has been in the process of remodeling and updating many of its buildings and accommodations for the past few years, including some newly installed parking meters. According to the assistant director of Student Life Operations Lisa Hansen, 200 of the 320 parking meters on campus have been replaced with new and updated features. The new parking meters offer the ability to pay with the traditional coins, or the new option is to use a credit card as a form of payment. “They’re easier to use because I don’t always have cash on me,” student Sydney Carlson said. According to UMD
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Parking Services about 40 percent of people are using coins and roughly 60 percent of people are using the credit card feature for the new meters. These percentages have been collected from the new backup software that was included with the new parking meters. According to UMD Parking Services, no previous data had been collected due to the fact that the previous old meters did not include a backup software system. “This new backup software allows UMD Parking Services to collect data such as how often any given meter is being used, the number of transactions per meter and it also allows the student coin collectors to be notified by email when there is a coin-blockage,” Hansen said. The currency types have multiplied but
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