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deadbolts equip 90% of doors Safety of classrooms assured after January lockdown BY DAVID HELANDER STAFF REPORTER
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revolution that needs to take place within the Sanders campaign and how she wanted America be a “good place for all of us to live.” She went on to say “We will finish what we started in 2016.” As soon as Sanders was seen by the crowd and reached the podium, the crowd of thousands erupted into a huge chant of “Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!” In a quick response to the crowd, “No, no, no it is not me, it is us,” with his speech focused on his policies. Sanders started speaking by delivering a usual blow to the Trump presidency. “Donald Trump is an embarrassment to the United States,” Sanders
Certain doors on campus lack deadbolts that allow doors to be locked from the inside. Fred Diamond, director of facilities, estimated 90 percent of doors are currently equipped with internally lockable thumbturn deadbolts. The campus lockdown on Jan. 15 and the inability to lock these doors had some students and faculty questioning their safety should an emergency situation occur. Student Peter Conley was trapped in his classroom for over six hours during the lockdown. He was inside a room that had doors with deadbolts on all exits. Conley said had those doors not been lockable his anxiety during the situation would have been much higher, causing him to stay in a highalert position for longer. Conley said his professor issued instructions on what actions to take should an active shooter attempt to enter their classroom. “The professor told us that if it was an active shooter that we should throw everything we could get our hands on and that he would charge the shooter,” Conley said. “There is nothing else you can do in that situation.” This is in part due to a ongoing retrofitting effort. The remaining 10 percent of doors fall into three categories. The first, Diamond said, are those doors which are mandated by law to retain panic-bars. Panic-bars, also known as crushbars, perform a life-saving function in the event of a fire. An inward-swinging door equipped with a conventional handle can trap panicked occupants crowded around an exit, Diamond said. Panic-bar doors curtail this by opening via pushing, and always swing outward. The way by which panic-bars work make it impossible to fit these doors with a thumbturn deadbolt. The requirements to have panic-bars are determined by factors like occupancy rating as well as for what
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt) announces his campaign promises to the a crowd of more than a 1000 people gathered on March 23, in Grand Park, Los Angeles. Sanders talked about his goals for free healthcare and college to the cheering crowd below him.
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Sen. Sanders shares goals for his 2020 presidential campaign with L.A. crowd
BY ANDRE LOPEZ
He believes everything I believe. Free education, free medical and that’s the way it should be. It’s not just the rich get to go to school and the poor have to go go work.”
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the most popular politicians in the U.S., held his own announcement rally in Grand Park in Los Angeles for the first time since he announced his run for president earlier this year on March 23. Many Democratic politicians know that California is going to be a key battleground to winning the Democratic primaries, so they frequently rally in the blue state. As the 2020 race for the presidency starts to heat up, many Democrat and Republican voters look to find their best choice in the elections. People, from couples with young children to older men and women from the Los Angeles community came out to support Sanders at the rally. William Dore, an older man and attendee of the rally, advocated for the legalization of marijuana. “He believes everything I believe, free education, free medical and that’s the way it should be. It’s not just the rich get to go to school and the poor have to go to work,” Dore said. For the children that attended the rally with their parents, most were covered from head to toe in Sanders’
-WILLIAM DORE attendee of the rally
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Senator Bernie Sanders steps off the podium after the speech to meet face to face with his supporters on March 23 in Grand Park, Los Angeles. Sanders shook hands and hugged people as he made his way around the buffer zone.
merchandise; they yelled and screamed alongside their parents for the promises that Sanders hoped to accomplish. Free college, Medicare for all and expanding social security are just some of Sanders’ goals once in office. “I look at it as a total medicine and people who are against it, the big companies didn’t want to see it because they thought people would get lethargic and wouldn’t work hard,” Dore said. “But they’ll give any of them coffee for free and keep ‘em wound up …. They haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of the
medical part.” A number of speakers were in support of Sanders, including California Rep. Ro Khanna of the 17th congressional district, which covers a majority of the east San Francisco bay area. Khanna agreed about many of the policy ideas that Sanders had, with the largest idea being a Medicare for all system. “We seek to build America up, not others down,” Khanna said. Nina Turner, former senator from Ohio, also spoke about similar policy ideas of Sanders at the rally. Turner spoke about the political
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Campus’ pop-rock classes lead to the creation of a new alternative and classic-influenced rock band
Mobile food pantry available to students twice a month