The University of Michigan 
will 
begin 
offering 
optional 
active 
attacker 
training 
to 
students, 
faculty, 
staff 
and 
community members through 
a 
program 
called 
“Capable 
Guardian: Instruct, Evacuate, 
Shelter, Defend.” The training 
is provided through the safety 
and security company Threat 
Suppression Incorporated and 
will be implemented by the 
Division of Public Safety and 
Security.
Melissa Overton, deputy chief 
of police and public information 
officer, said Capable Guardian 
does not yet have an estimated 
start date. She said the program 

will 
work 
to 
address 
the 
“in-between” area that often 
occurs as a result of active 
attacker protocol.
“What we do, or what we’re 
going to begin doing, is that 
in-between — what is the role 
of the staff member at the 
University, with a classroom of 
staff?” Overton said. “We started 
with the areas of concern based 
on experience and educating 
the 
community 
that 
require 
attention.”
According 
to 
the 
Threat 
Suppression website, the “run, 
hide, fight” mantra employed by 
the Department of Homeland 
Security 
as 
active 
attacker 
protocol has been found to cause 
uncertainty that may lead to the 
spread of inaccurate or vague 

information. 
The 
University 
utilizes the “run, hide, fight” 
mantra 
as 
active 
attacker 
protocol.
After unfounded reports of 
an active shooter in Mason Hall 
surfaced on March 16, many 
community members expressed 
concern regarding the clarity of 
the “run, hide, fight” protocol. 
LSA 
senior 
Brad 
Ebenhoeh, 
who uses a wheelchair, said he 
was not previously informed of 
protocol in an active attacker 
situation, nor was he informed of 
how individuals with disabilities 
should approach the protocol.
“It has been three weeks since 
the active shooter false claim, 
and I still don’t know what to 
do,” Ebenhoeh said. “That is 
unacceptable in my eyes.”
However, Overton said this 
situation did not factor into 
the decision to implement the 
Capable Guardian program at 
the University. DPSS Officer 
Matt Butzky, who brought 
the program to the attention 
of DPSS, said he first became 
aware of Threat Suppression 
and 
Mike 
Clumpner, 
its 
president 
and 
CEO, 
after 
attending a one-day training 
session on joint public safety 
response 
to 
active 
shooter 
events in early 2016. 
“Dr. 
Clumpner 
was 
particularly impressive in that 
session because so much of his 
information was supported by 
data and he was on the leading 
edge of the joint response 
concept 
to 
active 
shooter 
incidents,” Butzky said. “Later, 
I sought him out after we 
identified a couple areas in 
which we wanted to provide 
more 
specific 
information 
on active attacker response, 
building on the ‘run, hide, fight’ 
model already in place.”
Overton said DPSS hosted a 
three-day training by Clumpner 
March 6-8 of this year, which 

was planned more than a year 
prior.
The program will primarily 
focus 
on 
one’s 
position 
in 
an active attacker situation, 
Overton 
said. 
DPSS 
will 
also include a new module 
in the program that focuses 
specifically on the safety of 
people with disabilities in the 
event of an active attacker. This 
area does not currently exist in 
the Capable Guardian program.
“Our 
community 
members 
are in a role, either by their job 
title 
or 
personal 
conviction, 
where they would be unable to 
leave a vulnerable population or 
those which they are charged 
with 
leading 
or 
protecting, 
and also community members 
that have a disability or how to 
better prepare them within the 
framework of the ‘run, hide, 
fight’ model,” Overton said. “So 
these are both two areas that 
we’re going to be working on 
the community with, and it’s 
basically just training, educating 
and exercising so that they know 
what to do and how to respond to 
an active attacker.”
Threat Suppression defines 
capable guardians as “people 
within organizations to which 
others would immediately look 
to for guidance during an active 
shooter event.” According to the 
Threat Suppression website, the 
presentation will focus on many 
important components of the 
capable guardian concept.
“To understand how to manage 
people during times of duress, 
the participants are taught about 
the concepts of mass hysteria and 
crowd contagion,” the site reads. 
“The participants are also taught 
about research-based findings 
of 
human 
behavior 
during 
times of crises. The behavior 
is often dependent on several 
factors. One mitigating factor 
is the presence of a competent, 
identified, capable guardian.”

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ON THE DAILY: U-M TO PURCHASE RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM DTE ENERGY

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: REGENTS MAY REFUSE 
HONORARY DEGREE TO MANDELA

The University of Michigan 
will purchase renewable energy 
annually from DTE Energy, a 
Detroit-based firm, starting in 
2021. University officials say DTE 
will provide about half of the 
purchased electricity on the Ann 

Arbor campus. This will offer a 
significant step toward reducing 
greenhouse 
gas 
emissions, 
according to the University. 
The University will purchase 
approximately 200,000 megawatt 
hours 
of 
renewable 
energy 
annually 
from 
the 
company. 
University officials say this move 
will contribute to the University’s 

2025 greenhouse gas reduction 
goal of reducing GHG emissions 
25 percent below 2006 levels.
Climate change activists have 
raised concerns regarding the 
placement of DTE’s vice president 
of corporate strategy Camilo 
Serna on University President 
Mark Schlissel’s commission to 
develop 
recommendations 
for 

achieving sustainability.
The purchase follows the Global 
Climate Strike and a number of 
sit-ins by climate activists at the 
Fleming Administration Building, 
which 
houses 
a 
number 
of 
administration offices. Activists 
aim to get Schlissel to agree to a 
public, unfiltered and student-
moderated town hall.

April 9, 1986
Jailed South African leader 
Nelson Mandela will probably 
not receive an honorary degree at 
the University’s commencement 
ceremony next month because a 
Board of Regents bylaw prohibits 
giving an honorary degree “in 
absentia.”
In addition, a member of the 
University’s 
honorary 
degree 

committee, who refused to be 
identified, said the regents, in a 
closed session in January, rejected 
the 
panel’s 
recommendation 
that Raoul Wallenberg be given 
an honorary degree, because 
Wallenberg would be unable to 
accept the honor in person.
Wallenberg, 
a 
former 
University 
student, 
who 
saved the lives of hundreds of 

thousands of Hungarian Jews 
in Nazi Germany, disappeared 
shortly after World War II. He is 
believed to be dead. 
Mandela, 
a 
black 
South 
African, has been in prison since 
1962, serving a life sentence for 
leading the revolution against 
the nation’s white regime. He is 
recognized as a symbol of the 
anti-apartheid movement in his 

country.
A 
group 
of 
University 
students called the Free South 
Africa Coordinating Committe 
(FSACC) has been urging the 
University to give Mandela the 
degree. 
One of the reasons the group 
constructed a shanty on the 
Diag was to draw attention to its 
request that Mandela be honored.

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‘Capable Guardian’ program offers 
training on active shooter response

DPSS provides optional instruction to students, faculty on ‘run, hide, fight’

ZAYNA SYED
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Capable Guardian participants 
will learn about crisis theories 
that help explain how crisis 
events 
follow 
similar 
and 
predictable paths. The program 
will also include active attacker 
training 
and 
focus 
on 
the 
participant’s role in a situation as 
a capable guardian.
Butzky said DPSS hopes to 
incorporate the Capable Guardian 
concept 
as 
a 
supplemental 
module to the “run, hide, fight” 
information already being shared 
on campus for those who may 
want more information on what 
actions they can take.
“It’s 
important 
for 
those 
that are willing to take on that 
additional risk to have confidence 
in their knowledge, ability, and 
authority,” Butzky said. “The 
presentation 
(by 
Clumpner) 
was 
also 
valuable 
to 
DPSS 
administration as it clarified 
the role of security personnel 
in 
active 
attacker 
incidents. 
Similarly, we hope to build out 
another module that provides 

more specific information for 
those with disabilities.”
According 
to 
Overton, 
students, 
staff, 
faculty 
and 
community members will be able 
to sign up for the program through 
the DPSS website. A community 
outreach officer will then make 
contact 
with 
the 
interested 
individual and set up the training. 
Overton said she believes offering 
Capable Guardian is moving the 
University in the right direction.
Ebenhoeh said he is in support 
of the implementation of the 
program. He said he hopes the 
University will properly address 
the 
safety 
of 
people 
with 
disabilities in the program, as 
he has still not been informed 
of protocol following the false 
reports.
“If people do it, I am for it,” 
Ebenhoeh said. “I would sincerely 
hope that the University would 
handle where a person with a 
disability is supposed to go in 
shelter (during an active shooter 
situation).”

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