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After Virginia Tech, campuses re-evaluate safety
 Within
hours of the Virginia Tech shootings last April,
UW-Green Bay began reviewing its own safety procedures.
Officials found seemingly
sensible, time-tested policies for security and
emergency preparedness but, also, potential blind
spots. As Chancellor Bruce Shepard recalls, “The
Virginia Tech tragedy showed that we must be attentive
and open to new ideas.”
Shepard became a leader in
addressing those ideas when Gov. Jim Doyle named
him co-chair of Wisconsin’s task force on
campus safety, which spent much of 2007 analyzing
best practices. The UW System also ordered complete
campus-by-campus security updates.
At UW-Green Bay, the progress
report details post-Virginia Tech improvements
in crisis communication and planning, and also
a pre-emptive push to make students and others
better aware of mental health services and depression-screening
tools.
Additionally, the University
held an “active shooter” training exercise
with campus and community police (right); shared
information at parent and new-freshman orientations;
and distributed a checklist for dealing with potential
or unfolding acts of violence. A summary of UW-Green
Bay’s campus security initiatives may be
viewed online at www.uwgb.edu/chancellor/reports/07security.htm.
New
WGBW revives 'old' tradition
In October, the call letters WGBW were heard by
listeners for the first time in 18 years at UW-Green
Bay with the start of student radio WGBW, an Internet-based,
audio-streaming station. The all-talk format reflects
the fact music-licensing fees were beyond the modest
start-up budget, but hopes are high to expand the
programming array soon. You can give a listen at
www.uwgb.edu/wgbw/.
The original WGBW at 91.5 FM was a progressive,
over-the-air student station with a 30-mile broadcast
radius and a campus cult following from 1974 to
1989.
A thousand points of light
Members of the UW-Green Bay community purchased more than 1,030 compact fluorescent light bulbs last fall during a communitywide promotional campaign. The University took part in the Greater Green Bay CFL Challenge, which had major local employers encouraging employees to sign up to purchase Energy Star-qualified bulbs at a discount for home use.
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