LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – College students ready the decorations for UNLV’s Winter Fest stage within the shadow of Beam Corridor Thursday evening, reflecting on the constructing’s security on the eve of the Dec. 6 mass taking pictures.
Ryan Nunez, a UNLV scholar, labored on the ending touches for the end-of-semester occasion as he helped lay out smore provides for attendees. College students talked about the work for occasions like Winter Fest is supposed to assist college students look towards the campus’s future, and when applicable mirror on final 12 months’s mass taking pictures.
College students ready the decorations for UNLV’s Winter Fest stage within the shadow of Beam Corridor Thursday evening, reflecting on the constructing’s security on the eve of the Dec. 6 mass taking pictures. (KLAS)
“I feel like a lot has happened since December 6,” Nunez stated. “I think it was a reaction that the whole UNLV community has been more attentive towards what kind of security presence we have at campus, and I feel like it’s increased a lot.”
Many of the further safety shouldn’t be meant to take any enforcement motion, in line with UNLV Police Companies, nevertheless, they may also help in emergency conditions, performing in a proactive method.
“I’ve [seen] a lot more personnel on campus,” Nunez stated. “It also shows that we are now seeing more things that can help students and let them know that they are safer.”
Allister Dias, president of the Consolidated College students of UNLV, defined how the anniversary pulls again recollections for a lot of college students like him who have been on campus the day of the taking pictures.
A ceremony to recollect and mirror on the occasions of December 6 shall be held Friday on the Alumni Amphitheater. (KLAS)
“I went on to the balcony, and I heard kind of several large pops go off and immediately knew that was gunshots,” Dias stated. “We ran out the side of the Student Union Building, where you started to hear more gunshots, and more police start piling up.”
Dias stated most college students he has spoken to have felt as if there was an enough quantity of safety added within the 12 months because the taking pictures, nevertheless stated it’s regular for college kids to ask for extra.
Allister Dias stated most college students he has spoken to have felt as if there was an enough quantity of safety added within the 12 months because the taking pictures, nevertheless stated it’s regular for college kids to ask for extra. (KLAS)
“I think the issue of security really depends on what students you ask,” Dias stated. “I think there is an area where some students may feel like maybe more should be done, but I think for the most part, a majority of students that I talked to and kind of gotten feedback from say that they feel to some level, a little bit more safer, especially in Beam Hall with the new security.”
A ceremony to recollect and mirror on the occasions of December 6 shall be held Friday on the Alumni Amphitheater. College students and workers will showcase artwork which is meant to assist attendees reckon with and heal from the mass taking pictures on campus.
