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I hope my body armor gets here soon or I might have to call in
sick when the 1st arrives. I wonder if I should bring a flashbang
on Tuesday to distract people if I encounter a firefight walking
from the parking lot to my office.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 06/29/2014 05:40 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of
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<h1 style="font-size: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;
clear: both; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(17, 17,
17); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color:
rgb(255, 255, 255);">Idaho campus gun law takes
effect Tuesday</h1>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">University
of Idaho professor Jack Sullivan feels he has a
contractual obligation to maintain a safe and
nurturing classroom – that’s why he plans to put
on his syllabus that no firearms, concealed or
otherwise, will be permitted in his classes.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The
biological sciences educator said he’s not sure if
that’s legal, but it’s what he feels is right.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sullivan
isn’t opposed to guns and has never lived in a
gun-free home. He grew up hunting with his family
and still remembers the first firearm he
purchased. But, he said, allowing guns on campus
contradicts the best practices of education –
something he and others have dedicated their
careers to learning.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible !important;"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That’s
the difference, he said, between the professors in
classrooms and the legislators at the Statehouse
who voted last session to approve the guns on
campus law that goes into effect Tuesday.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The
law exempts retired law enforcement officers and
people who have enhanced concealed-carry permits
from regulations that prohibit firearms on college
and university campuses.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It
came despite unanimous opposition from the
presidents at the state’s institutions of higher
education and the Idaho State Board of Education.
As the law becomes a reality, faculty at both the
UI in Moscow and Lewis-Clark State College in
Lewiston are left with more concerns than answers.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I
still don’t know what’s permitted with the law
that’s been passed, so I don’t know what my
reaction should be,” said Sullivan, who has worked
at UI since 1997.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matt
Dorschel, UI public safety and security executive
director, said the university does not plan to
hire any more security officers or arm them in
preparation for the law.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dorschel
served as head of the university task force
created to provide recommendations and guidance to
faculty and students on how to handle the
policy changes.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dorschel
said the task force met weekly but did not believe
arming security officers was a necessary action,
unlike Idaho State University, which is planning
to arm its security staff. He did say, however,
that UI will be adding elements on how to respond
to armed individuals into its training.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The
university works closely with the Moscow Police
Department, which has quick response times to
provide aid on campus, Dorschel said. The MPD also
runs the on-campus firearm storage facility, which
will be relocated to the campus security office.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite
repeated attempts, the Tribune was unable to
locate anyone on either the UI or LCSC campuses
who supports the new law.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LCSC
chemistry professor Rachel Jameton doesn’t know
how to handle two conflicting mandates she has for
her laboratory, which contains organic solvents,
oxidants and other flammable chemicals. She said
the college is required by the state to have a
chemical safety plan that keeps such materials in
a secure environment.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We
keep flame away from them,” she said.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now
the state has mandated that some people can bring
guns into the same environment. The laboratory
operates in a manner to reduce the risk of
mishaps, she said, but adding a gun into the mix
runs the risk of an accidental discharge.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As
of now, she plans to continue prohibiting firearms
in the lab.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stephan
Flores, a UI associate professor in English, said
he fears that the knowledge of an armed student in
class could deter free and open communication,
“which is vital to education.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trish
Hartzell, UI faculty senate chairwoman, said the
issue Flores raises, combined with living in close
quarters and various hormones that go with being a
young adult, can all be exacerbated by having a
gun in the mix.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I
think our job as faculty is to protect students
and I just don’t think we need guns on campus,”
she said.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dorschel
said options that faculty are looking into, such
as hanging signs outside classrooms prohibiting
firearms, are a direct violation of the policy.
Although he said he does not have the authority to
tell employees what they can and cannot do in
terms of signs, the law clearly states firearms
are allowed inside classes.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jameton
said a student she once worked with had a moment
of weakness in which he felt he was out of
options. She was able to talk with him and resolve
the situation. But, she said, what if a similar
instance were to happen now at LCSC and the
student involved had a gun?</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jodie
Nicotra, a UI English professor, said she is
concerned for the added responsibility that will
be placed on graduate assistants. At UI,
first-year English classes are taught by
graduate students.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So
I worry that people who are teaching for the first
time, in many cases, just don’t have the
experience to manage this (law),” she said.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sullivan
said he also fears that if there is a shooting on
campus, more guns could lead to more shots fired
and more casualties. It also creates an issue for
law enforcement if there are multiple shooters
without an indication of the true perpetrators.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 21px; overflow: visible
!important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So
that’s the argument – the only thing that stops a
bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,”
Sullivan said. “The issue is too complicated for
sound bites like that.”</span></p>
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auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p>
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About 300
people gather on the Statehouse steps in Boise in
February to protest the bill seeking to allow
concealed weapons on the state’s college campuses.
The bill eventually passed and was signed into law.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can
have with your pants on)</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div>
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255, 0);"><br>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are
telling you still.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as
you kill,</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the
hill."</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);"><br>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div>
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