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Pennsylvania State Universities Called Out for Quietly Opening Up Campuses to Guns

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In a stellar piece of reporting by Bill Schackner of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, students, faculty, and staff of the 14 university Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and the general public now know that Kutztown University is not alone. According to PASSHE spokesperson Ken Marshall, seven PASSHE universities have all “recently amended their...
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Next Page in Pro-Gun Playbook at KU: Death Threats

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This past week, Kutztown students, faculty and staff were first learning of the university’s new weapons policy which opens the campus to guns. The new policy, according to the Morning Call, will give ”Kutztown more gun freedom than most of the state-owned universities, even more than the sample policy suggested by the state’s attorneys,” despite statements...
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Kutztown University Issues Update on Weapons Policy – Corbett Administration Now at Center of Controversy

Just a few minutes ago, Kutztown University president, Javier Cevallos, issued an update following flurry of news reports that were prompted by Raging Chicken Press’s story about KU’s new weapons policy published yesterday morning. Perhaps the most significant revelation was broken early today by the Allentown-based Morning Call who reported that the directive to...
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Gun Shop

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May 10, 2013

Editor’s Note: After a friend emailed him Raging Chicken Press’s story, “Welcome to Wild West U,” Alan Magee sent us this video to post. He says, “ I made it shortly after the Newtown shootings as a response to NRA efforts to use the tragedy to increase the spread of guns.” And now that we have learned that PA Gov. Tom Corbett directed state universities to open their campuses to guns, we have more organizing to do.

 Gun Shop

 

Gun Shop from Alan Magee on Vimeo.

Welcome to Wild West U: Kutztown University Opens Campus to Guns

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May 9, 2013
Glock U

Just over a week before Kutztown University will welcome the families and friends of soon-to-be graduates, the university has decided to revise a long-standing policy in order to welcome guns onto its 289 acre campus. While the massacre of students and teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT is still fresh...
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Help Save the Arts! Tell Tom Corbett to Fund Public Education

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April 25, 2013
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I would like to thank our friend Colleen from Save the Upper Darby Arts for showing us this video and petition drive.  As you know, when public school budgets are gutted, the first programs to go are the arts, especially in times like today when all administrators care about are the STEMs.  Please watch the video...
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President Obama’s Student Loan Interest Rate Plan: Short term gains with no long term solutions

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April 22, 2013
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Authors note:  This article was cross-posted from the PA Students Voice Blog.   A major issue for college students in the 2012 presidential campaign was the possibility that interest rates on federal subsidized Stafford loans would double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1, 2012.  With student debt hitting $1 trillion and becoming the...
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Newark Students WALK OUT – Today – RIGHT NOW!

I’m not an educator – I just play one while working at the state capital

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April 3, 2013
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Editor’s Note: This was originally published yesterday on @ the chalk face. @ the chalk face endeavors to establish an alternative space to discuss education reform from an entirely progressive perspective. Check out their main blog, their weekly radio show on Blog Talk Radio, and make sure to “like” their Facebook page. Raging Chicken Press readers – especially those...
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In Defense of Public Education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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April 1, 2013
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Over the past month, Millersville University has become riled with frustration and anger. The catalyst for this discontent among the students, faculty and alumni can be traced back to 2011. Governor Tom Corbett, newly sworn into office, proposed the most drastic cuts to a state’s public education system in the country. Basic education programs...
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