Students Fear Lack of Safety on Campus

continued from page 3 however since then, she no longer does. She realized just how easy it would be for someone to enter the school at any time. responding to it. For that reason, the Chief of Police is coordinating different responses to different locations, and Kean University is one of them.

Across all Kean campuses, plans are in place for emergency procedures.

Monticello also talked about Rave, a new emergency assistant networking app, that is currently in the works among all campuses, that students will have access to on their phones. The app will become available for incoming freshmen students.

“We want the app to be user-friendly, where students are not just using it in case of an emergency for the first time,” Monticello said. “It’s going to be a

University Police Acting Director Anthony Monticello, explained that the university is actively practicing a tabletop, in which they go through an emergency scenario in slow motion, with all the emergency responders necessary. This allows for the university to actively practice an emergency, and get used to the exact procedure that they will follow.

Monticello also explained that all of the university officers are actively being trained in active shooter training, where they go every month to an offsite location and go through a live simulation. There they get a feel of actually being in the moment with a live shooter.

Monticello said Union County is also doing an entire revamp of incident command. If something were to happen at Kean University, there would be multiple agencies