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IMPROVING SAFETY ON CAMPUSES
Trustees may
have acted
unilaterally
but it was the
right thing
to do
T
wo district trustees justified took place.
their decision to arm camDespite the protests and obpus safety officers, saying
vious risks of interacting with
it was grounded on sound
armed personnel, the trustees’
research, in an opinion published decision was a step towards imin the Orange County Register
proving safety on campus. With
earlier this month.
the number of recent school
In February, the Board of
shootings, students no longer feel
Trustees unanimously, and some safe with just active shooter drills.
would say unilaterally, voted to
Armed guards are necessary.
arm campus safety officers, citing When we rely on the Santa Ana
the recent wave of mass shootPolice Department, response
ings at schools as a leading factor times are between five and 10
in their decision.
minutes due to the urban setting
Contrary to the claims Trustees surrounding the campus.
Phillip Yarbrough and Claudia
In the case of the Umpqua
Alvarez made in their opinion
Community College shooter,
piece, Santa Ana College students it was local police who had to
were a small part of the decision. respond to the attack and despite
The students’ concerns were in- arriving on the scene quickly, the
deed heard — at a town hall that shooter killed nine people before
occurred months after the vote
he could be stopped.
The galaxy is not far away anymore.
Ten years after what everyone believed was to be the last episode, Disney has given the Star Wars franchise
the Marvel treatment with the addition
of three new movies.
The release of the first full-length
trailer for The Force Awakens has forced
ticketing websites to crash with the
sheer amount of sales.
But the biggest news for the rebooted space epic is the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII.
The hashtag started trending on Twitter after the official poster for the movie was released, featuring John Boyega,
Daisy Ridley and Oscar Isaac. Boyega is
black and Isaac is Guatemalan.
Two non-white males and a female
as the lead roles in the film angered
twitter users, who feared an insidious
anti-white conspira