April 18, 2008

Campus Security Begins With Caring

By MORTON M. SILVERMAN

A comprehensive program can help students who are at risk of doing violence, whether to themselves or others

Following the mass shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, I have repeatedly been asked, as a former director of the Student Counseling and Resource Service at the University of Chicago and clinical associate professor of psychiatry, two questions: "Could this have been prevented?" and "How can we ensure that it doesn't happen on our campus?"

I have

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