{"id":413,"date":"2018-10-31T19:49:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=413"},"modified":"2018-11-01T03:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T03:58:46","slug":"hunter-public-safety-wants-students-to-learn-their-a-b-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2018\/10\/hunter-public-safety-wants-students-to-learn-their-a-b-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Public Safety wants students to learn their &#8220;A.B.Cs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 231px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-446\" src=\"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347-e1541044329449-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"active shooter protocol sign on door\" width=\"221\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347-e1541044329449-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347-e1541044329449-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347-e1541044329449-41x55.jpeg 41w, https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0347-e1541044329449-310x413.jpeg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Active Shooter Protocol signs behind classroom door. Photo by Maria Andrea Luna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colleges across the country are developing their own responses to the school shooting epidemic, and Hunter College is no different. Students entered the new school year to see \u201cactive shooter protocol\u201d signs all over campus and an email in their inboxes pleading for them to \u201cknow their ABCs: avoid, barricade and confront.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a safe urban campus, but we are always looking for new and additional strategies to build on that,\u201d said a Hunter spokesperson. \u201cIn an era where gun violence in schools has become a growing national concern, we redoubled efforts to strengthen campus safety in that area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cABCs\u201d that the Department of Public Safety issued in response to a possible shooter on campus is in line with the basic procedures all schools are dispensing to students. The three main courses of action are to run, hide and fight. Last spring, the office held a series of meetings with the Senate, the USG and student groups to gather feedback, according to the spokesperson. Although the policy was rolled out this semester, it has been in development since March.<\/p>\n<p>According to Public Safety, many classrooms now have new locks and shades for internal windows that are specifically designed to protect people in an active-shooter situation. The emergency notification system, CUNY Alert, has been consistently tested and is arranged to notify students of any danger. All the communication and procedures have been made available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunter.cuny.edu\/publicsafety\">Hunter Public Safety website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these efforts of Public Safety, some believe that a sign behind class room doors is insufficient. \u201cMore could be done to engage students with the protocol and explain to them how the school went about this process,\u201d said Saifeldeen Zihiri, the student welfare commissioner for the USG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The college has introduced \u201cactive shooter protocol\u201d signs all over campus, urging students to \u201cknow their ABCs: avoid, barricade and confront.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}