Article May 29, 2017 ISSUE

Campus safety and ‘Truth’s motto’

Stephen Senge

As a professor with an active class schedule, I took special note when national news reports described violence in college classrooms. I began to carefully consider my responsibility for the safety of the students. After several of these reports, campus security leaders issued various protocols regarding appropriate action in the event of a threat to classroom safety. These good-faith attempts to cover many possibilities contained numerous and specific directions.

My concern heightened when each communication closed with the reminder that the campus security force could not cover every location all the time. To this last observation, I silently responded that my answer lay in trusting God’s ever-presence.

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