Universities should not retreat into their ivory towers because the discourse has gotten toxic; a retreat into the ivory tower will encourage even more toxic discourse.
Students on the campus, midway between the two shooting scenes in Lewiston, Maine, were confined to their dorms during the first two days of the manhunt.
The machines are the latest harm-reduction strategy on college campuses and give students easy access to Narcan, the overdose-reversing drug, and other related items that can save lives. Over 200 doses of Narcan, a medication in the form of a nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose, have been distributed from a vending machine on the campus of Oakland University in Michigan in the six months since the machine was installed. That doesn’t mean all those doses have been used. But the vending machine allows students, faculty members and anyone who visits campus free and easy access to the drug, which public health officials are urging the public to keep on hand on the off chance they ever encounter someone experiencing an overdose.