To answer your response beginning with “Umm… I’m not sure you understand the point you just responded to….”. ), makes me proud to be a part of the CWRU community. Read the latest news stories from Cape Town and the rest of the Western Cape region. I wonder if someone in Philadelphia will write a piece of crap like this when the DNC is held for Hillary Clinton. ... Students at Case Western … Way to exemplify all the asinine vitriol we look forward to hosting downtown. "Case Western" actually sounds hella good to recruiters. Should we talk about how we got to this place and what we need to do about it now. The requirement for additional police was actually mandated by federal agencies such as the Secret Service and DHS. And the National Guard are here to protect the police! Students “aren’t being forced off campus” in the same way that classes “aren’t being cancelled.” They are just being strongly, firmly advised to take the alternative housing being offered by the university with almost no notice. This cry-baby rant proves it. ", "Last week's tragedies have horrified us all and raised profound questions for our country," the notice said. Here’s the issue. But as the student I quote in the article says, “I FEEL like I’m being forced out.” And in my estimation, that’s just as serious. Finally found something sensible in this juvenile article, even though it was an author’s follow-on comment. A university is not a business. Furthermore, weapons of any kind are prohibited in campus buildings (Every dorm has this notice banning all weapons), a policy which has apparently been lifted. Cleveland alone cannot meet that requirement. I honestly couldn’t care less that the RNC is being hosted here and I certainly am disgusted with Trump. 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. If you wonder why faculty, staff, or students might prefer anonymity, take a look at how President Snyder and Provost Baeslack handled the former law school dean. The size of the police force being quartered on campus is larger than one third of the entire undergraduate student body. We were informed several months ago that police would be staying on campus and initially there nobody cared because universities provide housing during large events all the time. Consider the plight of very real summer school students at CWRU, with IDEA accommodations for learning difference, who receive extra time in which to take exams, prepared lecture notes and dispensation from the minimum credit loads for full-time students. Cleveland… what a joke. These students were taking summer school classes, in part, so they wouldn’t have to carry 14 – 16 units in the fall. However, that being said, there have been numerous threats towards the RNC that they will “riot” not simply just protest. [/blocktext]A week of cancelled classes may not sound too bad, but consider that the summer sessions last only eight weeks. Sounds like someone really needs a vacation….. I used to walk past them as a grad student on my way to the White building. 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 … Actually, a university such as CWRU is unequivocally not a business, which seems to me a fundamental point the author is trying to make. Many students rely on university housing over the summer and employment for financial security (the University thankfully has addressed this and is compensating students who will be losing work hours). As a Cleveland native I hope that it will not come to that. Ah, finally, the Voice of Reason. Wests League Club in Leumeah, in the city's south-west, was closed just moments after the Macarthur Tavern in Campbelltown, also in the south west of Sydney, announced a case this morning. Woops its realistically closed. Since the risks these measures are being taken to reduce (supposedly) are remote in themselves, it’s no clear improvement to anyone’s safety to ask everyone to attend classes elsewhere, let alone to move off-campus. The university will offer counseling and support services and a "safe space" for those who want to express their concerns about housing police on campus and the convention. Just for clarification, because you obviously need it, domestic emeries means a tyrannically government, just like the lawless one we have (no charges for Hillary) now. That is why additional police and the Ohio National Guard have been summoned to Cleveland and put up in empty dorms at CWRU. Meanwhile, the annual hajj for Muslims is also in the balance. This piece, which so emphatically puts the students and their education first (as it should be! "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.". This is a disappointing response. (think PETA) The police are here, and there is nothing wrong with them staying in EMPTY dorm rooms to help PROTECT our city and citizens. Just take a moment to re-read that last sentence and think about what it actually says. For one, like your life is so hectic, you teach (indoctrinate) one class a semester (3 days a week) and now your you’re so inconvenienced because one week of your summer class is interrupted. Staff, after consulting with their supervisors, will likely work off-site as well. As far as research being interrupted, any controversial research was going to be unofficially halted during the RNC before the recent drama arose. Overall this situation was NOT the fault of CWRU administration, however this has been grossly mishandled and shows a serious lack of foresight by the administration. As stated in WIkipedia, better thing would be to use this Linux TRESOR approach, so that keys are in CPU and not RAM. It was her response to a student asking/accusing her of whether or not the university stood to profit from the decision. Another student observed: “I’ve been given 24 hours to decide where I am going to live next week. Of course, if anyone feels that I’m missing the standards for an injunction under controlling Sixth Circuit case-law, I’m all ears/. This was the first new case in 19 days for the state. 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. The action, announced late Monday, was taken to ease ongoing concerns over housing 1,700 police officers and 200 members of the Ohio National Guard during the four-day event, especially following last week's deaths of two black men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota and the killing of five Dallas police officers. If these “police,” “peace officers,” are anything like or of the same who were imported to Pittsburgh for the 2009 G-20…you can expect civil rights violations, illegal arrests, unwarranted detentions…and general jack-bootedness. The forums leading research university in Ohio and one of our political process live campus! Snyder stated that their assigned riot gear would be kept in a separate Location off-campus the or. 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