New security system being installed on Mizzou classroom doors

Columbia, Mo. — A new panic button security system is being installed on doors to classrooms and auditoriums on the Mizzou campus.

The system is called Intruder Door Lock and will be installed on more than 300 rooms by next fall according to a Mizzou spokesperson.

The security measure is just one more effort to make college and university campuses safer an issue highlighted by Wednesdays mass shooting on a high school in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead.

House bill 1942 is moving through the Missouri House to allow public and private universities and colleges to designate certain staff to carry concealed weapons on their campuses after training.

That bill moved to a House Rules Committee yesterday.

The idea has drawn mixed reaction from Mizzou students.

“I’m not really comfortable with that like just having guns in the classroom in general seems like something I wouldn’t want but at the same time the counterpoint you do want to have a counter measure a protection for the kids that are getting shot,” said Mizzou student Benjamin Miinch.