After stabbings, students call for better security measures

University student groups across Canada are calling for better training for on-campus security and regular safety audits in the wake of a triple stabbing in a Waterloo, Ontario classroom, writes Kate Bueckert for CBC News.

The coalition of student groups held an ‘Our Campus, Our Safety’ news conference on the afternoon of Monday 17 July, nearly three weeks after an associate professor and two students were taken to hospital after the stabbings in a University of Waterloo gender studies class.

Police have called the 28 June incident a hate-motivated attack. A 24-year-old man who recently graduated from the University of Waterloo has been charged. He is scheduled for another court hearing on 25 July. “I know the pain, the frustration and the sadness that has been seen on our campus through the past couple of weeks,” Katie Traynor, vice-president of the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association, said during the news conference. "As students, we deserve a safe, inclusive learning environment that's also free from violence and the threat of harm.”
Full report on the CBC News site