Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Universities Now Have "Threat Assessment Teams"?

And they apparently police nerdy posters put up on office doors.  Wow, no wonder higher education costs so much, as the budget has to provide for this highly particular responsibility.

'Firefly' and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus

I used to put all sorts of provocative quotations on the door of my office when I was a philosophy teacher.  My students would even add some of their own to the collage.  That seems to be natural in an educational environment.  Surely, there was some more collegial way in which to address this situation.

[By the way, if you never heard of "Firefly", it was a combination Western and Sci/Fi show on television almost a decade ago that was cancelled after one season.  As is often the case, it has a very loyal following with fans still dressing as the characters when they attend the various comic book and science fiction conventions offered across the country.]