CU-Boulder faculty chairman says he'll cancel his classes if students carry guns

Boulder Camera ^ | 21 Aug 2012 | Brittany Anas

[real saxophonist]

The state Supreme Court has made it clear that the University of Colorado can't stop students with concealed-carry permits from bringing their guns to campus. But the chairman of the Boulder Faculty Assembly says if he ever discovers that any of his students are armed, class is over.

CU physics professor Jerry Peterson -- speaking for himself Monday, not the faculty group he leads -- said he wants his students to feel safe to engage in classroom discussions that could be controversial.

[SkyDancer]

Do not diminish the lowly Muscat.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Nice.

[editor-surveyor]

Don’t feel well without muscatel!

[WWABD]

Nice....Yugo MB70AB2.

[ConorMacNessa]

Not at all! A pleasant aperatif!



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Tainan]

That’s nice...my kind of Yugo

[TigersEye]

That explains why I’ve never met a Buddhist chicken!

[MrB]

I have a poem for the professor..

The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are, you are,
What a beautiful Pussy you are."

[School of Rational Thought]

What would be so controversial in physics that somebody would lose their cool?

colliding atoms?

[archy]

I'm merely a physical chemist, but I never saw a physics discussion that was "controversial" enough to raise emotions to the level of spit-ball throwing -- much less pulling a weapon.

That would be mechanical engineers who get seriously argumentattive about whose solution is more elegant, not physicists. Usually. But then there's guys like Leo Szilard, notable for getting testy with those who could not follow his choreography of angels danciong on the point of a pin. Sadly, he left us to figure out things for ourselves after a fatal heart attack back around 1964 or so.

Leo is the one on the right, explaining the basics of physics to his friend Al.

[archy]

Boulder makes Boston look conservative.

Steve Coontz is the only conservative in Boulder

But Soldier of Fortune magazine is published in Arvada, and their offices are there. That balances things out a bit, and keeps the know-it-all perfesser types out of the local saloons, 'ceptin' for the ones with ferns and saffron curtains.

[archy]

Nice....Yugo MB70AB2.

Da. Popular, in some circles.

[archy]

.That’s nice...my kind of Yugo.

Handy, but I'm partial to the M53 SARAC as well.

[archy]

.That’s nice...my kind of Yugo.

Handy, but I'm partial to the M53 SARAC as well.

[Stonewall Jackson]

I just drooled all over my keyboard. ;-)