I think its just a foretaste of things to come.
I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. On August 6, 1985, someone spray painted silhouettes of dead people all over the streets and sidewalks around campus to represent where all the dead bodies would be, if the Cathedral of Learning was ground zero.(40th anniversary of Hiroshima) I remember this, because I was taking summer classes that year and saw it up close and personal. There were plenty of radicals trying to make a statement then, and I’m sure there are even more now.
But, but....I thought it was discriminatory to require anyone to show ID. I KNOW that’s true because Eric Holder and the DOJ have gone to court to try to prove that idea.
In high school in the 1960’s some jamokes playing hooky called in a bomb threat. Our school had a huge cemetery on three sides and a LIRR freight yard on the other. There was only one road that cut through the cemetery and the last stop on an elevated subway (oxymoron, I know) line terminated there, so if you wanted to watch the chaos, you had to go down the road through the cemetery.
Now, it was strictly forbidden to drive a car within one block of our school one hour before or after the start of class. So what do these jamokes do, after sending 3,000 students onto the only street near the school? They drive right down the road, where they are observed by at least 2,995 students and about 100 faculty.
I'm a Pitt alum, and my parents still live in the area. I believe they told me that Jim Quinn, a conservative local radio host, speculated that there was an Occupy connection to these threats. Has anyone else heard this? Are these all just "tests" in preparation for Election Day? Are we about to have OWS commit yet more domestic terrorism?
University of Pittsburgh students and faculty members will now have to present their IDs to enter campus buildings that receive bomb threats...
But not to register or to vote!
Nope its either an attention hound/mental patient or its something that started as one student trying to get out of a test and has snowballed with copycats etc. Either way, whoever they finally catch, regardless of whether they did all of these or just one of them, they are going to not get any leniency.. at this point attempting to be a student at Pitt is a joke.
No backpacks in any building? Are you serious? How do you expect students to be a student if they can’t even carry their books to their classes.
Its not their fault mind you, but its a joke. I’d be demanding a refund, they charge an arm and a leg to go there anymore. What I paid for 4 years about 20 years ago won’t even cover 1 year now.
The rules changes will upset a lot of people. Maybe that is (partially) the point, if there is a current Pitt connection. One problem is the publicity given to this person or persons.
The publicity can be enticing the perp to continue.