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A look at KU's safety plans after the Ohio State attack
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▶ CHANDLER BOESE
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The Columbus campus of Ohio State University was shaken last Monday when a student, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, attacked a group of people with his car, then a butcher knife — eventually injuring 11 people. Artan himself was shot and killed by a campus police officer.
tering classrooms, students here also raised questions about the timing of campus alerts.
Despite the campus police's quick action it took less than ten minutes for Officer Alan Hurojko to stop Artan, according to the student newspaper, The Lantern - some students have raised concerns about the school's alerts system and emergency-preparedness training.
Here at the University, as the Kansan has previously reported, there has been a recent push to expand active-shooter training, especially for faculty and staff. After a 2014 incident involving a masked man en-
All of these things alerts, training and police response fall under the University's emergency-preparedness plans and systems.Not all of them are publicly available, but the Kansan breaks down the key parts of what is known about the University's emergency preparedness.
Associated Press Crime scene investigators collect evidence from the pavement as police respond to an attack on campus at Ohio State University on Nov. 28.
signed up for text messages, and faculty can opt in. Any University email should get alerts as well.
KU Alerts
The emergency notification system can be activated by the Office of Public Safety if there is an immediate threat to life or immediate action is required, according to the Emergency Management Plan and the alerts website.
The system includes text messaging, email, the public address system, web resources and more. Students who provide their phone number through Enroll and Pay are automatically
Response Plan
The University's 144page Emergency Management Plan lays out the chain of command in cases of emergency, including what criteria a situation must meet in order to be referred to the next level. This goes all the way from an incident commander to the head of the University's Emergency Operations Center.
In general, the amount of action that an emergency necessitates is based on how much of the University the situation threatens and what is being threatened (life, property, etc.).
The plan includes evacuation plans for all of the buildings with a significant amount of people in them regularly, though those plans are not shown in the public version of the policy.
Training
Both the alerts website and the plan offer tips for what the general public should do in case of emergencies like fires, tornadoes, bomb threats, active shooters and more.
Active shooter training has been a specific concern of the Faculty Senate, and campus administration is working on expanding
those resources.
Provost Neeli Bendapudi and the Public Safety Office say they are working on developing trainings that will be available to any member of the University, starting with faculty and staff. In mid-November, PSO hosted a training session at their office for any staff member who wished to learn.
University's News and Media Relations Director, Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, said that any group on campus has the ability to request general emergency training from the Public Safety Office.
Edited by Cody Schmitz
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Spencer Museum hosts exhibit to commemorate World AIDS Day
HAILEY DIXON
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The Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, in collaboration with the Spencer Museum of Art, is hosting an art exhibit to commemorate World AIDS Day, which was on Dec. 1.
"The exhibit, which has been running for about a week now, was put together with Spencer Museum to highlight the role that art played in the HIV/AIDS
crisis starting in the '80s, and how that art was used as a form of activism within the crisis," Chloe Secor, graduate assistant with the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, said.
The exhibit is called "Arts, AIDS, & Activism." The display is in the museum's Brosseau Center for Learning until Dec. 11. The display features many different artists' work.
Sydney Gaylord, multicultural coordinator of the
Spencer Museum, and Secor, who both helped organize the event, selected the pieces that would be best in the gallery.
"We have several really amazing pieces done by LGBTQ artists, either relating to AIDS, or by artists with HIV/AIDS," Secor said.
Much of the artwork was created as a way to release feelings associated with the negative stigma that individuals had towards people
that have HIV/AIDS.
We have several... pieces done by LGBTQ artists, either relating to AIDS, or by artists with HIV/AIDS."
Chloe Secor Graduate assistant Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity
"The experiences of individuals when AIDS first started emerging was really a devastation of a community," Gaylord said. "What's even more sad is that they were almost completely ignored by the government, and they were asking for help. A lot of people actually used art to help others process and understand and confront HIV and AIDS during this time."
A reception for the exhibit will be held at the museum on Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. The reception is open to the public, and light refreshments will be served, according to the Facebook event page.
"We are really just providing a space for people to remember those that we have lost so far, and to reflect on how far we've come as a society," Gaylord said.
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