Posted on 10/04/2007 7:34:04 AM PDT by OrangeDaisy
Mufreesboro, TN
The Student Government Association votes today on a resolution to have MTSU students who have gun permits to carry firearms on campus.
The resolution, called the Student Defense Resolution, asks the MTSU administration to petition the general assembly in favor of allowing faculty, students and staff of MTSU that have firearm permits to carry on campus.
Matthew Hurtt, junior political science major and senator for the College of Liberal Arts, is sponsoring the Student Defense Resolution.
"We are basically asking the administration to petition to allow students, faculty and staff, who have reached 21 and obtained a permit, to carry fire arms on campus," Hurtt said.
Diedra Stamper, an employee of On Target in Murfreesboro, is speaking on behalf of the resolution.
"Diedra is a state certified firearms expert," Hurtt said.
Leading the dissenting opinion on the resolution is Lemon Keith, senior journalism major and senator for the College of Mass Communication.
"I'm opposing the resolution, not because I believe it is right or wrong, but because the students I represent don't agree with it," Keith said. "The survey that Matt Hurtt conducted was not inclusive enough of the student body."
The survey was done with 500 students, Hurtt said. The students were asked if they were for or against guns on the MTSU campus.
"It's a non-scientific poll and roughly 63 percent of the students were favorable for guns of campus," Hurtt said.
He said that for the first hundred students surveyed, they filled out questionaires. "But it became to complicated, so I switched to tally marks," he said
Speaking against the resolution is Buddy Peaster, chief of police at MTSU.
"Chief Peaster will talk about some of the security measures MTSU is thinking about doing," Keith said. "Right now, campus is thinking about doing security cameras. The only problems are where to put them and finding people to monitor them."
Administration has not been amenable towards the resolution, Hurtt said.
A few faculty and MTSU police officers have expressed approval, however.
"The administration says it would drastically change the college dynamics," Hurtt said. "It is hard to believe that MTSU as a whole would interfere with the working of the student government."
The SGA will meet on Oct. 4 in the Keathley University Center, room 322 at 4:30 p.m. to vote on the firearm resolution.
Shouldn’t have to petition anybody to allow a right you already have.
Hopefully they’ll vote Yes anyway, recognizing that right they already have.
"I'm opposing the resolution, not because I believe it is right or wrong, but because the students I represent don't agree with it," Keith said. "The survey that Matt Hurtt conducted was not inclusive enough of the student body."
IOW it didnt agree with your decree...
The survey was done with 500 students, Hurtt said. The students were asked if they were for or against guns on the MTSU campus. "It's a non-scientific poll and roughly 63 percent of the students were favorable for guns of campus," Hurtt said.
sounds pretty far above the margin of error...
Middle TN ping.
The boy who cuts my hair today was railing about the Jena Six thing today.
Asking why blacks think they deserve special treatment for everything.
He considers himself open minded and was public school raised here and is pretty much white boy hip hop big rims pick-up but short of W-word and maybe more Kid Rock
anyhow....gave me hope
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