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Grief Counseling, Campus Security, and Risk Management: From The Chronicle's Archives

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Following are links to previous articles from The Chronicle pertinent to the tragedy at Virginia Tech:

Grief Counseling and Campus Responses

'Giving them the help they need': The author of a new book on student suicide says colleges need to think about a lot more than liability (May 19, 2006)

More help for troubled students: New services try to strengthen campus mental-health programs and prevent suicides (December 5, 2003)

Are professors protected? (November 15, 2002)

For many students, September 11 changed everything (December 14, 2001)

College that serves New York's finest faces deaths in a "wartime" atmosphere (September 28, 2001)

On one campus: Shock, anger ... and resilience (September 21, 2001)

Impact analyzed on children who watched sniper attack (December 5, 1990)

Universities that have been targets view U. of Florida tragedies with horror and concern (September 12, 1990)

Campus Security

Opinion: The missing movement for gun control (October 20, 2006)

Gunman kills one, injures 19 in shooting spree on Canadian campus (September 22, 2006)

New 911 systems allow campuses to improve emergency services (December 17, 2004)

Colleges step up security measures in response to terror warning (February 28, 2003)

The deadly risk of giving an F: Murder of 3 professors by a failing student horrifies U. of Arizona (November 15, 2002)

A deadly shooting pierces 2 small colleges (February 8, 2002)

Colleges tighten security to guard against terrorism (October 19, 2001)

Opinion: Preparing for the moment when a student's rage turns to violence (August 13, 1999)

Opinion: An effective response to teenage crime is possible -- and cities are showing the way (May 7, 1999)

Weapons on campus? Officials warn that colleges are not immune from the scourge of handguns (March 9, 1994)

Campus-crime furor puts security officers in spotlight (September 2, 1992)

Risk Management and Disaster Planning

Point of View: Student suicide and colleges' liability (April 20, 2007)

After Katrina, colleges nationwide take a fresh look at disaster plans (October 14, 2005)

Opinion: Prepared to help when disaster strikes (September 9, 2005)

Background checks needed, expert says (May 13, 2005)

Opinion: When students kill themselves, colleges may get the blame (June 25, 2004)

Colleges' risk managers face a rising tide of litigation (November 16, 2001)