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Coping with Campus ‘Avenger’ Violence

A classroom of UW-Madison administrators, advisers, and faculty members received training on spotting unstable students; barricading doors; even playing dead.

The purpose? To deal with what’s termed, “avenger violence.”

The on-going training session took place on the the anniversary of the week when a student gunman killed more than thirty people on the Virginia Tech campus.