Posted on 09/05/2012 4:34:15 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Citing concerns for their safety, University of Colorado faculty members were vocal Tuesday in their opposition of the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling earlier this year to overturn CU's campus gun ban
Chancellor Phil DiStefano, Provost Russell Moore, CU attorney John Sleeman and CU police Cmdr. Robert Axmacher were on hand at a town hall-style meeting Tuesday to try and address the concerns of faculty members, many of whom were deeply disturbed by the fact students could now carry weapons into their lecture halls.
"I don't want to be surrounded by someone who's armed," said Paul Levitt, an English professor at CU. Levitt said that part of teaching sometimes involves intense debate and disappointed students, and he didn't want the threat of armed students impacting the way he teaches his class.
"Some classes are taught aggressively; some are taught passively," he said. "My approach to teaching is to challenge the students, and they don't always take too kindly to that."
The state Supreme Court ruled in March that CU cannot ban concealed-carry permit holders from bringing guns onto campus.
One of the primary concerns from the faculty on Tuesday was that Colorado law protects the identify of people who have concealed-carry permits, making it impossible for professors to know which students may legally have a weapon in the classroom. Permit holders do not have to reveal if they have a permit unless asked by a law enforcement officer.
Several professors asked what they should do if they saw a weapon on a student but were unable to determine if it was permitted or not.
Axmacher said that a faculty member in that situation could call 911 and have police respond. But he warned that teachers need to be careful about how they handle those situations.
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They always seem to forget that when their beloved police state arrives that the intellectuals will be among the first ones cleansed.
Oh, since this is CU Boulder how about this. Since you're always talking about this freedom and that right... Why are you, yes you CU Boulder trampling on others' rights?
When you strip away all of the shining rhetoric, the truth remains that the overriding dominant driver of Totatlitarian Elites is fear of the masses....
I had a shotgun in my closet all the time I was in college but until this moment, it never occurred to me that I could, in fact maybe should, shoot my English teacher.
That and they do not trust themselves to handle guns properly.
I would change one sentence.
From “...faculty members, many of whom were deeply disturbed...”, to
“...faculty members, many of whom ARE deeply disturbed...”
and since they obviously are too stoopit to realize this on their own, they obviously should have their licenses yanked until they can figgure it out...
A little fear in the elites is a good thing.
"Some classes are taught aggressively; some are taught passively," he said. "My approach to teaching is to challenge the students, and they don't always take too kindly to that."
Levitt's imprecise command of the spoken language ("surrounded" by one armed person?) makes me further question how one "challenges" students in a college English class. Given the general lack of spelling and grammar skills shown by the college age group, does he place himself in mortal danger by being a spelling/grammar Nazi? Are there impassioned debates about whether Shakespeare really existed and wrote his works or was it Roger Bacon? Does the inability to develop a thesis statement in a composition make him confrontational with the freshmen? Many academics have no grasp of what true freedom really means when applied as envisioned by the founders.
And I don’t want to be surrounded by panty-wetting,tenured, Marxists. But if you go to college, odds are you will be.
“Some classes are taught aggressively; some are taught passively,” he said. “My approach to teaching is to challenge the students, and they don’t always take too kindly to that.”
Meaning that she attempts to brainwash students and is suddenly afraid due to a guilty conscience of what might happen to her.
“I don’t want to be surrounded by someone who’s armed,” said Paul Levitt, an English professor at CU.
Ummm, surrounded by one person? And you’re an English Professor? Hmmm...
Only faculty members that have ulterior motives need be worried.
Cowards. Sissified cowards.
People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right’. Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
Why? For failing to teach you the proper rules of punctuation?
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