"I can barely talk—first, with fear, and then with rage..."
Apparently, it's not enough that UND's administration is attacking the quality of education by cutting programs and experienced faculty and jacking class sizes. Now, we must also feel under physical attack as well.
I look up from my office computer to see two figures in camo with guns outside my window. My first thought is for my students' and my safety: I grab my phone, crawl under my desk and call 911. The dispatcher keeps me on the line until someone can see if ROTC is doing maneuvers.
I can barely talk—first, with fear, and then with rage when the dispatcher reports back that yes, in fact, I've probably just seen ROTC cadets, though they're going to send an officer to check because no one has cleared it with them. They thank me for reporting it.
A few minutes later, a university officer calls me back—not to reassure me, but to scold me for calling 911. He says ROTC has permission to do this exercise. When I tell him that this was news to 911 and that they encouraged me to call whenever I see a gun on campus, he seems surprised.
He also tells me that ROTC will be doing these exercises for the next couple weeks.
So I reply that I guess I'll be calling 911 for the next couple weeks—and I will. Every time.
It's not my job to decide whether people carrying guns at school are an actual threat. It's my job to teach and to get home to my family.
It's already highly inappropriate to conduct unnecessary military maneuvers in the middle of the quad. But with school shootings on the increase and tensions at UND running high, it's especially irresponsible.
We're already under financial and emotional attack. We don't need to feel under physical attack, too.
Heidi Czerwiec
Grand Forks
Czerwiec is an associate professor of English at UND.
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Oh shit
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My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes. -
She could be hot but my god, that haircutGrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes. -
Nose too phallic.bananasnblondes said:
She could be hot but my god, that haircutGrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes. -
Not tenured. Using the University for personal gain... She should be fired. No warning, just gone
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More shaking and vomiting on campus
Students at Emory University claim they were frightened and 'in pain' after someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk around campus.
Officials at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000, were forced to act after the youngsters claimed their 'safe space' was violated when the messages of 'hate' appeared on sidewalks and buildings.
One student even said she 'feared for her life' as she thought a 'KKK rally' was going on, while others were scared a mass shooting was going to take place and wouldn't walk alone.
Jim Wagner, president of the university, wrote Tuesday that the students viewed the scrawling as intimidation, and they voiced 'genuine concern and pain' as a result.
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I was pretty sure Race had been whooshed by The Onion. Nope. And it's even worse.RaceBannon said:More shaking and vomiting on campus
Students at Emory University claim they were frightened and 'in pain' after someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk around campus.
Officials at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000, were forced to act after the youngsters claimed their 'safe space' was violated when the messages of 'hate' appeared on sidewalks and buildings.
One student even said she 'feared for her life' as she thought a 'KKK rally' was going on, while others were scared a mass shooting was going to take place and wouldn't walk alone.
Jim Wagner, president of the university, wrote Tuesday that the students viewed the scrawling as intimidation, and they voiced 'genuine concern and pain' as a result.
http://emorywheel.com/emory-students-express-discontent-with-administrative-response-to-trump-chalkings/The chalkings that generated such controversy appeared overnight throughout Emory’s campus. College junior Harpreet Singh said that, initially, he did not find the chalkings significant. “I saw one big one, ‘Trump 2016,’ so I thought it was an isolated incident and I didn’t think much of it,” he said. “I thought, ‘Okay, it’s just a guy who wants to write whatever he wants to believe in for his political campaign.’ I was like, ‘Okay, I’m fine with that, to a certain extent.’”
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Thank God a real generation was here when the Nazi's were around. We'd be fucked now. We are such a fucking nation of pussies.RaceBannon said:More shaking and vomiting on campus
Students at Emory University claim they were frightened and 'in pain' after someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk around campus.
Officials at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000, were forced to act after the youngsters claimed their 'safe space' was violated when the messages of 'hate' appeared on sidewalks and buildings.
One student even said she 'feared for her life' as she thought a 'KKK rally' was going on, while others were scared a mass shooting was going to take place and wouldn't walk alone.
Jim Wagner, president of the university, wrote Tuesday that the students viewed the scrawling as intimidation, and they voiced 'genuine concern and pain' as a result. -
Not hot. Ugly in fact. And a useless cunt. Who does she thinks protects her ability to earn a living writing stupid poetry nobody will ever read? Christ.bananasnblondes said:
She could be hot but my god, that haircutGrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes. -
Food is a powerful motivator... I blame EBT cards
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bananasnblondes said:
She could be hot but my god, that haircutGrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes.
Disagree.
Also, her last name looks like the #1 set of letters all competitive scrabble players get in their recurring nightmares.
Also, this picture accompanies a poem called, "I Know My Pork". -
I was pretty sure Race had been whooshed by The Onion.
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Another Kent State doesn't sound so bad after all if this is the kind of trash that fills our campuses.
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Dennis_DeYoung said:bananasnblondes said:
She could be hot but my god, that haircutGrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes.
Disagree.
Also, her last name looks like the #1 set of letters all competitive scrabble players get in their recurring nightmares.
Also, this picture accompanies a poem called, "I Know My Pork".
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I love language: I love the flexibility of it, the sounds, the way it feels in my mouth.GrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes. -
So daddy was a dwarf, traveling with the circus, and mommy had a knotty uterus that squeezed all her collagen into her nose and ear tops, which make for good handles.
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My dad is from Grand Forks. His parents were depression-era farmers. Back then everybody was too fucking cold, starving and poor to complain. The pee would freeze before it hit the ground. Like in Russia. This bitch needs her shit pushed in. The end.
Go Fighting Sioux! -
PurpleJ said:
My dad is from Grand Forks. His parents were depression-era farmers. Back then everybody was too fucking cold, starving and poor to complain. The pee would freeze before it hit the ground. Like in Russia. This bitch needs her shit pushed in. The end.
Go Fighting Sioux!
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Kike's Place? I thought we specifically agreed to no racist crap!Ice_Holmvik said:Dennis_DeYoung said:bananasnblondes said:
She could be hot but my god, that haircutGrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes.
Disagree.
Also, her last name looks like the #1 set of letters all competitive scrabble players get in their recurring nightmares.
Also, this picture accompanies a poem called, "I Know My Pork". -
Wait until Whiteness Month.....kicks off in a week.
http://www.pcc.edu/about/diversity/cascade/whiteness-history-month/events.html -
Left's face it. We are fucked!Swaye said:
Thank God a real generation was here when the Nazi's were around. We'd be fucked now. We are such a fucking nation of pussies.RaceBannon said:More shaking and vomiting on campus
Students at Emory University claim they were frightened and 'in pain' after someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk around campus.
Officials at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000, were forced to act after the youngsters claimed their 'safe space' was violated when the messages of 'hate' appeared on sidewalks and buildings.
One student even said she 'feared for her life' as she thought a 'KKK rally' was going on, while others were scared a mass shooting was going to take place and wouldn't walk alone.
Jim Wagner, president of the university, wrote Tuesday that the students viewed the scrawling as intimidation, and they voiced 'genuine concern and pain' as a result. -
Ball gag in mouthSwaye said:
Not hot. Ugly in fact. And a useless cunt. Who does she thinks protects her ability to earn a living writing stupid poetry nobody will ever read? Christ.bananasnblondes said:
She could be hot but my god, that haircutGrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes.
I can't drink morning coffee
While reading Hardcore Husky -
@BallSackedDerekJohnson said:
Ball gag in mouthSwaye said:
Not hot. Ugly in fact. And a useless cunt. Who does she thinks protects her ability to earn a living writing stupid poetry nobody will ever read? Christ.bananasnblondes said:
She could be hot but my god, that haircutGrundleStiltzkin said:Oh shit
http://www.heidiczerwiec.com
My new collection, Self-Portrait as Bettie Page (Barefoot Muse, 2013), is a sonnet sequence that negotiates the relationship between formal poetics, bondage/discipline, and female identity through the figure of elusive 1950s pinup Bettie Page, whose own identity was a series of costumes.
I can't drink morning coffee
While reading Hardcore Husky
TRUE?!?!!!!1
