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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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October 15, 2006
British Universities Told to Spy on 'Asian-Looking' Students and Muslim Extremists
The British government believes that the country’s universities have become “fertile recruiting grounds” for terrorists and has drawn up a series of proposals, designed to crack down on extremism, that will be sent to higher-education institutions before the end of the year.
According to one newspaper, The Guardian, which has seen an 18-page report describing the proposals, “lecturers and university staff across Britain are to be asked to spy on ‘Asian-looking’ and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence.” The proposals have been drawn up by the Department for Education and Skills, and the document reportedly acknowledges that many universities will have concerns about passing information to special antiterrorist law-enforcement officials.
In the aftermath of terrorist bombings in London in July 2005, the British government told universities to “identify and confront” extremists on their campuses. That announcement drew protests from Muslims and others who said it foreshadowed a new McCarthyism in Britain. The universities subsequently received specific guidelines on their obligations to combat extremism on their campuses. The new proposals would seem to intensify that earlier set of rules.
Drummond Bone, president of Universities UK, a group representing the vice chancellors of British universities, described the guidelines as both “unreasonable” and “counterproductive.” “It is not constructive for government to suggest universities are complacent or passive about extremism,” he said.
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any thing to oust terrorists.
I would not speak to any one wearing a face mask of any kind
— Robert Harradine Oct 17, 05:36 AM #