This past Monday on August 28th, a 34-year-old University of North Carolina graduate student shot his research advisor, Zijie Yan. Yan was deeply respected, knowledgeable, approachable, and the leader of the Yan Research Group. Yan is one of 94 people who have been killed in at least 308 instances of gunfire within college campuses across the US. This year alone, there were at least 86 gun violence incidents on all campuses, regardless of education level, that resulted in a total of 27 deaths and 57 injuries nationally. In her recent article, @pennyygarza stresses the importance of addressing student safety. She writes, “We are told that it takes time, and policies develop very slowly. Yet, how many people must die before anything is genuinely different? Why is it increasingly becoming more likely to potentially get shot? How many times will the news display another tragedy calling for change when nothing happened since the last one?” Read the full article on rowdymagazine.com Gr...