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By Olivia Massucci<\/a> · Staff Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grove City College\u2019s Student Life & Learning and Incident Management Team (IMT) are leading a series of training sessions on the run, hide, fight model, a framework for surviving an active shooter incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sessions are one hour long and held at various times in rooms in Staley Hall of Arts and Letters, according to a March 3 email to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac Cooke, resident director of Hopeman Hall and one of the training facilitators, said the sessions are designed to empower students to respond quickly and confidently in unsure situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t giving a plan, but something that applies to the classrooms in HAL, STEM, their residence halls, that can just be \u2018OK, something\u2019s happening, here\u2019s what I can do. I don\u2019t have to process, I can just act,\u2019\u201d Cooke said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The training initiative grew out of the after-action assessment of the swatting incident in September, according to Mandie McCreadie, director of Student Care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnytime anything happens, folks will come together. \u2026 (They will be) assessing what went right, what went wrong, what could\u2019ve been done better,\u201d McCreadie said. \u201cNone of us are perfect all the time, but the difference is what we learn from that and how we assess and engage and create actions to be better in (the) future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooke noted that the swatting incident already showed that having some trained students makes a difference in emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know for me, in the after action when we were debriefing, seeing that there were some students, RAs especially for me in Hopeman because we were right next to the library, RAs like Noah Byun, who absolutely did everything right and calmed down the situation, took care of people, because they\u2019ve gone through the training,\u201d Cooke said. \u201cIf it had been a real situation, it would\u2019ve saved a lot of lives in that area. Now we\u2019ve prepared more people to step into that space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCreadie and Cooke emphasized the importance of breaking students\u2019 mindsets that violent incidents will never affect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think for me it\u2019s what I said, not living in a mindset of \u2018it\u2019ll never happen to me.\u2019 I\u2019ve actually heard those words out of students\u2019 mouths, and that\u2019s just not a very safe or smart way to operate. We live in a fallen world, and all of us are susceptible to the darkness that operates in the world we live in,\u201d McCreadie said. \u201cWe have no one plan that\u2019s going to say you\u2019re all going to survive an active shooter event if one were to truly come to our campus, but what can we do to prepare our students to give them the best shot that they have?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll those folks at Columbine and Virginia Tech and Illinois; they thought it would never happen to them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sessions also encouraged students to sign up for Omnilert, the college\u2019s emergency notification system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf our students don\u2019t have instructions, then we have 2,100 variables meandering around campus either actively engaged in the midst of it, or completely unaware,\u201d McCreadie said. \u201cThe more students and faculty and staff that are getting those alerts, the more folks that are all on the same page, getting the same instructions. It\u2019s official notices, and that is of such utmost importance in an emergency situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooke insisted that the time attending one of the sessions is well worth it, noting that the tragedies of past shootings make the sessions lifesaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know what happens when you\u2019re ill-prepared. It\u2019s not good,\u201d Cooke said. \u201cSo why not be prepared, even if it\u2019s never going to happen? That\u2019s the impetus of pushing this a little more. We\u2019ve been targeted once. OK. That wasn\u2019t an actual real situation, but why not be prepared now? Lose an hour of time and potentially save your life. That seems like a pretty great deal to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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