For example, at UT-Austin --- where once upon a time I was a biz law prof --- and Texas A&M, faculty are wondering if they can require their students to check their firearms at the office door.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Ed, some faculty are posting "No Forearms Allowed" signs on their office doors, as they brace for the first semester in which concealed-carry is the new order of the day.
According to the article, "The new law
allows people age 21 and over who have concealed-carry licenses to
bring guns into most buildings on public-college campuses. Individual
institutions were given some leeway to carve out exclusion zones; the
University of Texas at Austin, for instance, generally bans weapons from
dormitories, while Texas A&M University does not."
I think we are all still reeling from all the "Cop v. Minorities' shootings of June and July, as well as the images of assault-rifle toting Ohioans at the GOP convention in Cleveland, where open-carry is the rule of law. And we still have nearly four more weeks of August to get through, before we wrap up this bloody, mad summer on Labor Day Weekend.
Speaking as a university administrator of some 25 years' experience, who has seen his fair share of disturbed students, concealed-carry would make me a little nervous. I wonder if grade inflation will be evident in the Texas public-university system this coming academic year.
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