Monday, May 14, 2007

Inappropriate Dissent on a College Campus

In society today, whenever there is a tragedy, like the Virginia Tech shootings, you can be fairly certain a coterie of counselors will be hustled in to soothe the burdened souls of the affected.

While mass counseling may currently be the panacea of choice; evidently college students do not have extended emotional support from friends and family any longer; what happens if you are a student at a college and find yourself in disagreement with the administrators over whether counseling, or carrying a concealed weapon, would more effectively make students feel safer, and state so in an email to the college administrators?

If you attend Hamline University, you’ll be placed on interim suspension, and forced to undergo a psychiatric examination, at your own expense mind you, and based on the psych findings, participate in any treatment deemed necessary to ensure that you are as docile as a lamb prior to being authorized to attend classes once again.  This is what has happened to a young man by the name of Troy Scheffler, for expressing himself in the following way to Hamline officials.

Scheffler had a different opinion of how the university should react. Using the email handle “Tough Guy Scheffler,” Troy fired off his response: Counseling wouldn’t make students feel safer, he argued. They needed protection. And the best way to provide it would be for the university to lift its recently implemented prohibition against concealed weapons.

“Ironically, according to a few VA Tech forums, there are plenty of students complaining that this wouldn’t have happened if the school wouldn’t have banned their permits a few months ago,” Scheffler wrote. “I just don’t understand why leftists don’t understand that criminals don’t care about laws; that is why they’re criminals. Maybe this school will reconsider its repression of law-abiding citizens’ rights."

That’s not all Scheffler complained about, though.  In a follow-up email, Scheffler had this to say.

After stewing over the issue for two days, Scheffler sent a second email to University President Linda Hanson, reiterating his condemnation of the concealed carry ban and launching into a flood of complaints about campus diversity initiatives, which he considered reverse discrimination.

“In fact, three out of three students just in my class that are ‘minorities’ are planning on returning to Africa and all three are getting a free education on my dollar,” Scheffler wrote with thinly veiled ire. “Please stop alienating the students who are working hard every day to pay their tuition. Maybe you can instruct your staff on sensitivity towards us ‘privileged white folk.’"

Evidently the lesson, here, for students is docility is the path to enlightment, or possibly death, if a crazed gunman shows up in classes intent on mayhem.  But, don’t fret over it because counselors are standing by.

Story taken from City Pages and is titled Gun Shy. Link to “Gun Shy” via Best of the Web.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/14 at 11:53 AM
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Lack of Superlatives Club

Let’s see, we have the war on terrorism, the Democrats war against anti-military image, the war on drugs, a Conservative Blog Declares ‘War’ on GOP Leaders, the war on poverty, No new cold war, says Rice, thank goodness, because the Global War On Global Warming Heats Up. War, war, war and more wars.

It appears that the newest member of the global war community lack of superlatives club, at least based on the superlatives now being bandied about by George W. Bush, will be U.S dependence on foreign oil, judging from the following headline utilized by Breitbart.com, regarding an upcoming announcement from Bush regarding U.S. gasoline consumption.

Bush to detail plan to curb US ‘addiction’ to foreign oil

The headline I’m looking forward to see is “Ethanol, the New Methadone.”

Posted by John Venlet on 05/14 at 09:47 AM
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