Video Trains Students And Faculty To Respond To Attacks

Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any "improvised weapon," from a backpack to a laptop computer. The program — which includes a video showing a gunman opening fire in a packed classroom — urges them to be ready to respond to a shooter by taking advantage of the inherent strength in numbers. It reflects a new response at colleges and universities where grisly memories of the campus shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University are still fresh. Read more at: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6a2pcWGGSayHXnDLa5LZxO3PPYwD92Q5G400