You tell em’ appalled. Officials decided to reduce on-campus operations during the convention. That assertion makes no sense. How am I supposed to focus on my classes?”. But as the student I quote in the article says, “I FEEL like I’m being forced out.” And in my estimation, that’s just as serious. What is a university expected to contribute to the city and the region to which it belongs? Because I am a college teacher, about the only thing I can contribute in response to all this frustration and fear is to do what I know to do, which is write, open a discussion, and hope that people will pause and reflect on just what it is we are doing. Terrible things happened and a lot of students got needlessly hurt. Have you thought of the organizations that target universities during these events for publicity? HAHAHA shillls are as funny as they are outrageous. Students are offered alternative housing if they feel uncomfortable living near that many cops. Here’s the issue. This child was raised by spoiled liberal kids and a President that only wants revenge for slavery . Case is not their jurisdiction so they won’t do anything there. At President Snyder’s very lukewarm Q&A session (I attended the first one that happened at noon) she vaguely alluded to the money involved. Case Western Reserve pioneered the early Free-net computer systems, creating the first Free-net, The Cleveland Free-Net, as well as writing the software that drove a majority of those systems, known as FreePort. That’s why students and faculty are worried. Small correction – personal firearms are being kept in the rooms, secured and separate from ammunition. I’m saying that this is how these officers will be used in the context of the convention. We apologize for your inconvenience. I teach at Case and I could certainly figure out how to conduct class without using a classroom on campus. Meanwhile, the annual hajj for Muslims is also in the balance. President Snyder’s decision thus equates to cancelling two weeks of class during the fall or spring semester. Oh one last thought, you can’t name one single time a gun ever shot someone. >A business might behave this way, but a university? It’s 4 days of your life – get over yourself. But everyone needs to do that from the top down. Instead of your entitled complaining, why don’t you think about the reasons behind this decision? Notice I did not call you a piece of shit though I disagreed with you. We need to be reaching out and engaging our community, not bringing in a massive police presence that could very easily escalate tensions on campus and within University Circle and the surrounding area. Story July 20, 2016. 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. You are paying for a service are you not? We have a sitting US president meeting with, and supporting, terrorist groups that ambush and murder police officers, block streets, riot and pillage neighborhoods. Case Western Reserve University: the top-ranked private research university in Ohio and one of the best in the U.S. As a Cleveland native I hope that it will not come to that. America), then go home!”. Imagine my surprise, then, when I learned that not only would CWRU be housing approximately 1,700 riot police in student dormitories during the Republican National Convention, that not only would those police be permitted to store their weapons in student dormitories, and that not only would widespread student opposition to this decision be placated with two milquetoast Q&A sessions – “opportunities to learn,” President Barbara Snyder called them – but that my colleagues and I, with only one week’s notice, would be expected to cancel a week of summer classes in order to accommodate the quartering of the paramilitary force descending on Cleveland to police the city during the convention. The City and/or the Feds likely gave CWRU little choice over opening their dorms for this purpose, and I’m sure others were put in the same position. I’ve also heard that the city intends to reimburse the university for costs it will incur this week, but that the odds of turning a profit are very slim. In rereading this essay (written over two drafts in the middle of the night while I lay awake worrying about my students) I realize that I didn’t make the specifics of the housing situation as clear as I should. Improvise, adapt, and overcome if you’re intellectually smarter and figure out where to have class for a week for a handful of students. Raising these memories is not in any way contrary to supporting police and other security officers. She wrote that officials were planning to take additional steps to enhance campus safety during the convention. They decided to take a break, for one week only, from being an institution of higher learning. ... (Case Western Reserve University) And even if they are permitted to carry inside the dorms, so what? This is untrue. If you don’t like it, call Black Lives Matter for a new roommate or for protection on one of the most crime-ridden campuses in the US! If these “police,” “peace officers,” are anything like or of the same who were imported to Pittsburgh for the 2009 G-20…you can expect civil rights violations, illegal arrests, unwarranted detentions…and general jack-bootedness. Trump was still a joke. This piece should be in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Guns are inanimate objects and don’t shoot people, people shoot people. Even if it doesn’t, they can see what works well, what works poorly, where improvements can be made, what parts are needed and not. If this kind of foolishness had happened during WW2, people would have gotten their @sses beat, told to grow up and deal with it. I wonder if someone in Philadelphia will write a piece of crap like this when the DNC is held for Hillary Clinton. What’s next, “I know you are but what I am I?”. I can’t recall if there were troops sequestered, but there were military jeeps with machine guns parked there. My morning/afternoon commutes will be severely inconvenienced by road closures. 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. As for officers being housed in the dorms, so what? And I still think Case has wonderful students that go on to do tremendous things. How is this different? She said they werent losing money but not profiting greatly. If this were a good instructor, perhaps the point in all this she would send to her students is how they should all take notice in how the American electoral process works. Yet now they may face an untenable Hobson’s Choice, either prep without the benefit of lecture notes, etc., and take his final in what will no doubt be an academic maelstrom, or call it a day and prepare for an impossible fall semester. Wuhan city in China was shut down on January 23. Not recognizing that is naive. The Cleveland Free-Net was shut down in late 1999, as it had become obsolete. Comments throughout indicate the (predictable) divisiveness of this issue. They’re wonderful people, and I care about them. This is too serious of an issue to me for any murkiness about the facts. I find liberal college professors like the one who wrote this dribble to be elitist blow-hards who are completely out of touch with reality. Cleveland State University's campus will be open but classes will not be held on campus. Right, the police. Bank Tellers do not live at the bank. Wests League Club in Leumeah, in the city's south-west, was closed just moments after the Macarthur Tavern in Campbelltown, also in the south west of Sydney, announced a case this morning. I’d not worry -it’s assuredly not true that no choice was given. Cleveland alone cannot meet that requirement. HOW would that make you feel? I would like to know what the laws governing the University are in regards to this. I really do believe they’re doing what they can. We have seen these terrorist organizations emboldened by imbecilic Democrat “leaders” for years. Downtown workers are being told to work from home for a week. Of course, if anyone feels that I’m missing the standards for an injunction under controlling Sixth Circuit case-law, I’m all ears/. See how much he would want the “riot police” around him. You must have very limited travel experience to make such a claim, “plain and simple”. Get breaking news coverage as events unfold. You’re not the only people being inconvenienced in the City. [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? ". Servers and other personnel at local restaurants do not live inside of strip malls. With all the recent acts of violence and given the thunderous controversy surrounding Trump which promises riots, the federal government has granted the city of Cleveland $50 million for security purposes, a first for such an action. Extremely well written and a great response to a vile decision by the administration. With no due respect, this “professor” is just another prime example of a progressive bleeding heart liberal who is indoctrinating the students and our future, no different than Hitler did to the children of Germany and Austria in the ‘30’s and ‘40’s. And for all I know, some of them might end up serving in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Students: Students who live on campus will receive help in finding another place to stay during the convention. This is ridiculous first of all no one is being forced t leave their dorms they have to option to if they feel uncomfortable which is up to their own discretion. To make matters even more troubling, President Snyder’s email apologizes for “a lack of communication” even as it exaggerates the amount of communication her administration provided. 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? Police to “Protect” campus? Aren’t they here for our protection? "Amid our shock and grief, we also recognize that our city soon will host the Republican National Convention, an event that is expected to draw dozens of protests--and could see a significant degree of conflict.". What example should a university set for the world outside its walls? Knowing that these police will be in attendance helps me feel a little more at ease. PHYSIOLOGY & BIOPHYSICS Campus Location: Robbins Building, E527 2210 Circle Dr. Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Staff: Faculty are encouraged not to come to their office. Changes to campus operations during RNC. Yes? (To be clear, I’m not saying that the police themselves will necessarily escalate tensions. Case Western Suddenly Shuts Down To House Riot Police Anne Trubek 2016-07-13T15:54:14-04:00 July 13, 2016 | Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) prides itself on being the leading research university in Northeast Ohio. Buildings: The library and Veale athletic and recreation center will be closed but the university center will remain open. I read your post and felt it was written by someone upset about things. I want them to be safe and to receive the education they deserve. Oh please- you were called in to do damage control. This is a police totalitarian state, plain and simple. Admittedly, students aren’t being forced out of their dorms. This is nothing more than rumor, however, and I only include it to clarify that I am not accusing the CWRU administration of any financial malfeasance. This gives us the time delay from an infection to become a diagnosed and counted case as the shutdown increased the social distance and lowered the number of new infections. Last time I checked, this was a democratic cornerstone and as such often praised to be quintessentially “American”. Classes at the Metropolitan Campus will be held off-site. Their jobs are revolved around downtown. I would like all of you to consider the mayhem and murder of just one crazy mad truck driver in Nice yesterday. We should not be obliged to do jack for the local or federal government! Since the risks these measures are being taken to reduce (supposedly) are remote in themselves, it’s no clear improvement to anyone’s safety to ask everyone to attend classes elsewhere, let alone to move off-campus. Thanks again for your note. There’s little that the administration does that makes me proud to have a degree from Case. So no, nobody is forcing the paying undergraduate out of their dorms. Why is it anathema to sympathize with students who paid for summer classes and housing and are losing out in 12.5% of what they paid for? This was the first new case in 19 days for the state. To the CWRU teacher who wrote this wrote this: I am a recent CWRU graduate and a soon-to-be grad student. This is the end result . A warrant officer at Athlone police station in Cape Town has tested positive for Covid-19, the first confirmed case of a police officer in the Western Cape. This is called being an active civic leader during one of the most important elements of the USA’s democratic process. NOT from the police staying on our campus, because, let’s be honest, they are not here to harm you – they are here to protect the protesters at the RNC. Meet the Student Fighting Case Western U. for Shutting Down Campus to House 1,900 Police Officers. If you’ve taught, you know the author is correct. The student are collateral damage…with little to no recourse….but I hope many choose otherwise. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact help@case.edu. I hope the CWRU will also rise to the occasion. They are sworn peace officers. 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. One of my brothers is a year from graduating. So when I say “riot police,” I’m not saying that pejoratively, as though that’s their identity. Nor is there any indoctrination. But Snyder admitted that "in answering the city's convention request, we failed to give adequate consideration to the impact the decision would have on members of our community--in particular students staying in residence halls near the buildings housing the officers.". No student is being expelled. The financial details are shrouded in mystery, and what little information I could find suggests that the university donated the housing when the city came calling. Make no mistake, the 1700 officers and 200 national guardsmen/guardswomen who are on campus are the people who will be specifically responding to quell riots. Hopefully, this one-week, minor disruption to life on campus will serve to prepare students for real world experiences. What is a university’s obligation to teaching and to research, to the cultivation of critical inquiry and to the perpetuation of knowledge, wherever such knowledge may lead? As a recent grad (2015) from Case, I currently live downtown. Source: CWRU-Daily The Case Email Newsletter I saw it first hand. Just for clarification, because you obviously need it, domestic emeries means a tyrannically government, just like the lawless one we have (no charges for Hillary) now. And, a University is absolutely a business, to say otherwise is quite naive. The vast majority of robberies are never solved. The primarily African American population right next to the university in East Cleveland and the African American students at CWRU. It was ugly and embarrassing and despicable here, and, you know what?…not a damned thing happened to any of them for violating law and principle. Mailing Address: 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-4970 Admittedly, students aren’t being forced out of their dorms. Closing the university sends the wrong message to the community about our commitment to peaceful coexistence with and tolerance of people holding dissenting views or conflicting concerns. Only a profoundly stupid idiot would not understand the need for additional police and only a dickhead would throw himself behind the wheel and ‘protest’ against the 20 and 21st centuries. Colleges and universities are always looking for ways to squeeze a bit of revenue out of their facilities in the summer and the students will pay tuition, whether classes are held or not. Another student observed: “I’ve been given 24 hours to decide where I am going to live next week. There are several points in this comment that I wish you’d made in the original article, but mainly I think venting about the inconvenience to you and the students, rather than about the target CWRU now has on it, diluted the real issue, at least in my opinion. [/blocktext]I could complain, on behalf of my students, that this surprise closure is costing each of them $345 in wasted tuition money, per class. Despite popular bipartisan calls for the country to stand together, we seem to be separating everyone. The health department says there is one case of coronavirus in Washington County. I used to walk past them as a grad student on my way to the White building. These “reduced instructional operations,” to use the Orwellian language being deployed by university officials, place on faculty and students the entire burden of cleaning up the mess the administration has handed them. My problem is with the sheer quantity, for starters, and with the way they are being used in the context of a university campus while classes are still in session. Check it out. Thanks for the housing during RNC. On 17 May, Victoria announced two further business sites had been shut down due to a suspected case at each. I am grateful that my University is helping the police protect the city of Cleveland during this high risk event, but I understand the concern of some students taking into consideration our neighboring communities. The lack of a prior contingency plan for these classes and their current restructuring is simply negligent. Unless you’re a student, of course. Instead, I want to use this occasion to ask a more basic question. President Donald Trump's plan to sue Pennsylvania in federal court to determine how the state conducts mail-in voting has been effectively shut down by a US district court judge. I am nervous that the protesting at this event will spiral out of control and I have concern for my own personal safety as well as other bystanders living here downtown that I believe many people are forgetting about. [blocktext align=”right”]Thank you for your burdensome tuition bill, my students have been told. Or is your college/university not worth paying? The only thing missing was air conditioning in the dorms.