A task force’s recommendation on Thursday that concealed guns be permitted in classrooms at the University of Texas at Austin left many people there leery about how the university will obey a controversial new state law allowing such weapons to be carried into buildings on college campuses.
That suggestion was part of a report by a 19-member panel of faculty, staff, and students that had been appointed by the university’s president, Gregory L. Fenves. The group recommended that guns be banned from dormitory rooms and certain laboratories, but the proposal to allow them in classrooms disappointed professors who wanted to make all such settings gun-free zones.
Doing so, the panel concluded, would probably violate the intent of the legislation, which was approved last spring.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Proposal-to-Allow-Concealed/234577