Schools handle these acts by increasing security, searching students, constructing metal detectors, implementing violence hotlines, counseling students, being alert to students' violent tendencies, and being aware of differences.
Behaviors can include threats, insults, criticism, name calling, belittling, ignoring, humiliating, mind games, intimidating, isolating from friends and family, controlling and monitoring whereabouts, or destroying sentimental items belonging to a dating partner.
College campuses should begin to engage in discussions on prevention methods and prepare ways to react to this new level of violence.
The counselor can put together these pieces and understand the risks the hostile student provides on the campus.
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Consider hiring students as security officers.
The massacre was finally ended when three police and a civilian surprised Whitman and shot him to death.
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