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Tag: guns
News Roundup
Campus Police at Portland State Will No Longer Carry Guns
Portland State University’s police force will no longer carry guns while patrolling campus, starting this fall, reports Newsweek. Students at the university have long demanded that the school disarm its police, especially after campus police fatally shot Jason Washington, a Black U.S. postal service worker and Navy veteran, in 2018. Now, amid summer-long protests against […]
August 16, 2020
Students
Court: Portland State Student Wrongfully Booted over Threat
PORTLAND, Ore. ― The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that Portland State University wrongfully expelled a graduate student who was accused of threatening violence. The university banned Henry Liu from campus four years ago after a classmate reported to police that the student was upset with a professor and talked about guns in the […]
September 28, 2016
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Advocates for Gun Control Call for Massive March in D.C.
In the wake of the gun massacre in Orlando, several civil rights and labor organizations are calling for a massive march in the nation’s capital later this summer to call attention to the issue of gun control.
June 28, 2016
News Roundup
Syracuse University Safety Officer Disciplined for Losing 4 Shotguns
SYRACUSE, N.Y. ― A Syracuse University campus security officer who’s a firearms instructor has been disciplined for losing four shotguns that fell out of a vehicle after a training session. The chief of the university’s Department of Public Safety said Monday that the officer responsible for securing the firearms after the session at a Syracuse-area […]
February 2, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Florida Atlantic Officially Fires Professor Who Questioned Sandy Hook
BOCA RATON, Fla. ― A Florida college has officially fired a professor who claimed the massacre of children at a Connecticut elementary school was staged. Florida Atlantic University said in a release that School of Communication and Multimedia Studies professor James Tracy was served a notice of termination Tuesday. The school sent Tracy a notice […]
January 6, 2016
HBCUs
Texas Attorney General: Banning Guns in College Dorms Violates New Law
AUSTIN, Texas ― The attorney general of Texas said late Monday that banning guns in college dorm rooms violates the state’s newly approved “campus carry” law, and also opined on setting limits for carrying weapons onto public school grounds and into multiuse government buildings. Republican Ken Paxton’s flurry of nonbinding opinions addressed many much-watched issues, […]
December 22, 2015
Asian American Pacific Islander
Terrorist Fear Emerges as Biggest Threat to Diversity on Campus and Our Nation
America is getting even crazier than you thought. It’s gripped by an irrational fear.
December 6, 2015
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