I read your post and felt it was written by someone upset about things. It’s just a matter of what I consider (and you may disagree) to be good judgment during difficult times. "Nevertheless, given the current national context, I regret that I described such behavior as 'profiling,' and that I was not more careful with my language," she wrote Monday. I’m sure many of you are arguing “well, if the police weren’t on our campus we wouldn’t have this problem.” Are you sure about that? Actually, a university such as CWRU is unequivocally not a business, which seems to me a fundamental point the author is trying to make. 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. Case Western Reserve University has decided to cancel classes and other activities on campus during the Republican National Convention. He's been able to party constantly, and actually turned down multiple ivies for Case (mainly money) and currently has a 140k job offer Case kids are down … Oh, goodness. President Barbara Snyder held two forums on campus July 6 after students and faculty voiced concerns over housing the police. Last week, the FBI arrested 29 year old Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind the online marketplace Silk Road, after two years of investigations and undercover purchases. 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. Do we want it broadcast all over the world that the city of Cleveland was ill prepared to host such an event? TBD. 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. Of course you would – you’d expect accommodations and/or a refund. Cleveland… what a joke. I’m guessing it’s a professor in gender or ethnic studies of some sort. As a collective “global citizen”, we are failing to vote, and not for lack of desire, but due to oligarchic disenfranchisement. Servers and other personnel at local restaurants do not live inside of strip malls. What does it symbolize when a university library closes while security forces store firearms and pepper spray in dorms, weapons that will likely be used against next week’s demonstrators—some of whom, I fear, might be my students? This is so blown out of proportion it’s sad. CWRU likely was not forced to quarter the police, they were likely offered a financial sum in return. This is a primary argument against other system-wide “minor inconveniences” like Daylight Savings Time observation: they increase more mundane risks like traffic accidents. "The deadly shootings last week in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas have dramatically intensified our national conversation involving race, law enforcement and the best paths to justice, fairness and safety for all," she wrote. Officials decided to reduce on-campus operations during the convention. Postal service employees cannot work from home FedEx and UPS truck drivers cannot work from home Servers and other personnel at local restaurants cannot work from home Retail cashiers and employees cannot work from home Cultural venues will be open and staff – employees cannot work from home Get it? If students and faculty are too ignorant (or selfish) to understand these points, then they should not be students or faculty members at CWRU. We had to adapt. Something about the quartering of soldiers in homes comes back to me. As an advisor for a Case sorority, we have known for months that the college was going to use our sorority house to house someone during the convention in our (University owned) house. On a lighter note I have heard that Case is making a decent amount coin from this deal and hey if it will keep those donation calls away for a little bit I’m all for it! That’s why I wrote this essay. Did any of you ever once consider that this was done for your protection? Camps: Education camps for middle and high school students will not be held on campus. When we claim to fear for their safety even though we ourselves have created the conditions causing us to fear for their safety? It was an interesting lesson in flexibility, individual learning and getting out tuitions worth. In this country, we still have mechanisms to improve upon our challenges, where in other countries this is absolutely not the case, and anyone from one of the very few I mentioned would look at the US and your comment and be incapable of reconciling the two. The latest case is a Darwin woman in her 50s who tested positive on … They should have realized much earlier that there was a potential for the campus to become under threat during the RNC even without housing officers on campus. How are these kids “to be made whole.” The more I think of it, this is may be the stuff of an IDEA based TRO in U.S. District Court. I wonder how much of the – for lack of a better term – security precautions are due to housing policemen per se and how much is due to the RNC itself. They’re just being completely overhauled and compromised. These body-armored, face-shielded, overtime-paid “mercenaries” will be champing at the bit to wield a baton and spray their pepper. Guns are inanimate objects and don’t shoot people, people shoot people. The Malek Fahd Islamic School, in … Woops its realistically closed. This is a police totalitarian state, plain and simple. Case Western Reserve University campus to shut down during GOP convention. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (each updated 1/1/20). Pay attention class, an adult has entered the discussion. Moreover, what are we teaching our students when we displace them from their dorms? They are not allowed to “stockpile” arms in the dorms. You are paying for a service are you not? My morning/afternoon commutes will be severely inconvenienced by road closures. If my students learn nothing else from this failure of university leadership, I hope it will be this: that they will understand how their education exceeds the artificial boundaries of brick and mortar buildings, of tuition payments, of majors, minors, and gen ed requirements, and of their own abstracted desire to capitalize on their investment in the form of a lucrative career. open-and-shut case phrase. Perhaps this is from a tenure-track professor who thinks that this completely false diatribe attacking the University’s president will hurt her chances of getting tenured. The changes are now reflected in the third paragraph. Until that time, ARNG units and personnel fall under the command of each state’s government. Both professors and students should be ashamed of themselves for the nasty vitriol they have spewed since the decision was made to soft close the university during the RNC. On Monday night CWRU posted an online notice titled "Changes to campus operations during RNC. Unless CWRU changed their status from a private non-profit to a for-profit university (like Trump University), then it is most certainly not a “business.” What would be naive not to recognize is that the executive of the institution chooses to treat it like one while circumventing (or outright ignoring) the university’s supposed principles shared governance. The students still have to live somewhere even if they are not on campus. We should not be obliged to do jack for the local or federal government! A university is not a business. Despite popular bipartisan calls for the country to stand together, we seem to be separating everyone. Get breaking news coverage as events unfold. So where is the City supposed to house those additional 700 officers? As the number of new coronavirus cases surges each day in many parts of the country, some states are hitting pause … This is the end result . And of course, we in Ohio should never forget what happened at Kent State back in the 1960s. Postal service do not live at the post office. Cultural venue employees do not live at the Botanical Gardens. As for officers being housed in the dorms, so what? I’d prefer that CWRU experience minor “inconveniences” so that Cleveland has the necessary human power to protect the City during the RNC. A follow up notice from the university explains: “The only change to the existing practice is that these classes do not take place on our campus during those days.” Furthermore, the notice continues, “the educational experience may take place at a different time, place or manner, but the learning will still take place.” This attempt to dodge the accusation I am making—that CWRU is cancelling classes—is perfunctory at best. Additionally, given Cleveland PD’s standing formal complaints and federal investigations into a history of racial profiling issues there is definitely reasons to be concerned over how these situations will be handled by those officers who are functionally working as deputies of Cleveland PD. Terrible things happened and a lot of students got needlessly hurt. Case is dominantly STEM – what about students that need to be in labs? Some are CWRU alumni and smarter then this anonymous professor. [blocktext align=”left”]What does it symbolize when a university library closes while security forces store firearms and pepper spray in dorms, weapons that will likely be used against next week’s demonstrators—some of whom, I fear, might be my students? The size of the police force being quartered on campus is larger than one third of the entire undergraduate student body. To be fair, Case hosts various groups every summer in the dorms. That’s why students and faculty are worried. Whenever police officers wear riot gear to deal with massive protests in tense political situations, we generally use the term “riot police.” (But given your potent reaction, and the reaction of a few others — which truly does take me by surprise — I will be more cautious about using this terminology in the future.). I just want to extend my deepest gratitude to the author. Case Western Reserve University offers a range of opportunities for you to get to know our campus, students, faculty and admission staff online. Just a quick note you might also have wanted to point out the 4 week class session being interrupted by losing a 1/4 of its teaching time as well. Just to provide a few examples. 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. For one class, that’s 10 hours of class meetings out of 80 total hours. As a Cleveland resident I am not happy regarding the need for riot police ( and storm trooper is intended as an inflamitort term) but guess in the long run I am glad they are here. This piece, which so emphatically puts the students and their education first (as it should be! During President Snyder’s Q&A session, she explictly mentioned that these officers’ role is to halt sudden disturbances as a result of the RNC and could be called upon at any time (responding to a question of when we might see them more actively on campus). Are only white, Christian men allowed to open-carry without being shot by police? I hope it opens us all up for discussions and empathy for others. If you feel compelled to go downtown and make life unpleasant for everybody I hope that the least you experience causes you great pain and loss. CWRU students are not being forced out of the dorms. 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