Saturday, April 08, 2023
Northwestern Now
Two weeks after a shooting took the life of an 18-year-old Skokie resident on Clark Street Beach adjacent to Northwestern’s Evanston campus, the University continues to review its practices and policies in response to the shooting, as is done after any emergency on or near its campuses. The shooting highlighted the complexity of such situations, in which information – and subsequent communications – can change in real time, which often creates challenges in balancing the speed and accuracy of communications.