Faculty at Syracuse U. Demand ‘Transparency’ After False Reports of ICE on Campus
“community members were left perplexed as to why the school did not send out a campus wide alert telling them that law enforcement were on campus”
So much of this anti-ICE hysteria is just performative outrage.
The College Fix reports:
Syracuse faculty demand ‘transparency’ after false reports of ICE on campus
Syracuse University faculty, still reeling from the trauma of seeing U.S. Marshals on campus, are demanding “transparency” from their leaders.
Students and staff at the Onondaga County private college recently were upset after seeing two federal law enforcement agents on campus, mistaking them for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
“Several posts on the anonymous social media app YikYak claimed ICE was on campus Monday morning,” the Daily Orange reported. “The marshals were on campus as part of an investigation into an auto theft that occurred last month, the spokesperson said.”
Still, community members were left perplexed as to why the school did not send out a campus wide alert telling them that law enforcement were on campus. There have been at least three fake reports of ICE in the area, according to an official who spoke at a faculty townhall earlier this week.
The Daily Orange reported about the “calls for transparency”:
Michael Bunker, chief of SU’s Department of Public Safety, answered a handful of ICE-related questions early in the meeting. He said DPS has investigated multiple recent reports of ICE activity in the area, but there has been no evidence to substantiate them.
“We’ve had three reports recently that come into the Department of Public Safety,” he said. “All three of those we’ve been able to look into and have not seen ICE in the area.”
Bunker acknowledged that the possibility of ICE agents on campus was “quite alarming.”
That did not satisfy some faculty members.
“Still, several senators questioned why DPS never sent an official campus alert to quickly dispel rumors,” the student newspaper reported. (Never mind that alerting potential student suspects that law enforcement was on campus could hinder the investigation).
“They suggested using the university’s Orange Alert system to push out notifications for students and faculty,” the Daily Orange reported. “Bunker did not respond to the suggestion.”
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If Syracuse University feels that it should be a federal law-free zone, perhaps we should revisit whether it or its students should receive any federal funds, grants, student loans or research funding.
Their credit, the story is that the faculty are whining, not that the university is caving…so cutting off funding at this point is premature…but if the university starts caving to the demands….
Reminds me of when that Dominican priest was mistaken for a Klansman at Indiana University. (They wear white robes, but their hood doesn’t cover their face.) People are none too observant and leap to conclusions. Some Boy Scouts should wander onto campus and see what kinds of mischief gets stirred up.
Also, they wear their hood down on their backs putting it up only at particular points in formal services — unlike urban vibrators, who are widely recognized to be no crime risk at all.
Please help me to understand this.
Reports that federal law enforcement officers are in the area somehow warrants investigation by the university’s Department of Public Safety (DPS). What exactly needed “investigation”? Was there some infraction or violation of law that called for the expenditure of resources on an “investigation”?
The chief of the DPS considers the possibility that federal officers are present to be “quite alarming.” Why is that alarming?
Because so many of “their community” are federal lawbreakers.
It’s the only reason that makes sense.