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Friday, August 24, 2012

Quick Action for Dumb Questions at U of Colorado?

According to the chancellor of the U of Colorado, faculty may not shut down a class just because a student is carrying a gun.  So reports Inside Higher Ed today:
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that students with concealed carry permits could bring handguns to university classrooms. ...(T)his week, Jerry Peterson, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly, said he would cancel classes if he found that someone had brought a firearm to class... (But) Philip P. DiStefano, the chancellor at UC-Boulder, sent out an e-mail Tuesday to faculty members that they could not shut down a class if a student with a concealed carry permit brought a gun...


On the other hand, faculty could presumably also carry a gun and if someone asked a really dumb question:

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