Victor Schwartz
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Dr. Victor Schwartz is University Dean of Students at Yeshiva University and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at YU’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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Disaster 101: Guns on College Campuses

Posted October 28, 2010 | 14:07:42 (EST)

Several states are currently dealing with well-organized efforts to loosen regulations prohibiting or limiting the ability to carry firearms on college campuses. The University of Colorado is now being sued by the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus over the institution's right to enact a campus-wide ban on concealed...

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Caring for Vets in College

Posted September 2, 2010 | 18:19:34 (EST)

The data released recently by the US government regarding the alarming rate of suicide among active members of our armed forces is cause for serious concern. For the past two years, the rate was nearly double that of age matched civilians and, in 2009, more soldiers died as result of...

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Keep Guns Off College Campuses

Posted May 12, 2010 | 14:03:31 (EST)

Several states have now proposed laws that would allow students to carry concealed weapons on their college campus. Advocates of these bills argue that the recent tragic shootings at colleges in Virginia and Illinois might have been prevented or mitigated if students and faculty--not just the gunman--had firearms at the...

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