Better safe than sorry: campus shooting prep.ABOUT 375 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES have purchased either the faculty or student version of a new program aimed at teaching campus community members how to survive a shooting attack. The program's blatant title--Shots Fired on Campus: When Lightning Strikes--says it all. The odds of being involved in an "active shooter An active shooter is defined as "... an armed person who has used deadly physical force on other persons and continues to do so while having unrestricted access to additional victims" (El Paso County, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, Sheriff’s Office policy and procedure " situation are similar to those of being struck by lightning. Lightning does strike, however, and active shooter situations not only happen but are often catastrophic. Shots Fired is designed to empower students with knowledge and strategies for preventing, recognizing, and surviving an attack. The full program costs $1,495 and includes a DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , the video in Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. File format (for posting on an institution's intranet), an instructor guide, a student note-taker guide, and related PowerPoint presentations. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As one might imagine, administrators are being strategic about how they present the program's availability. In an e-mail alerting students, faculty, and staff to the video posting on the Southern Illinois University Southern Illinois University, main campus at Carbondale; state supported; coeducational; est. 1869, opened 1874 as a normal school, renamed 1947. It has a center for archaeological investigation and a fisheries research laboratory. There is also a campus at Edwardsville. , Edwardsville website, Greg Conroy, director of public affairs, says, "We made it clear we weren't trying to be alarmist a·larm·ist n. A person who needlessly alarms or attempts to alarm others, as by inventing or spreading false or exaggerated rumors of impending danger or catastrophe. , but we felt it was good information to have if something like this were ever to happen." Shots Fired has been marketed to members of URMIA Urmia (ûr`mēə), formerly Rezaiyeh, city (1991 pop. 357,399), capital of West Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran, near Lake Urmia. It is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit and tobacco are grown. (University Risk Management and Insurance Association), the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, and ASIS International, as well as directly to individual colleges and universities, says Randall Spivey, executive director of the Center for Persona[ Protection and Safety, creators of the program. For an evaluation copy, visit http://campus.shotsfireddvd.com/preview. |
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