I'm glad I'm done with school and am an old man.
I would never have wanted to put up with this fascista shit the kids of today have to put up with!
"Colleges keep closer watch on students"
"by Jeffrey McMurray, Associated Press | March 29, 2008
LEXINGTON, Ky. - On the agenda: a student who got into a shouting match with a faculty member, one who harassed a female classmate, someone found sleeping in a car, and a student who posted a threat against a professor on Facebook.
Why is the homeless kid in trouble?
In a practice adopted at one college after another since the massacre at Virginia Tech, a University of Kentucky committee of deans, administrators, campus police, and mental health officials has begun meeting regularly to discuss a watch list of troubled students and decide whether they need professional help or should be sent packing. This after pumping the kids full of drugs and such things.
These "threat assessment groups" are aimed at heading off the kind of bloodshed seen at Virginia Tech a year ago and at Northern Illinois University last month.
Yeah, and CUI BONO, huh?
Just more CRAWLING UP YOUR ASSES, kids!
"You've got to be way ahead of the game, so to speak, expect what may be coming. If you're able to identify behaviors early on and get these people assistance, it avoids disruptions in the classrooms and potential violence," said Major Joe Monroe, interim police chief at Kentucky.
The Kentucky panel, called Students of Concern, held its first meeting last week and will convene at least twice a month to talk about students whose strange or disturbing behavior has come to their attention.
Yup, and if a false accusation comes through, like a vindictive complaint or something vituperative, then what?
We got innocents jailed in Gitmo for wrong-place, wrong-time, bounties, neighbors calling in neighbors as terrorists because they don't like them, and with things like the Duke rape case, WTF??
Such committees represent a change in thinking among US college officials, who for a long time were reluctant to share information about students' mental health for fear of violating privacy laws.
"If a student is a danger to himself or others, all the privacy concerns go out the window," said Patricia Terrell, vice president of student affairs, who created the panel.
Terrell shared details of the four discussed cases on the condition that all names and other identifying information be left out.
Among other things, the panel can order a student into counseling or bar him or her from entering a particular building or talking to a certain person. It can also order a judicial hearing that can lead to suspension or expulsion if the student's offense was a violation of the law or school policy.
Although the four cases discussed last week were the ones administrators deemed as needing the most urgent attention, a database listing 26 other student cases has been created, providing fodder for future meetings.
Students are encouraged during their freshman orientation to report suspicious behavior to the dean of students, and university employees all the way down to janitors and cafeteria workers are instructed to tell their supervisors if they see anything.
Stalin would be SO PROUD!!!!!
Virtually every corner of campus is represented in the group's closed-door meetings, including dorm life, academics, counseling, mental health, and police.
"If you look back at the Virginia Tech situation, the aftermath, there were several people who knew that student had problems, but because of privacy and different issues, they didn't talk to others about it," said Lee Todd, UK president.
High schools have been doing this for years because of shootings, but only since Virginia Tech, when a disturbed student gunman killed 32 people and committed suicide, have colleges begun to follow suit, said Mike Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, a campus safety firm.
"They didn't think it was a real threat to them," Dorn said.
Virginia Tech has added a threat assessment team since the massacre there.
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And I'm not even going to get into the concealed-carry issue!
Read the blogs on that one.
The FACTS are IRREFUTABLE!!!!
When you BAN GUNS, then ONLY CRIMINALS HAVE THEM!!!
Boston University, the University of Utah, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and numerous others also have such groups, said Gwendolyn Dungy, executive director of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
Bryan Cloyd, a Virginia Tech accounting professor whose daughter Austin was killed in the rampage, welcomed the efforts to monitor troubled students, but stressed he doesn't want to turn every campus into a "police state."
"We can't afford to overreact," Cloyd said, but "we also can't afford to underreact."
Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech gunman, was ruled a danger to himself in a court hearing in 2005 that resulted from a roommate's call to police after Cho mentioned suicide in an e-mail. He was held overnight at a mental health center off campus and was ordered into outpatient treatment. But he received no follow-up services, despite his sullen behavior and his violence-filled writings.
After a while, you begin to see right through all the propaganda.
News isn't covered in the way it is for no reason, and as FDR said "noting happens by chance in politics."
All this crap is inter-connected.
The Fascist State, the Prison Planet, the Globalists all of it!!
This is BRAINWASHING and CONTROL of CHILDREN, readers?
All this after the government has pumped our kids full of antidepressant drugs!
Mary Bolin-Reece, director of counseling and testing at Kentucky, attends the threat assessment group's meetings but cannot share what she knows or, in most cases, even whether a student has been undergoing counseling. But participants can share information on other possible red flags.
"We always look at, 'Is there a change in the baseline?' " Bolin-Reece said. "The student had previously gotten very good grades, and then there was a drop-off. Something has happened. Is there some shift in their ability to function? If a student is coming to the attention of various parties around the university, we begin to be able to connect the dots."It could be ANYTHING, readers!
Kids have all sorts of time, work, and money pressures on them (at least the ones I know)!
This is about CONSTANT MONITORING and the TOTALITARIAN STATE, folks!
WAKE the FUCK UP, 'murka!!!!
Just to emphasize the point, we had this little episode over the past couple of days, placed just above the last article I evaluated:
"Teens charged in Va. shooting spree"
Another Bluebird, readers?
And THAT DOMINATED the NATION PAGE at the Boston Globe today!
I'm TIRED of the AGENDA-PUSH, folks!
From my cold, dead hands!
