Dan Nadler, vice president for student affairs, addressed the student government as part of his reaction to Monday’s shootings at Virginia Tech.

“Here at the university we certainly take campus safety, personal safety and security extremely serious,” Nadler said. “There’s nothing more serious, in fact, at the university.”

He told those present about the safety resources on campus, including 21 fully commissioned police officers, 19 emergency phones throughout campus and residence hall night assistants who have direct communication with the University Police Department at all times.

Phase 1 of the security project has been completed, which includes on-campus cameras at the Student Recreation Center and the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and additional cameras in the residence halls. New screens, referred to as safety screens, were installed in the first floors of residence halls and Greek Court. These screens make it harder for people to break in.

This summer, additional cameras will be added to the Rec, union, and also completing the entire south quad, regarding residence halls public areas and dining centers.

“We will continue to do everything we possibly can to do a better job with campus security and safety,” Nadler said. “Certainly we live and work and study at one of the most safest campuses in the country, but that’s not always good enough. We always want to do better, we always want to do more. We always want to make enhancements.

Nadler also explained the University’s Emergency Management Team, which is “automatically and immediately activated any time there is an emergency – whether it be a medical disaster or any other kind of crisis,” he said. “We have a series of protocols, a series of procedures that we follow, one of which is actually an active shooter protocol this is a situation if – we were very unfortunate where there is an active shooting going on, our police officers are trained and there protocol’s in place for us to deal with all of that.”