Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Grad student suspended after pro gun rights e-mail | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com

Grad student suspended after pro gun rights e-mail | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com:

"A Minnesota university has suspended one of its graduate students who sent two e-mail messages to school officials supporting gun rights.

Hamline University also said that master's student Troy Scheffler, who owns a firearm, would be barred from campus and must receive a mandatory "mental health evaluation" after he sent an e-mail message arguing that law-abiding students should be able to carry firearms on campus for self-defense."

Here's one of the things that makes me crazy: the suspension of the US Constitution on US College campuses. For those who don't know, I spent more than 10 years working in universities as both staff and faculty, and saw a complete abolition of due process where it came to the rights of students and staff with conservative views.

In one case, my boss was sent to sensitivity training because it was alleged that he said "menacing" things to female students (one of these supposedly happened in my presence, but my characterization of the events differ). He asked if anyone cared whether or not the allegations were true, and the response from an Associate Dean was, "It's enough that there are complaints."

So the poor guy was found guilty based on hearsay.

Liberals pay a weird lip-service to the rights of individuals, and then trample them freely. Do they not recognize the disconnect between their ideology and their actions? Are they really that stupid? (Don't answer that.)

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