Posted on 03/23/2016 11:14:19 AM PDT by lowbridge
Apparently, it's not enough that UND's administration is attacking the quality of education by cutting programs and experienced faculty and jacking class sizes. Now, we must also feel under physical attack as well.
I look up from my office computer to see two figures in camo with guns outside my window. My first thought is for my students' and my safety: I grab my phone, crawl under my desk and call 911. The dispatcher keeps me on the line until someone can see if ROTC is doing maneuvers.
I can barely talkfirst, with fear, and then with rage when the dispatcher reports back that yes, in fact, I've probably just seen ROTC cadets, though they're going to send an officer to check because no one has cleared it with them. They thank me for reporting it.
A few minutes later, a university officer calls me backnot to reassure me, but to scold me for calling 911. He says ROTC has permission to do this exercise. When I tell him that this was news to 911 and that they encouraged me to call whenever I see a gun on campus, he seems surprised.
He also tells me that ROTC will be doing these exercises for the next couple weeks.
So I reply that I guess I'll be calling 911 for the next couple weeksand I will. Every time.
(Excerpt) Read more at grandforksherald.com ...
Maybe they did notify everyone and she just ignored it? It seems very one sided from her, where are the reports of all the other people at UND peeing their pants over over people in camo carrying guns? Sorry I’m not gonna give the twit an inch.
I went to UND. To those of us, who are NOT into PC, it will ALWAYS be the Fighting Sioux.
Many people who go to UND hockey games, wear jerseys with "Sioux" on them. Screw the PC crowd.
I grew up in Fargo and had many friends attend UND.
Possibly. By the administration’s reaction she was not reprimanded for failure to inform herself, but I don’t know.
It’s the common abbreviation for “underwear.”
For God’s sake. It sounds like marching, as in drill and ceremonies. For parades and stuff. Military exercises in the quad? Don’t be such a dope.
If someone is wearing a US uniform, they’re probably not terrorists. But then she doesn’t even know what US uniform looks like and no one in her circle or family is a veteran.
Sounds to me like they were just walking through. She saw the guns and uniforms and profiled them as enemies of the progressive movement.
I grew up in Grand Forks, so I was a Sioux hockey fan from WAY back. Now, they play in Engelstad Arena, probably on of the best college hockey arenas in the country. I played hockey with one of the Engelstad guys. I think he was a cousin of theirs.
She dived under her desk? Thats for protection from the atomic bomb. Not guns. Silly woman ;-)
Watch your pig mouth.
It sounds like nothing of the kind. Terrorism exists on campuses. Shootings happen. Even the police and military conduct unannounced training ops in cities and scare the hell out of people.
Maybe if you consider books as a source of cleaning paper to pull through the barrel of your rifle you think this is a trivial situation, but the basic idea of giving clear warning to people you KNOW fear guns is mandatory.
Who's the dope?
Probably. But these days armed activities on campus should be clearly labeled to all. Too many much for everyone to to be perfectly clear at all times. Just like at a shooting range.
GrandForksHerald might be a clue...
Someone asks a legit question so you two give a snotty non-answer.
I went to HS in South Dakota ans never heard of Grand Forks. It happens.
“some gung-ho Operator wannabe”
My mom was an operator. I had no idea what that meant. I’ll see if she will tell me some stories. But you know how operators are, they keep it all inside.
“If someone is wearing a US uniform, theyre probably not terrorists”
Ohhhh,, ,like Major Hassan, or like Sgt Akbar. Clothing is a poor way to determine intent.
Just calm down.
More coffee is the answer.
More coffee is *always* the answer.
You need to watch the movie, Stripes. It’d be the extent of your military acumen but it might alert you to the diff between drills and exercises. ROTC marches in the quads; terrorists don’t. Not even SWAT teams do that. Watch your panic button; you sound like you belong on HUFFPO. BTW, I didn’t call you a dope. Even if you obviously know little about rifles, the military, exercises, drills, terrorism. And probably books, too for that matter.
Heidi et al are the enemy
Perhaps because the shootings haven't been perpetrated by persons in US Army uniforms.............
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