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Brooklyn College Tries to Ban NYPD Officers from Campus
Just when I think I can’t be any more disgusted with college students’ hand-wringing, Brooklyn College is telling police officers that their presence on campus is upsetting for students:
Brooklyn College in New York City has directed police officers who need a bathroom break to use the broken-down facilities in a building on the far edge of campus. With a petition in the works to ban cops from the taxpayer-funded campus, the school’s director of public safety, Donald Wenz, told the student newspaper The Excelsior that he is pushing to keep law enforcement out of sight, the New York Post reported Sunday night.
Please note that the director of public safety made this statement.
To minimize student exposure to police presence, officers have been told that the college “prefers” they use bathroom facilities in the West End Building of the campus. A junior described the bathroom, which is located at the far end of the campus, in this way:
“The bathroom is horrendous,” Abe said. “You can only wash your hands in one of the sinks because the other two are broken.” The newspaper representative from the Post found “a broken toilet with a stained seat and an out of order sign taped to the door of the stall. The newspaper staff also found a lack of soap and paper towels.” Another student stated that students “. . . don’t feel comfortable around cops. They just don’t. It makes safe spaces feel not so safe.”
A student petition is also being circulated to support banning the police from the campus.
An NYPD sergeant/union chief made this suggestion: “Maybe it’s time these students, who fail to recognize the value of those protecting them, go take classes abroad—where they can have their bathrooms all to themselves,” he said.
The actions and statements by the college administrators and students are despicable. Let’s see if the petition banning the police from the campus is approved. When a crisis happens on campus, who do you think the administrators will call?
Published in Policing
Who the heck are the Gophers?? I’m so sorry . . . ;-)
The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers. The University of Michigan’s perennial
victimsrivals in the Little Brown Jug football game every fall. One year, in the first decade of the 20th century, a Michigan fraternity kidnapped the Minnesota mascot, a live gopher. The next year a Minnesota fraternity attempted to return the compliment by kidnapping a live Michigan mascot owned by a Michigan fraternity. Since Michigan’s mascot was a wolverine, it ended badly.Seawriter
EEEwwwwww!!! I’m so glad I asked! ;-(
(Having just come inside after digging big holes in my lawn) Penfold, you don’t have a garden or a lawn, do you?
I grew up on a farm here in SE Minnesota. My high school’s teams were the Gophers as well. I trapped the little buggers for the 50 cent state-provided bounty and took them to the Viola Gopher Count Days annual event where I received my rewards, enough to buy a funnel cake or two if I remember correctly. And once, I must have been about 7, I trapped one in a barrel. I was going to keep him as a pet till the little devil bit me. So they can be feisty I guess. Just not very fear-inspiring. I apologize for veering so far off topic.
Never apologize for offering a moment of laughter — except for the biting part, of course!
My girls all went to a YMCA camp in La Honda, near Santa Cruz where it was a rite of passage for campers to kiss a banana slug. It’s quite the production, as one’s lips have to be dry to avoid damaging the slugs, and they have to be handled a certain way, etc, etc.
But back to mascots. I went to Scottsdale Community College for a bit, where the mascot was Artie the Artichoke: https://www.scottsdalecc.edu/about/history. (As someone who is often mistakenly called “Artie”, I enjoyed it more.)
And Stanford’s mascot is a type of pine tree, the Cardinal (note it is singular.)
I’m on the opposite side of Susan on this, as I like weird and funny mascots. College sports will always have plenty of Spartans and Trojans and Wolverines, so it’s fun to leaven that with the weirder ones. And even some of the major universities have strange mascots, when you think about them, for example, corn huskers. Really? And even Indianans can’t seem to agree on what exactly a Hoosier is, or where the term came from.
[Edited to fix a typo and get Susan’s name right.]
I’d have my lunch every day in the center of campus and use a different bathroom every time. What are they gonna do, arrest me?
The name mistake happens all the time, Archie. I wouldn’t mind except it’s that Lefty, Sally Quinn! No worries.
Hee-hee! Good one