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Tag: Mass Shootings
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Advancing The Work After The News Is No Longer Breaking
For days following the death of George Floyd, I fell silent. I wanted to speak using my social media platforms, but I was speechless. I was asked to post, respond, write a note to students, apply hashtags to my name, and join in a moment of silence, among other initiatives. However, I knew the death of George Floyd could not encompass the same temporary and emotional responses as so many other Black males who lost their lives at the hands of a system designed to honor and protect citizens of this nation.
July 22, 2020
Opinion
Secret Service Highlights Importance of Student Threat Assessment
We cannot prevent every incident through threat assessment, but it is important that we reach students as soon as concerns are identified. We must train key school personnel on identifying behaviors of concern as much as we train on behaviors that should not be of concern.
November 18, 2019
News Roundup
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Students Criticize Response to Shooting Threat
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Residence Hall Association, a student advocacy group, sent a letter to President Dr. Marta Meana criticizing how the administration handled a shooting threat. When a note was discovered on a bathroom wall – threatening a shooting on Oct. 16 with derogatory statements about Bernie Sanders supporters and African-Americans – […]
October 20, 2019
Opinion
Is Your School a True Sanctuary?
When I drive through a campus district, or even a whole town or city where the university is a major institution, I always get that special feeling, that sense of comfort. They are sanctuaries, to some degree, at least to me. And if they aren’t for everyone, maybe you should ask your college administration.
August 14, 2019
Opinion
On the Meaning of Survival
The deadliest school shooting in modern history happened before colleges and universities instituted emergency alert systems, and before the pervasiveness of social media allowed for instantaneous notifications. Many students continued to move between classes unaware of what was unfolding around them.
March 28, 2019
Opinion
How Researchers of Color are Left out of the Gun Violence Conversation in Media and Academia
Although the frequency of mass shootings has increased, and the constant media coverage makes it seem that it is now a more common form of gun violence, it only makes up a sliver of gun deaths in the U.S. Homicide and suicide make up a majority of gun deaths.
December 20, 2018
Opinion
A Memorial for the War in America
When I think of graduation time, I don’t think about my own. Nor do I think of my kids. I think about my cousin Stephen, who came to the U.S. an immigrant when he was 8 years old from the Philippines. He received his B. A. in International Relations from San Francisco State University in 2014. But there is a digression. The degree came a few weeks after his violent gun death.
May 25, 2018
Latest News
Waffle House Shooting Hero, TSU Alum, Presents Funds Raised for Victims
James Shaw Jr., hailed a hero for toppling a gunman who killed four people and injured others at a Waffle House in Tennessee., was recognized by his alma mater, Tennessee State University, at a recent event where he presented funds he had raised for victims.
May 16, 2018
News Roundup
Charles Steger, Former Virginia Tech President, Dies at 70
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Tech President Charles Steger Jr., who led the institution through a period of great change and faced both criticism and praise for his leadership during a 2007 mass shooting, has died, the university announced Monday. He was 70. Steger, a Virginia Tech graduate who spent most of his professional […]
May 8, 2018
Students
Students Around U.S. Stage Huge Walkout Against Gun Violence
They bowed their heads in honor of the dead. They carried signs with messages such as “Never again” and “Am I next?” They railed against the National Rifle Association and the politicians who support it. And over and over, they repeated the message: Enough is enough. In a wave of protests one historian called the […]
March 15, 2018
Opinion
In Defense of Youth Organizing
The late Coretta Scott King once said, “Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it with every generation.” With every generation, movements for political change have been buttressed by the energy, talent, resolve, creativity and dedication of young people.
February 25, 2018
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Advocates for Gun Control Call for Massive March in D.C.
In the wake of the gun massacre in Orlando, several civil rights and labor organizations are calling for a massive march in the nation’s capital later this summer to call attention to the issue of gun control.
June 28, 2016
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