The University of North Dakota has finally implemented their “new security rules and procedures”.
Take a guess at what is not on the list: Yep, armed faculty or students.
A new security system, in the aftermath of the 32 people killed by a student gunman last year at Virginia Tech, went online over the weekend on North Dakota’s colleges and universities campuses.
According to UND Police Chief Duane Czapiewski,
NotiFind will allow UND officials to notify students, faculty and staff of any crisis, such as a shooting or a fire, through e-mail, text-messages and phone calls.
Faculty and staff are required to sign up for the network; students can opt out. The cost of the student’s registration is being picked up by UND, Czapiewski said.
The system became active over the weekend and by Tuesday, 55 percent of the students statewide had signed up, and 26 percent of faculty and staff, he said.
Wow! A grand total of 26% of the faculty, who are required to sign up for the system, have actually done so in a week.
I’m sure that the students there feel so much safer now!
Yeah, not really.
But Jae Baker, a senior majoring in accounting who started Females For Firearms on campus last October, criticized the new system Tuesday during a day she publicized her student group.
“I feel it’s another attempt at an illusion of proper security,†Baker said, citing the April 2007 case, in which a mad student shot to death 32 students on campus, then killed himself. Her group, assisted by Young Americans For Freedom, drew 32 chalk outlines on sidewalks across campus Tuesday to publicize the need for allowing students to bear arms.
The NotiFind system appears that it would be too little, too late, if the worst happened, Baker said. She has protested UND’s policy of banning all weapons on campus as a violation of her own right to defend herself, as well as to carry a gun.
“I can’t even have pepper spray in my purse,†she said. She knows of women who have been assaulted near campus and thinks UND needs to allow students, faculty and staff to carry weapons if they choose.
She also criticized a new policy this semester outlawing students keeping weapons in their on-campus apartments.
So the new policy is even more disarming than the old policy. And again, not eve 1/3 of the faculty, who are required to sign up for the system, have done so.
I think this isn’t really a news report. It is more like an advertisement for mass murderers.
Found via the Say Anything blog