Discussion 2: Workplace Violence Introduction Violence has become so common in our society today. It has happened again and again all over the United States – a total of 7 students were killed (including the gunman) and 13 others injured when 22-year-old Elliot Rodgers went on a stabbing and shooting rampage just outside the main campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Who can forget the tragedy that occurred at Virginia Tech two years ago that left 33 people dead, many of who were students (for details refer to the NY Times article at www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16cnd-shooting.html). A recent commentary posted on May 23, 2010 in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Mariana A. Cotromanes was titled After a Campus Shooting, a New Reality (Jonathan Twingley for The Chronicle). An abstract from that commentary is shown below. “For the last two years, it's been difficult coming to terms with the shooting at Northern Illinois University. On Valentine's Day of 2008, a young man took a rifle onto the campus and opened fire in a lecture hall, killing five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide. A campus turned into a battlefield, students army-crawled across the floor for safety, and everyone couldn't believe it was happening.” http://chronicle.com/article/After-a-Campus-Shooting-a-New/65652/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en. Below is a chronological listing of some of the high profile campus shootings and killings in the United States during the last 10 years. 1. September 24, 2003: Rocori High School shooting. John Jason McLaughlin, aged 15, fatally shot two students at Rocori High School. A 17-year-old was killed immediately, and a 15-year-old died from his wounds on October 11, 2003. McLaughlin was sentenced to life in prison with the chance of parole in 2038. 2. March 21, 2005: Lake Indian Reservation, first killing his grandfather and grandfather's companion. He drove his grandfather's police vehicle to his high school, Red Lake Senior High School. Weise was armed with his grandfather's police weapons—a .40 caliber Glock 23 pistol, Ruger.22 caliber pistol, and a Remington 87012-gauge shotgun. He shot and killed five students, one teacher, one security guard, and then committed suicide. Seven other people were wounded in the shooting. 3. October 2, 2006: Amish school shooting: Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk truck driver, shot to death five Amish girls and wounded five others before killing himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart Township, Lancaster County.. 4. April 16, 2007: Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho, aged 23, shot and killed 32 students and faculty members, and wounded another 17 students and faculty members in two separate attacks on the same day, all before Cho committed suicide. 5. February 14, 2008: Northern Illinois University shooting: Steven Kazmierczak, 27, shot multiple people in a classroom of Northern Illinois University with a 12 gaugeRe.

1. Discussion 2: Workplace Violence
Introduction
Violence has become so common in our society today. It has
happened again and again all over the United States – a total of
7 students were killed (including the gunman) and 13 others
injured when 22-year-old Elliot Rodgers went on a stabbing and
shooting rampage just outside the main campus of the
University of California, Santa Barbara. Who can forget the
tragedy that occurred at Virginia Tech two years ago that left 33
people dead, many of who were students (for details refer to the
NY Times article at www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16cnd-
shooting.html).
A recent commentary posted on May 23, 2010 in The Chronicle
of Higher Education by Mariana A. Cotromanes was titled After
a Campus Shooting, a New Reality (Jonathan Twingley for The
Chronicle). An abstract from that commentary is shown below.
“For the last two years, it's been difficult coming to terms with
the shooting at Northern Illinois University. On Valentine's Day
of 2008, a young man took a rifle onto the campus and opened
fire in a lecture hall, killing five students and wounding 18
others before committing suicide. A campus turned into a
battlefield, students army-crawled across the floor for safety,
and everyone couldn't believe it was happening.”
http://chronicle.com/article/After-a-Campus-Shooting-a-
New/65652/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en.
Below is a chronological listing of some of the high profile
campus shootings and killings in the United States during the
last 10 years.
1. September 24, 2003: Rocori High School shooting. John
Jason McLaughlin, aged 15, fatally shot two students at Rocori
High School. A 17-year-old was killed immediately, and a 15-

2. year-old died from his wounds on October 11, 2003.
McLaughlin was sentenced to life in prison with the chance of
parole in 2038.
2. March 21, 2005: Lake Indian Reservation, first killing his
grandfather and grandfather's companion. He drove his
grandfather's police vehicle to his high school, Red Lake Senior
High School. Weise was armed with his grandfather's police
weapons—a .40 caliber Glock 23 pistol, Ruger.22 caliber pistol,
and a Remington 87012-gauge shotgun. He shot and killed five
students, one teacher, one security guard, and then committed
suicide. Seven other people were wounded in the shooting.
3. October 2, 2006: Amish school shooting: Charles Carl
Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk truck driver, shot to death five
Amish girls and wounded five others before killing himself in
an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart
Township, Lancaster County..
4. April 16, 2007: Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho,
aged 23, shot and killed 32 students and faculty members, and
wounded another 17 students and faculty members in two
separate attacks on the same day, all before Cho committed
suicide.
5. February 14, 2008: Northern Illinois University shooting:
Steven Kazmierczak, 27, shot multiple people in a classroom of
Northern Illinois University with a 12 gaugeRemington
Sportsman 48shotgun, killing five and injuring 21. He then
committed suicide. Kazmierczak was not a student at the
university, but had attended it the years prior to the attack.
6. May 18, 2009: 21-year-old Justin Cosby was shot in the
basement common room at Kirkland House, an undergraduate
resident hall of Harvard University. Cosby was taken to Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a gunshot wound in his

3. abdomen, and died the next day. Four days later, 20-year-old
Jabrai Jordon Copney, turned himself in for the murder of
Cosby.
7. February 12, 2010: 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville
shooting: Amy Bishop Anderson, a biologyprofessor, shot and
killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others during a
faculty meeting. In September 2012, she was sentenced to a life
sentence without the possibility of parole, and is serving her
sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.
8. January 5, 2011: At Millard South High School, student
Robert Butler Jr., 18, shot and killed Assistant Principal Dr.
Vicki Kaspar, and wounded Principal Curtis Case. Butler then
opened fire indiscriminately in the front office area, causing the
school nurse to be injured by gunshot debris. Butler drove to a
parking lot and then fatally shot himself.
9. April 7, 2012: Oikos University shooting: One Goh is
accused of shooting to death seven students and wounding three
others in a classroom at Oikos University, a small Christian
college. The gunman told the students in the classroom to line
up against the wall, and exclaimed "I'm going to kill you all!"
before firing the gun at them. He fled the scene, stealing a
victim's car, and was apprehended hours later in a nearby
location. The weapon used was a .45 caliber handgun. Goh is
charged with seven counts of murder and is believed by his
psychiatrist to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.
10. December 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people
and himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He first
killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns
and driving to the school. Lanza brought four guns with him; A
Bushmaster .223 caliber XM15-E2S rifle, a Glock 10mm
handgun, a Sig-Sauer P226 9mm handgun, and an Izhmash
Saiga-12 12 gauge shotgun which was later found in the trunk

4. of the car and not used in the shootings.[367] During the attack,
20 first-grade children aged six and seven were killed, along
with six adults, including four teachers, the principal, and the
school psychologist. Two others were injured. Lanza used the
Bushmaster .223 caliber rifle against all of the victims at the
school.
11. January 15, 2013: Two people were shot and killed and a
third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard
Community and Technical College. The third victim, 12-year-
old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day. 21-year-
old Dalton Lee Stidham was arrested and charged with three
counts of murder.
12. June 7, 2013: 2013 Santa Monica shooting: Six people,
including the shooter died and four others were wounded at or
near the campus of Santa Monica College when a lone gunman
opened fire on the school campus library after shooting at
several cars and a city bus at separate crime scenes. The
gunman, John Zawahri, was fatally wounded by responding
police officers. Among the dead were the shooter's father and
brother, both of whom died inside a house that was set on fire a
mile or so from the Santa Monica College campus.
13. May 23, 2014: 2014 Isla Vista shootings. 22-year-old Elliot
Rodgers went on a stabbing and shooting rampage just outside
the main campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Since some campus buildings were within the route of the
shootings, this troublesome school shooting event includes the
injuries of 13 and the loss of lives of 6 young adults in addition
to the shooter.
At WKU, we are not immune to campus violence. For those
students who were here on October 22, 2008, we survived an
apparent campus shooting scare – an excerpt is shown below in
this head line

5. (www.associatedcontent.com/article/1134597/wku_shootings).
WKU shooting scare causes campus lockdown
“The Western Kentucky University community is breathing a
sigh of relief, after reports of four shooters on the WKU south
campus and shots fired on the main campus put the university
on lockdown for several hours Wednesday afternoon."
As a student, you must be aware that Western Kentucky
University is committed to caring for your intellectual, social,
emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. When a national
or world tragedy occurs, faculty members often express the wish
to help students effectively deal with the aftermath. The 2009
Campus Security Report by WKU Police is posted at
TopSCHOLAR.(http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc ua
records/7)
At the national level, The Higher Education Opportunity Act
(Public Law 110-315) (HEOA) was enacted on August 14, 2008.
This law reauthorizes and extends the Higher Education Act of
1965, as amended. The Higher Education Act (HEA) provides
the statutory authority for most of the programs and activities
administered or conducted by the Office of Postsecondary
Education, including requirements related to campus security
and safety.
Parents and students can now use the Internet to review campus
crime statistics for colleges and university campuses online. For
more information, visit the following website:
http://ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/campus.html#data
For more information on Campus Safety and Security and to
review the 2012 Annual Campus Crime Awareness and Campus
Security Report (the most current that I could find), please visit
the following websites: http://ope.ed.gov/security/ and
http://www.wku.edu/police/documents/2012annualcampussecuri
tyandfirereporting.pdf
Discussion Questions:
1. Have you been affected by a school or work-related violence

6. of any kind? Briefly discuss the nature of the violence and how
you survived or dealt with it.
2. In your opinion, what are some of the things that college and
university administrators can do to improve campus safety and
prevent or reduce violence? What can you (as a student or group
of students) do to prevent a repeat of these senseless killings at
our higher institutions?
3. What factors motivated or triggered the attacks? How did
target selection compare with the actual victims?
4. What pre-incident behaviors were directed toward the
targets?
5. How can universities and colleges improve their
understanding of what leads an offender to target random
individuals during a violent crime?
Discussion 2:
Workplace
Violence
Introduction
Violence has become so common in our society today. It has
happened again and again all over
the United States
–
a total of 7 students were killed (including the gunman) and 13
others injured
when
22
-
year
-

7. old Elliot Rodgers went on a stabbing and shooting rampage just
outside the main
campus of the
University of
California, Santa Barbara
. Who can forget the tragedy that occurred
at Virginia Tech two years ago that left 33 people dead, many of
who were students (
for details
refer to the NY Times article at
www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16cnd
-
shooting
.html
).
A rece
nt c
ommentary
posted on May 23, 2010 in The Chronicle of Higher Education b
y Mariana
A. Cotromanes
was titled
After a Campus Shooting, a New Reality
(Jonathan Twingley for
The Chronicle)
. An abstract from that commentary is shown below.
“
For the last two years, it's been difficult coming to terms with
the shooting at Northern Illinois
University. On Valentine's Day of 2008, a young man took a
rifle onto the campus and opened
fire in a lecture hall, killing five students and wounding 18 oth

8. ers before committing suicide. A
campus turned into a battlefield, students army
-
crawled across the floor for safety, and everyone
couldn't believe it was happening.
”
http://chronicle.com/article/After
-
a
-
Campus
-
Shooting
-
a
-
New/65652/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
.
Below is a chronological listing of some of the high profile
campus shootings and killings in the
United States
during the
last 10
years.
1.
September 24, 2003:
Rocori High School shooting
. John Jason McLaughlin, aged 15,
fatally shot two students at
Rocori High School
. A 17
-

9. year
-
old was killed immediately,
and a 15
-
year
-
old died from his wounds on October 11, 2003. McLaughlin was
sentenced
to life in prison with the chance of parole in 203
8.
2.
March 21, 2005:
Lake Indian Reservation
, first killing his grandfather and grandfather's
companion. He drove his grandfather's police vehicle to h
is high school,
Red Lake Senior
High School
. Weise was armed with his grandfather's police weapons
—
a
.40
caliber
Glock 23
pistol,
Ruger
.22
caliber pistol, and

10. a
Remington 870
12
-
gauge shotgun
. He
shot and killed five students, one teacher, one security
guard, and then committed suicide.
Seven other people were wounded in the shooting.
3.
October 2, 2006:
Amish school shooting
: Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32
-
year
-
ol
d milk
truck driver, shot to death five
Amish
girls and wounded five others before killing
himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in
Bart Township, Lancaster
County..
Discussion 2: Workplace Violence
Introduction
Violence has become so common in our society today. It has

11. happened again and again all over
the United States – a total of 7 students were killed (including
the gunman) and 13 others injured
when 22-year-old Elliot Rodgers went on a stabbing and
shooting rampage just outside the main
campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Who can
forget the tragedy that occurred
at Virginia Tech two years ago that left 33 people dead, many of
who were students (for details
refer to the NY Times article at
www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/16cnd-shooting.html).
A recent commentary posted on May 23, 2010 in The Chronicle
of Higher Education by Mariana
A. Cotromanes was titled After a Campus Shooting, a New
Reality (Jonathan Twingley for
The Chronicle). An abstract from that commentary is shown
below.
“For the last two years, it's been difficult coming to terms with
the shooting at Northern Illinois
University. On Valentine's Day of 2008, a young man took a
rifle onto the campus and opened
fire in a lecture hall, killing five students and wounding 18
others before committing suicide. A
campus turned into a battlefield, students army-crawled across
the floor for safety, and everyone
couldn't believe it was happening.”
http://chronicle.com/article/After-a-Campus-Shooting-a-
New/65652/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en.
Below is a chronological listing of some of the high profile
campus shootings and killings in the
United States during the last 10 years.
1. September 24, 2003: Rocori High School shooting. John
Jason McLaughlin, aged 15,
fatally shot two students at Rocori High School. A 17-year-old
was killed immediately,

12. and a 15-year-old died from his wounds on October 11, 2003.
McLaughlin was sentenced
to life in prison with the chance of parole in 2038.
2. March 21, 2005: Lake Indian Reservation, first killing his
grandfather and grandfather's
companion. He drove his grandfather's police vehicle to his high
school, Red Lake Senior
High School. Weise was armed with his grandfather's police
weapons—a .40 caliber
Glock 23 pistol, Ruger .22 caliber pistol, and a Remington 870
12-gauge shotgun. He
shot and killed five students, one teacher, one security guard,
and then committed suicide.
Seven other people were wounded in the shooting.
3. October 2, 2006: Amish school shooting: Charles Carl
Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk
truck driver, shot to death five Amish girls and wounded five
others before killing
himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in
Bart Township, Lancaster
County..
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