Aside from the tragic death of the professor the most disturbing thing is that the UCLA student paper is reporting that some professors ignored the lockdown and kept lecturing rather than focusing on securing their rooms. Despite protocols in place to the absolute contrary!
The fact that many doors couldn’t lock.
There are steps to take (pushing furniture in front of the door, etc) even if it doesn’t lock.
Good point @dadoftwingirls. The students had to jerryrig barricades.
What is the protocol? UCLA has a huge campys. Was there a campus wide announcement of an emergency?
UCLA’s active shooter protocol is at https://www.emergency.ucla.edu/copy_of_how-to-lockdown .
Why they don’t publish the name of the student?
Maybe they haven’t been able to reach members of his family.
As I noted in the other thread, I don’t see why it’s so mission-critical for us to have these names immediately. It’s rubbernecking. Waiting a day or two for the name is not a big deal.
I think that if what the newspaper is reporting is true UCLA needs to have some sort of action taken against these instructors. Probably a written reminder of the protocol and a statement that failure to follow it in the future ( hopefully there will never even be an opportunity however ) will result in disciplinary action.
Again-- were these professors even aware of the emergency? Was there a campus wide alert?
Yes @GMTplus7. There was a campus wide alert sent. It said “Lockdown Now!”
They have a messaging system that goes out to everybody - all students and faculty . Even if the professor didn’t check his phone, every single student in the class would’ve gotten the message on their phones. Our D called to let us know about the alert before the shooting even hit the news.
It’s a solid emergency notification protocol. This is not a tiny little university which has never considered these things or never experienced an emergency before.
For the folks wondering at the delay in releasing names; the information is delayed until family is notified and police follow whatever leads they need to before the information is made public. I’m sure we’d all agree it’s the best protocol if we were personally affected.
He’s been named now.
I used to work at a university. Everyone on the faculty/staff was required to attend a four-hour “dealing with an active shooter” training course. At the time I took it didn’t seem like a real possibility, but these kinds of events make me understand why this was put in place. I agree that it’s unfathomable that prof’s continued to lecture.
Maybe prod’s thought it was a hoax. We used to get bomb threat often there was a tough exam. Finally, the supervisor in charge called off evacuation and it stopped.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mainak-sarkar-ucla-20160602-snap-story.html
Who was sick here?
I always have my cell phone off while I am lecturing. Students are supposed to have theirs off as well. I taught a large class in the spring (100+) and never noticed a student responding to a text or receiving a call.
My colleges have asked for notification to faculty who are lecturing, in the event of a lockdown. There are computers in the large lecture halls to which messages could be sent. So far, this request has not been acknowledged.
coolweather this is the shooter
http://heavy.com/news/2016/06/mainak-sarkar-william-klug-suspect-ucla-professor-shooting-blog-post/