--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > Around '84 I came to Fairfield on one of those assembly courses. At > > the time, a student told me that Campus Security Guards had been armed > > with guns. But this had caused an outrage in non-meditating surrounds > > and that, as a direct result the Iowa legislature had passed a law > > banning security guards on Iowa campuses from carrying firearms. > > > > Has anyone ever heard of this? I had only heard it once -- from this > > student -- and this was over 20 years ago so my memory could be > > faulty. >
> I remember that course. MMY was on campus, and they hired armed > rent-a-cops for beefed up security. I was an MIU student at the time, > and I remember having to show my badge to the armed guard stationed by > the front entrance when walking from Howard dorm, across highway 1, > over to the main campus. > > I also remember the bit about the legislature passing a law outlawing > armed guards on Iowa campuses. However, I don't know if that is > actually the case. > ************** The hiring of armed goons by MIU did prompt the Iowa legislature to pass a law barring armed guards on Iowa campuses. The rent-a-wannabes hired by MIU's idiot security chief (who is, unbelievably, still in charge of security after beaucoup f*ckups over the last 20+ years) did stunts like yanking older women out of their cars in imposing the entirely unreasonable and unwarranted level of security that MIU was imposing. The publicity from this caused the legislature to act -- it's hard to link to any published stories about this, since it predates the net by years.
