Workers at The Ohio State University continue installing locks on hundreds of classroom doors to improve on-campus safety.
School officials say after a November 2016 on-campus attack, many students and faculty said they wanted more locks on doors. Until then, most classrooms did not have locks.
鈥淭here was a desire from faculty, students and staff to try to have a more uniform locking mechanism in academic classrooms,鈥� says Ohio State spokesperson Dan Hedman. 鈥淎nd so, based on that, funding was made available, and this three-year project will actually hopefully be wrapping up in just two years with the installation of locks in 300 classrooms across campus.鈥�
Those 300 classroom will receive more than 600 locks.
Last August, the university also outlining the 鈥淩un Hide Fight鈥� model of responding to on-campus attacks. WOSU-TV helped produce the video.
On Nov. 28, 2016, police say Ohio State student Abdul Razak Ali Artan began attacking people with a butcher knife after driving a car into a group of pedestrians. Eleven people were injured. Within minutes of the attack, a campus police officer shot and killed Artan.
