When the University of Texas released a report last week detailing where it plans to allow guns on its Austin campus, Nora Dolliver’s choice of graduate schools narrowed by one.
The languages student at the University of Chicago sent an email to staff with the subject “Declining Offer of Admission Due to Campus Carry Guidelines”, and will now pursue a dual masters in Russian and Eastern European studies and library sciences elsewhere. Someplace where she can feel confident that the person she is sitting next to is not packing a concealed pistol.
Students and academics have warned of a chilling effect on freedom of expression ever since Texas became the latest state to pass a “campus carry” law last year. It compels public universities to allow license holders aged 21 and over to bring concealed handguns on to most areas of campus.
Continue reading: Texas academics told to avoid ‘sensitive topics’ if gun law goes into effect
Avoid sensitive topics about concealed guns, or risk being shot because you’re interfering with someone’s right to stand their ground. This shit is sickening.
When I graduated high school, I couldn’t wait to see the world and the rest of America. I drove across the country and through much of the Deep South and Texas. Now I know what those places are really like. I wouldn’t set foot there again for any conceivable reason.
Absolutely. Scary places.
Talk badly about guns, get shot.
This will be crazy town in not so long a time
A University of Texas dean just resigned over this issue. After the few remaining sane people have left, only the crazies will remain.
Sounds like the whole Republican Party.
I think I heard of a prof who said his class will be a no go for guns.
In Texas now, that professor would be violating state law.