Teachers’ unions call active shooter drills ineffective
“Traumatizing students as we work to keep students safe from gun violence is not the answer.”
“Traumatizing students as we work to keep students safe from gun violence is not the answer.”
An Ithaca College student reported a suspicious person wandering near the Athletics and Events Center at approximately 6 p.m.
A former Cornell student named Maximilian Reynolds was arrested last week after it was found he was stockpiling an unassembled AR-15 rifle, a gas mask, a homemade silencer and ammunition for various firearms and high-capacity rifle magazines in his Collegetown apartment.
The officers found weapons, ammunition, equipment commonly used to assemble destructive devices, medical trauma supplies, food rations and fireworks.
Chris Holmes, associate professor in the Department of English, teaches a freshman seminar on guns and gun violence.
Although Public Safety is well prepared for emergency situations such as an active shooter on campus, faculty and staff are not as well prepared as they can be.