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Article: How Safe Are Our College Campuses?(Feature)
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- Security Dealer & Integrator
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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How Safe Are Our College Campuses?
By Ileene-Marie Mooney
One year and another incident later...
When this article was first slated for these pages, the Virginia Tech incident was a fairly recent memory and this editorial was designed to chronicle the tragedy at its one year point. However since then there have been other campus crime incidents, most notably the shooting of students at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Ill.
It's become clearer that not only is basic security a necessity, i.e., surveillance, access control, intrusion detection and fire alarms, but escape plans and emergency evacuation and notification is ...