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A Utah gun rights group wants the selection committee for the next University of Utah President to include support for weapons on campus as one of their criteria. Do you think this should be a requirement for the position?

The State Legislature should do their job, say yeah or nay to guns on campus, and take it out of the hands of academicians. Having been a campus cop, I know the ban won't stop bad guys from bringing them on campus. In fact it encourages them because it makes their victims easy pray.

 

Absurd and inappropriate.

I do think a doctrinaire opponent to guns on campus ought to be rejected. As a faculty member in the state higher education system, I hope at least some of my students are armed.

Duhh!

Will the "village idiot choir" have a representative, as well?

You have got to be kidding...

Not just no, but "hell no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" When are some Utahns going to stop focusing on that which doesn't matter. We need to the University of Utah producing high-quality engineers, lawyers, doctors and business people. The focus of the next University of Utah President should focus on producing high-quality graduates.

Any candidate for the position of President of the University will need many qualifications, but their personal views on controversial issues should not be the main criteria in the selection process.

I'm more interested in someone who will improve quality and reduce costs for students and taxpayers.

Ridiculous litmus test.

Only in Utah could you expect something this silly.

Not just no, but hell no. How could anybody think this is a legitimate criteria for selecting the president of a University? Are we really that jacked up as a community?

What's next? The U's new President can't believe in evolution? How about gravity?

That has to be the most ludicrous litmus test for an academic position I have ever heard of.

Yes, to do otherwise is not to support Utah law and the U.S. Constitution; furthermore, prohibiting concealed firearms intended for self-defense is an infringement on the public safety and a financial liability to the taxpayers. For example, if a young female student left her concealed firearm at home because of a University policy and then was assaulted on campus, the taxpayers would end up paying for the legal settlement.

Are you kidding! How many other litmus tests are we going to entertain? Will the "Survivors of Alien Abductions Support Group" also be allowed to add a clause that future presidents of the U believe in alien abduction. It is their constitutional right to believe in it after all!

If the gun rights zealots had left any doubt in people's minds about out their nuttiness it was just erased!

You have got to be fricking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Respondents include - 

Fred Adams, Stuart Adams, Jess Agraz, Scott Anderson, Patrice Arent, Bruce Baird, Tom Barberi, Heather Barney, Steve Barth, Jeff Bell, Tom Berggren, Mike Bertelsen, Ron Bigelow, Rob Bishop, Laura Black, Jim Bradley, Ralph Brown, Ken Bullock, Chris Bleak, Curt Bramble, Ralph Brown, Aaron Browning, Dave Buhler, Ken Bullock, Ric Cantrell, Maura Carabello, Rebecca Chavez-Houck, Kay Christensen, David Clark, Thomas Clay, Peter Corroon, Fred Cox, Lew Cramer, Gene Davis, Richard Davis, Brad Daw, Alan Dayton, Margaret Dayton, Mike Deaver, Brad, Dee, Joseph Demma, John Dougall, Randy Dryer, Donald Dunn, Becky Edwards, Scott Ericson, Jessica Fawson, Janice Fisher, Wendy Fisher, Lorie Fowlke, Ronald Fox, Jordan Garn, Luke Garrott, Dave Gessel, Natalie Gochnour, Robert Grow, Karen Hale, David Hansen, Neil Hansen, Joe Hatch, Jeff Hartley, Deidre Henderson, Lyle Hillyard, Randy Horiuchi, Bruce Hough, Scott Howell, Miriam Hyde, Allison Isom, Eric Jergensen, Mike Jerman, Roger Johnson, Michael Jolley, Gordon Jones, Leslie Jones, Kirk Jowers, Brian King, Scott Konopasek, Chris Kyler, Fred Lampropoulos, Douglas Larson, David Litvack, Larry Lunt, Matt Lyon, Ben McAdams, Gayle McKeachnie, JT Martin, Jason Mathis, Karen Mayne, Derek Miller, Rob Miller, Ethan Millard, Brett Millburn, Karen Morgan, Mike Mower, Holly Mullen, Wayne Niederhauser, Mike Noel, Ralph Okerlund, James Olsen, Val Oveson, Scott Parson, Kelly Patterson, Frank Pignanelli, Jason Powers, Joe Pyrah, Mike Reberg, Jill Remington Love, Lauren Richards, Holly Richardson, Robin Riggs, James Roberts, Luz Robles, Ross Romero, Don Savage, Bryan Schott, Jay Seegmiller, Patrick Shea, Randy Shumway, Soren Simonsen, Jeremy Slaughter, Carol Spackman-Moss, Howard Stephenson, Mike Styler, Todd Taylor, Juliette Tennert, Gary Thorup, Kevin Van Tassell, Royce Van Tassel, Michael Waddoups, Chuck Warren, Christine Watkins, LaVarr Webb, Todd Weiler, Alan West, Ted Wilson, Carl Wimmer, Mike Winder, Thomas Wright