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After considerable study, it was determined by Secret Service, Homeland Security, FBI and CPD that an additional 700 law enforcement officers would be required to protect the City during the RNC. CLEVELAND, Ohio - Case Western Reserve University, under fire by students and faculty for housing police on campus during the Republican National Convention, has decided to hold no classes, summer camps or other activities on campus from July 18-21. I say this as a former big game hunter (for subsistence, not trophy) and a gun-owner who wholeheartedly believes in **RESPONSIBLE** gun ownership. None of this could have been predicted months ago. With respect to this:”If students and faculty are too ignorant (or selfish) to understand these points, then they should not be students or faculty members at CWRU.”, This rhetoric is giving off the same stale stench as many xenophobic and backward comments do: “If you don’t like it here (i.e. Oh one last thought, you can’t name one single time a gun ever shot someone. Skip to comments. How is this different? On 4 June, it was announced that the woman had recovered and the state was free of any active cases once again. That is a reductive logic that would essentially label all institutions which operate using money as “businesses,” i.e., police and fire departments are businesses, churches are businesses, the Boy Scouts are a business, and so on. Your response is what is scary about this scenario. Improvise, adapt, and overcome if you’re intellectually smarter and figure out where to have class for a week for a handful of students. I find liberal college professors like the one who wrote this dribble to be elitist blow-hards who are completely out of touch with reality. They’re a much more valuable part of their communities than I am to mine, that’s for sure. In rereading this essay (written over two drafts in the middle of the night while I lay awake worrying about my students) I realize that I didn’t make the specifics of the housing situation as clear as I should. I used to walk past them as a grad student on my way to the White building. "Amid our shock and grief, we also recognize that our city soon will host the Republican National Convention, an event that is expected to draw dozens of protests--and could see a significant degree of conflict.". Let me end by providing some context for my concerns. I don’t disagree with housing the peace officers – a critical event from American democracy came knocking upon our door; it’s perfectly acceptable to provide housing when most of the student body is on break. Meanwhile, the annual hajj for Muslims is also in the balance. Waaaaa your tuition? Please crawl back under your air-conditioned rock. The City and/or the Feds likely gave CWRU little choice over opening their dorms for this purpose, and I’m sure others were put in the same position. Cleveland… what a joke. In an email sent to the entire CWRU community, Snyder explains: “The deadly shootings last week in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas have dramatically intensified our national conversation involving race, law enforcement and the best paths to justice, fairness and safety for all.” This is a savvy rhetorical move. As for the police presence itself, my problem is not with any of the 1,700 out-of-town officers being housed on campus, individually. "The deadly shootings last week in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas have dramatically intensified our national conversation involving race, law enforcement and the best paths to justice, fairness and safety for all," she wrote. Now get off our lawn while more important people come to town. Of course you would – you’d expect accommodations and/or a refund. As a student living on campus myself, I did not feel that the university was forcing me out of my dorm with their manner of communication. Please excuse typos, typing from my phone. This past week’s decisions, the truly laughable “communication,” and the burdens placed on everyone involved have been incredibly frustrating. The financial details are shrouded in mystery, and what little information I could find suggests that the university donated the housing when the city came calling. But it is better for them to keep as many people safe as possible. The only thing missing was air conditioning in the dorms. What’s next, “I know you are but what I am I?”. Trump was still a joke. This directive has been disseminated multiple times. But this write is seemingly more concerned with whining because she objects to the presidential nominee coming to town. PHYSIOLOGY & BIOPHYSICS Campus Location: Robbins Building, E527 2210 Circle Dr. Cleveland, Ohio 44106. That’s why students and faculty are worried. But if so, I’m sure the writer will have the decency to sign it. “While we spoke widely about the decision” to bring these officers to campus, she notes, including “spring meetings at each School, at Faculty Senate…we did not communicate directly with students.” Fair enough. Put another way, while a class action could address common monetary damages, including the university’s failure to deliver 1/8th of the instruction I and other parents have paid for it can only address those common issues that define the class. A follow up notice from the university explains: “The only change to the existing practice is that these classes do not take place on our campus during those days.” Furthermore, the notice continues, “the educational experience may take place at a different time, place or manner, but the learning will still take place.” This attempt to dodge the accusation I am making—that CWRU is cancelling classes—is perfunctory at best. It establishes Snyder’s ethos as a good liberal, concerned not only with student safety but with the deeper aims of social justice. It’s a national convention that will have a US presidential candidate in attendance, do you really think what is happening next week is being controlled by the mayor of Cleveland or the CWRU president? Remember when the Dallas terrorist attack happened, the protesters hid behind police officers. Not the Ghostbusters. Students: Students who live on campus will receive help in finding another place to stay during the convention. They are sworn peace officers. That assertion makes no sense. Only a profoundly stupid idiot would not understand the need for additional police and only a dickhead would throw himself behind the wheel and ‘protest’ against the 20 and 21st centuries. Maybe all you liberals can hold hands and sing Kumbaya and that will create the utopia you so desire. I also notice the writer here is too cowardly to sign this moronic rant. The students still have to live somewhere even if they are not on campus. Is anyone paying attention to why the police are being called in? NOT from the police staying on our campus, because, let’s be honest, they are not here to harm you – they are here to protect the protesters at the RNC. To put this into perspective, CWRU enrolled a total of 4,996 full time undergraduate students during the 2015-16 academic year. I fail to see the wisdom in rebranding our mistakes in order to imply otherwise. Thanks for the housing during RNC. They’re just being completely overhauled and compromised. Do we want it broadcast all over the world that the city of Cleveland was ill prepared to host such an event? If you need a quick explainer, Hotze and Woodfill put out a video explaining why they think the order is unconstitutional. Yes there are evil people out there, always was and always will be. The changes are now reflected in the third paragraph. Yet, oddly enough, ignore the true cases of both. Now get off our lawn while more important people come to town. Changes to campus operations during RNC. Located in Cleveland, Ohio. A warrant officer at Athlone police station in Cape Town has tested positive for Covid-19, the first confirmed case of a police officer in the Western Cape. We all need to chill and open ourselves to differing opinions. To be clear, I do not mean to imply that the university stands to profit off this arrangement. Good for you. CWRU likely was not forced to quarter the police, they were likely offered a financial sum in return. The Cleveland Free-Net was shut down in late 1999, as it had become obsolete. Yet now they may face an untenable Hobson’s Choice, either prep without the benefit of lecture notes, etc., and take his final in what will no doubt be an academic maelstrom, or call it a day and prepare for an impossible fall semester. No one can tell who a “good guy with a gun” is from a “bad guy with a gun.”. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact help@case.edu. Imagine my surprise, then, when I learned that not only would CWRU be housing approximately 1,700 riot police in student dormitories during the Republican National Convention, that not only would those police be permitted to store their weapons in student dormitories, and that not only would widespread student opposition to this decision be placated with two milquetoast Q&A sessions – “opportunities to learn,” President Barbara Snyder called them – but that my colleagues and I, with only one week’s notice, would be expected to cancel a week of summer classes in order to accommodate the quartering of the paramilitary force descending on Cleveland to police the city during the convention. It was ugly and embarrassing and despicable here, and, you know what?…not a damned thing happened to any of them for violating law and principle. ". I’m responding in order to let you know that I’m not in any way anti-police, and that I’m as worried about the safety of law enforcement officers as I am for anyone. As for classroom work suggested to move to online spaces, not all students at CWRU have internet access at home, and/or access to personal computers. If you’ve taught, you know the author is correct. I’m saying that the sudden influx of a massive police presence for a week radically transforms the climate of the campus.) This piece should be in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Thank you, Dankel, for mentioning this. HAHAHA shillls are as funny as they are outrageous. Read the latest news stories from Cape Town and the rest of the Western Cape region. No one is being expelled from their dorms. Look at many recent events where there was a high police presence on university campuses during tense political moments — the University of Pittsburgh during the G20, for example, and UC Davis and UC Berkeley during the (peaceful) Occupy protests of 2011. As a CWRU Student I would like to comment on my experiences during this period of time. Are only white, Christian men allowed to open-carry without being shot by police? It gets worse. Blame the colleges that didn’t have the decency OR the bravery to tell these domesticated Terroist Protest-RIOTERS to cut it out and kick them out! Notice I did not call you a piece of shit though I disagreed with you. At President Snyder’s very lukewarm Q&A session (I attended the first one that happened at noon) she vaguely alluded to the money involved. The primarily African American population right next to the university in East Cleveland and the African American students at CWRU. Even so, they still decided to reduce operations. ), makes me proud to be a part of the CWRU community. The case could be key in deciding how far religious liberties can be tamped down in a time of emergency, particularly if it makes it to the U.S. Supreme Court. I personally am skipping town during the RNC. AlumnusWithStraightFacts’ point stands. It IS the same thing. What credibility do we retain as champions of free and civil idea exchange when we close down a significant forum for the community’s discussion of political issues during the RNC out of fear that even we can’t be civil to our guests? With all due respect, your anger is misdirected. Yes? You’re going to figure out how they can finish requisite work without getting on campus. When I say “ riot police ” and “ paramilitary ” are grossly inaccurate to the presidential nominee coming town... Fewer people on campus, individually summer in the third paragraph States and. 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