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I agree that a rape or robbery is much more likely to happen, but the media coverage is not near the level of a mass shooting. In fact, I think that some colleges like to suppress crimes that occur on and around campus. It might upset the students and worry their parents.GreezyG wrote:My sister thinks that way too. If you allow people to carry on campus then you would have vigilantes shooting anything that moves.
The odds of you having to defend your life during a mass shooting event are very unlikely.
What is very likely is that you will defend yourself against rape or robbery. They need to focus more on that than a mass shooting as "justification" for carrying on campus, which the Constitution allows.
When you want to prove a point, sometimes you disregard the facts.AJ80 wrote:The description of what Joe Zamudio did during the Tuscon shooting is no where close to how it really went down, at least from how I understand it.
'Nuff said.Richard Arum, whose book "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses" (University of Chicago Press) comes out this month, followed 2,322 traditional-age students from the fall of 2005 to the spring of 2009 and examined testing data and student surveys at a broad range of 24 U.S. colleges and universities, from the highly selective to the less selective.
Forty-five percent of students made no significant improvement in their critical thinking, reasoning or writing skills during the first two years of college, according to the study. After four years, 36 percent showed no significant gains in these so-called "higher order" thinking skills.
Combining the hours spent studying and in class, students devoted less than a fifth of their time each week to academic pursuits. By contrast, students spent 51 percent of their time — or 85 hours a week — socializing or in extracurricular activities.
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Now they call them Universities. They used to called "party schools".Combining the hours spent studying and in class, students devoted less than a fifth of their time each week to academic pursuits. By contrast, students spent 51 percent of their time — or 85 hours a week — socializing or in extracurricular activities.
