Call for Action Speech Outline

Topic: Campus Safety

Specific Purpose: Persuade the class to contact an SGA officer with the proposal that walk-
through metal detectors should be placed at the entrances of the buildings on the Jacksonville
State University campus.

Proposition: Walk-through metal detectors should be placed at the entrances of the buildings on
the Jacksonville State University campus in order to protect JSU staff and students.

Introduction:

A. JSU offers the Security Escort Service, JSU Emergency Alert System, and Safe
Zone plus to protect students and staff.
B. Why not take it one step further and place walk-through metal detectors at the
entrances of the buildings on the JSU campus, in order to further protect us?

Body 1:

A. Attention Material: Each year, hundreds of college students are robbed, raped, or
assaulted in some way while on campus.
B. Main Point: To make the class aware that countless acts of violence occurs on
college campuses each year and that the statistics apply to both men and women.
C. Importance: The class needs to be aware that violence occurs on college campuses.

Body 2:

A. Main point: To make the class aware that acts of violence can be stopped if people
have to walk through metal detectors, because any weapon that is made of metal can be revealed
and people can be rid of weapons.
B. Importance: The class needs to know that acts of violence can be stopped if people
are required to walk through metal detectors.

Body 3:

A. Main point: To make the class aware of three different acts of violence on college
campuses and how they were all carried out by a weapon made of metal.
1. One of the most remembered acts of violence on a college campus is the
Virginia Tech massacre.
2. Less than two years after the Virginia Tech massacre, a Virginia Tech
graduate student stabbed and decapitated Haiyung Zhu at an on campus restaurant.
3. A former Northern Illinois University student walked on the NIU campus and
killed five people, injured 21, and then killed himself on February 14
th
, 2008
B. There are many other acts of violence, such as these, that are committed every year
on college campuses.
C. Importance: These acts of violence could have been stopped if the people who
committed the crimes had to walk through a metal detector as soon as they entered a building on
any of the campuses.

Body 4:
A. Main Point: Make the class aware of what will happen if metal detectors are not
placed in the buildings on the JSU campus, and what will happen if they are.
1. If we keep allowing people to bring weapons into the buildings of campuses,
then situations such as these will continue to occur.
2. If Jacksonville State University administration will take a stand on these
intolerable acts of violence, then hopefully other colleges will follow.

Conclusion:

If you would like to make the proposal of metal detectors being placed at the entrances of the
buildings on the JSU campus then please contact SGA president, Brett Johnson at (256) 782-
5042 or SGA advisor Debbie Taylor at (256) 782-5490.