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Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in Texas

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:14 pm
by Douva

Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in Tex

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:17 am
by DispositionMatrix
Seems like the MLA should be worried about something other than concealed carriers.

Adding to the drama, architecture dean at University of Texas at Austin, Fritz Steiner, claims he is leaving partially because of campus carry.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/25 ... eason-dep/
Fritz Steiner will take over as dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Design on July 1. The job offers an opportunity to join the Ivy League and return to the school where he earned three postgraduate degrees. But Steiner said he has turned down similar opportunities in the past, and probably would have done the same if people weren't going to be allowed to carry guns in classrooms and other places on the UT-Austin campus next school year.

"I would have never applied for another job if not for campus carry," he said in an interview. "I felt that I was going to be responsible for managing a law I didn't believe in."
"Penn is a great institution and I am very happy to go to Penn, but I was approached ... and, if it wouldn't have been for campus carry, I wouldn't have considered it," he said.

Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in Tex

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:26 am
by sikacz
Thanks for the links. :beer2:

Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in Tex

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:44 am
by dougb
He lives in Texas, and probably passes CC people everyday on the street. But concealed is concealed. He may want to check the Pennsylvania numbers.

Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in Tex

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:46 am
by DispositionMatrix

Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in Tex

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:54 am
by spara
But such an affront wouldn't happen in an Ivy League school.

Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in Tex

Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:55 am
by DispositionMatrix
After hearing the interview I am more convinced than ever this is a case of political grandstanding by Steiner, who is, after all, upgrading to an ivy league position. He claims to have been a hunter and takes the fudd approach of identifying proper firearms use with hunting. His stance is you can't hunt on campus, so you don't need a gun.
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/29/468522776 ... -on-campus
No transcript yet.

Re: Modern Language Association Protests Campus Carry in Tex

Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 10:27 am
by modernhamlet
DispositionMatrix wrote:After hearing the interview I am more convinced than ever this is a case of political grandstanding by Steiner, who is, after all, upgrading to an ivy league position. He claims to have been a hunter and takes the fudd approach of identifying proper firearms use with hunting. His stance is you can't hunt on campus, so you don't need a gun.
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/29/468522776 ... -on-campus
No transcript yet.
He may change his mind after having to walk through a war zone to get to the UPenn campus for a few months...