BREAKING: UT History Prof Advocates Defiance, And an Alum Responds With a Proposal

By Dan Zimmerman

Some members of the University of Texas – Austin faculty aren’t happy about the impending change in state law that will allow open carry in the classroom. They just received the following call to action from UT history prof Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra:

Dear Colleagues,

I am member of the History Department. For the last 2 weeks many colleagues in the humanities have begun to organize against the implementation of campus carry. As of 1 August, 2016, all state universities in Texas will allow staff, students (over 21), faculty and visitors to carry concealed guns in buildings (it is now legal to carry concealed guns into public, open spaces on campuses). We have initiated two campaigns that we hope you will consider joining (please see email by GunFree-UT), but particularly the statement by faculty refusing teaching in classrooms where guns are allowed (we have already 350 faculty who have signed) . . .

This law, which passed at the very last minute of the 2015 legislative session after the negotiation of some restrictions, allows for each university to designate some buildings as gun-free. So each university has set up commissions to contrive various formulas on how to …Read the Rest

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