How Guns on Campus Could Change What Texas Teaches
Katie Reilly
12:29 PM ET Updated: 2:18 PM ET
College professors and administrators across Texas are grappling with how to handle the state’s controversial new campus-carry law, with some even suggesting instructors remove controversial content from their lessons to avoid riling up armed students.
As professors weigh how to respond to the law—which will allow Texans with concealed handgun licenses to carry guns on public university campuses when it takes effect in August—faculty members from about 40 universities around the state were set to gather Friday evening for the twice-annual Texas Council of Faculty Senates meeting. The law was sure to be a hot topic.
One professor who planned to raise the issue there is Jonathan Snow, a geochemistry professor and Faculty Senate president at the University of Houston, who recently sparked debate at a faculty forum at his own school when he suggested professors consider changing their curricula to avoid controversial subjects in the wake of the new law. One slide of the presentation stated that professors might want to “be careful discussing sensitive topics,” “drop certain topics from your curriculum,” “not ‘go there’ if you sense anger” and “limit student access off hours.” Snow said the slide is an example of the “chilling effect” that professors worry the law will have.
“I think the ability to have a free and open intellectual discourse, candid even with brazen emotions—that shouldn’t be at the cost of having to think in the back of your mind, ‘Alright, where is this going? Is there somebody in my classroom who is carrying a tool whose purpose is to end human life?’” Snow said ...
http://time.com/4237638/campus-carry-texas-universities/
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