A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students

[SecularMotion]

A presentation at a faculty forum at the University of Houston that circulated Tuesday on Twitter has raised pressing questions about how professors will adapt to Texas’ controversial new campus-carry law.

A PowerPoint slide in the presentation, arranged by the president of the central campus’s Faculty Senate, Jonathan Snow, provides suggestions for faculty members to alter their behavior, among other things, when the law takes effect for all four-year public colleges in the state, on August 1.

Opponents of the law, which will allow people with concealed-handgun permits to carry their weapons into public-university buildings, seized on the image as proof that many professors will feel they need to change their curricula or tiptoe around emotionally volatile students for fear of attack.

In a statement, the university said the slide and presentation were not endorsed by the university. Houston has created a 15-member working group that is crafting an official policy, which is expected to be released in the next week.

http://chronicle.com/article/A-PowerPoint-Slide-Advises/235418

[Fairgo]

1. Never happen in Australia

Occupational Heath and Safety would not allow it.

[beevul]

2. "Delicate flowers"

[friendly_iconoclast]

4. It's just not a real moral panic if someone doesn't panic

[ileus]

3. powerpoint hyperbole....by johnny skeert snow.

another "it's better to be a victim" drive by article peddled to the gullible.

[TeddyR]

5. Makes me wonder

If college faculty, or at least college leadership, isn't overreacting

[friendly_iconoclast]

6. This shows that educated people are just as susceptible to panic-mongering as anyone else

Certainly, no one has shown that there's a danger to CCW on college campuses

[ManiacJoe]

7. What armed students?

The vast majority of the students are prohibited by the 21 age limit. Of the traditional students, only the older half of the senior class is even eligible to carry.

Campus carry is not about the students. It is about the faculty and staff.

[virginia mountainman]

9. Don't let some facts..

Screw up perfectly some good "poutrage".

[DashOneBravo]

8. I'm guessing here

But I'd bet the PowerPoint presentation was provided by the same group that advocates for rape whistles, vomiting and pissing on oneself as a method of self defense.

[Eleanors38]

10. A professor of "isotope geochemistry" is worried about controvery. What she said.

When teaching government at a local com college, I STARTED with controversy, Anything to keep the class awake. Abortion rulings, religious affairs, porno & free speech, drug laws, radical thought -- Hell, my unit on Guns and 2A was mild stuff.