{"id":92,"date":"2016-09-06T18:17:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=92"},"modified":"2016-09-06T18:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:17:49","slug":"blue-lights-green-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2016\/09\/06\/blue-lights-green-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue lights, green dots"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: La Vie Staff Writers<\/p>\n

Safety is a priority at Lebanon Valley College, and the effort to keep students secure can be seen in two colors around campus: blue and green.<\/p>\n

Nineteen emergency telephones mounted on poles with blue lights are located across campus with one more to be installed in front of the McGill Baseball Field. In addition, each campus residence hall has an emergency phone at the main entrance and elevator phones can be used for emergency communication.<\/p>\n

The purpose is simple.\u00a0 The phones can be used anytime a student finds himself or herself in trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy pushing the red call button, a two-way phone call connects the user to the officer on duty,\u201d Brent Oberholtzer, Director of Public Safety and Green Dot Coordinator, said.\u00a0 \u201cThis way the user can be found even if they cannot verbally communicate their location.\u201d<\/p>\n

An officer receiving the notification will respond to the location to assess the situation if a solution can\u2019t be reached via the phone call.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese phones are designed for emergency situations,\u201d Oberholtzer said.\u00a0 \u201cIf someone were to feel unsafe or if someone witnesses another in distress and has no other form of communication (cell phone) they may use these devices to summon help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be a green dot <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lebanon Valley College is committed to being a violence free campus.\u00a0 Oberholtzer said bystanders have a great impact on changing and affecting others.\u00a0 The Green Dot program teaches people how to intervene when violence is about to take place.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one has to do everything but everyone has to do something,\u201d Oberholtzer said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sally Clark, an English professor, chairs the Green Dot Violence Prevention Committee at LVC.<\/p>\n

She described a green dot as an action taken by someone to prevent a red dot from occurring. Red dots can be anything including acts of dating\/domestic violence,
\nstalking and sexual assault.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, the goal is to establish and sustain a campus community that is covered with green dots,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n

The Green Dot program was introduced at LVC in 2013 and participation has steadily increased; it\u2019s a nationwide program at hundreds of colleges and universities, high schools and even military bases.\u00a0 Anyone can participate in Green Dot by taking a stand against violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur first session, Sunday, Sept. 18, is Green Dot\u00a0 National Action Day,\u201d Clark said.\u00a0 \u201cWe will have activities during the week before the training culminating in a \u2018Make Your Own Sundae with Green Toppings\u2019 on the porch of the Green Dot House (Sheridan East) on Friday, September 16, from 4-6 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the interim, students are invited to sign up for the bystander intervention training sessions on Redbook to become more informed about strategies and skills for safe and effective ways to prevent violence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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