To UT Nobel laureate, campus carry intrudes on faculty rights

[ashling]

http://highered.blog.statesman.com/2016/01/26/to-ut-nobel-laureate-campus-carry-intrudes-on-faculty-rights/

Steven Weinberg won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1979 for his work related to the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle of the universe. On Monday he leafed through a copy of the journal “Physics Today” as he waited to turn to a more prosaic subject: the question of allowing concealed handguns in classrooms at the University of Texas.

Weinberg, who holds the Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science at the university, left no doubt about where he stood when he rose to speak at a meeting of UT’s Faculty Council.

“I will put it into my syllabus that the class is not open to students carrying guns,” he said. “I may wind up in court. I’m willing to accept that possibility.”

Weinberg explained: “Many faculty, including myself, are scared of guns in the hands of students who may violently disagree” with a faculty member’s views. “It’s hard enough to recruit faculty who want to remain on the East or West coast. To tell them they have no power to keep guns out of their classrooms makes it that much harder.”

[longship]

1. Love Weinberg! He's right. R&K nt

[DetlefK]

2. His Nobel Price was about the Electroweak interaction, not the Higgs-boson.

[DhhD]

3. Sunday school teachers in college classes are not afraid to take us back to 1895. Theocracy rules

for religious reconstructionism and the replacement of intellectual realism.

Texas is full of idealistic bull shit. Watching where you step while watching the draw; it is just to much.