Wednesday, April 22, 2009
What Has Higher Education Learned from Virginia Tech and NIU
Traditionally colleges, universities and community colleges have relied upon the mental health community or local police to keep campuses safe, yet one of the key shortcomings has been the lack of a system that involves faculty, student affairs, counselors, parents and students in the identification and communication process. Recently, a small percentage of colleges, universities and community colleges are forming Behavioral Intervention Teams with representatives from all these constituencies. However, most in higher education have merely changed their safety/security policies, procedures, or surveillance systems; they have yet to incorporate Behavioral Intervention Teams. Colleges, universities and community colleges continue spending excessive amounts of money to put in place many of the physical security options. Sadly, they are reactionary only and do little to prevent aggression because they are designed exclusively to react to existing conflict, threat and violence. These colleges, universities and community colleges reflect a national blindspot, which prefers hardening targets through enhanced security versus preventing violence with efforts directed at aggressors. Security gets all the focus and money, but this only makes us feel safe, rather than to actually make us safer. Learn more, read my white paper that describes the problem and its solution: http://www.aggressionmanagement.com/Higher_Education/
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Thank you Esha, I will have a look.
It's been a long known fact that huge military budgets are deployed to make war look hip and sexy on television, in the cinema, in the game industry etc etc. Things like the military interfering in episodes of Lassie.(cant find a link sorry) Hollywood isn't called the dream machine for no reason. Rambo didn't exactly illustrate the genocide in Vietnam, non of the hundreds of Vietnam films illustrate the actual war. It would simply be to disgusting to show. Military propaganda touches all walks of live.
"In 1943, millions were fighting for their lives and people drew a lot of inspiration from the story of the dog that overcame hardship and came home. It was a metaphor that offered hope in difficult times." - Ace Collins, the official Lassie biographer [link]The assertion that killing of or shooting at "things" is not at all harmful contradicts other standards that dictate how kids are not suppose to see a nipple. It isn't even a reproductive organ. Effect: People go insane over breast feeding. Non of this was their own idea.
Games, while killing is promoted are not suppose to have so called "gore" in them. When "things" get shot or slaughtered in some other fashion they drop to the ground, they don't move or make sounds then the body dissolves in thin air. This is a clear and obvious conditioning agenda.
"Hollywood pushes violent movies, games on kids" - FTC [link]Furthermore,The Taliban is a network of children(say 12-18) teaching other children (say 5-12) to blow themselves up in order to kill "non-believes". This self propagating "education" cycle originally created by the CIA has gone way out of control by vast understatement.
"Teach a man how to fish and he will fish like there is no tomorrow."There is more still,As (the otherwise very controversial) Terence McKenna notes,in China people are very aware systems are not closed boxes but every effect has it's cause.It makes me want to scream at you where you suggest the problem can be fixed inside the school as if it is a system detached from the rest of the galaxy. I will however not scream because this wouldn't have the desired effect. :-)
When Bush the elder refused to allow European advisers to help with the Iraq project a journalist asked what kind of advise the US military was missing out on. One such expert explained that putting soldiers in full battle gear and a tank in front of someones house would eventually cause this person to attack those soldiers. It might take one year, it might take 10 years eventually they will be fed up with it. A peace force should have light arms and be dressed appropriately if at all recognizable.
Today we see the road side bombs in Iraq scale perfectly with the size of the military vehicles. More armor only makes the bombs bigger. To deny this would be to deny the cold war.
"Miraculously" the security guards[sic] in schools wearing full battle gear, tazers, grenades and machine guns don't actually contribute to safety. Kids will wonder what the adults are so afraid of and test this authority and find a way around it. It doesn't prevent violence in stead it introduces the concept.
As George Orwell noted "freedom is slavery", woman's liberation aka wage slavery rather than raising the kids creates a loveless and careless upbringing where the Tee Vee and the Pacman console make up the reality kids grow up in.
I suggest you see "Cartoons are Evil"[1][2][3][4][5], it is a some what hilarious documentary but those Christians are definitely on to something. I hope it diffuses some of the anger accumulated after reading the above. :-)
Thanks for your comment, I hope this helps, good luck and enjoy.
-gaby de wilde
Murder kill for occasion, school shooter have their subjective justifications. The society has to unfold the enigma of WHY they do that. Paintball, Weapons, FPS, or mental disorder - falls to short for an explanation.
Quest to understand school shootings
Thank you for your comment. These are the very reasons why we develop the means to identify and measure emerging aggression versus trying to determine all the reasons why. According to the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education’s report on Targeted Violence in Schools, there is a significant difference between “profiling” and identifying and measuring emerging aggression; “The use of profiles is not effective either for identifying students who may pose a risk for targeted violence at school or – once a student has been identified – for assessing the risk that a particular student may pose for school-based targeted violence.” It continues; “An inquiry should focus instead on a student’s behaviors and communications to determine if the student appears to be planning or preparing for an attack.” We can and must assess objective, culturally neutral, identifiable criteria of emerging aggression.
It is not practical to examine and attempt to quantify all the reason why. We know that when the mind perceives the body responds with body language and behavior that we can identify and measure. This is where we are focusing our efforts. Incidentally we have opened a new blog: http:/Blog.AggressionManagement.com
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