Brown University launches new campus recovery effort in wake of fatal shooting

"The name of the Brown Ever True initiative was inspired by the ways many of you naturally invoked this phrase as a clarion call in the days after the tragedy. In countless emails, calls, and letters I have received, members of our community have insisted that we must declare loudly to the world all that "we are," wrote Brown President Christina Paxson in a "healing and recovery effort" email sent to the Brown community on Jan 5."

"The program is set to increase campus security in "visible and reassuring ways," including security adjustments across College Hill and in the Jewelry district, both hotspots for college students, and plans to add more blue light phones and panic buttons around campus. "We have doubled staffing by Brown's department of public safety, and law, and security personnel from multiple agencies have been a part of a massive mobilization to secure our campus, day and night," Paxson said in a videotaped statement."

Brown University launched a whole-campus recovery initiative called Brown Ever True after an on-campus fatal shooting that killed two students and injured nine. The initiative was inspired by community invocations of "Ever True" and aims to restore safety and reassurance across College Hill and the Jewelry District. Plans include long- and short-term recovery measures, expanded mental health support for students, faculty, and staff, visible security enhancements such as more blue light phones and panic buttons, and adjustments to campus security staffing. Brown doubled department of public safety staffing and coordinated multiple law enforcement agencies. The university will install a campus memorial and hold annual remembrance events.

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