Students demand university offer ‘safe’ rides home at night after defunding police – IOTW Report

Students demand university offer ‘safe’ rides home at night after defunding police

Campus Reform: Binghamton University announced in June that they are reallocating a portion of the campus police department’s budget to other campus services such as “mental health.” Just two months later, students are now petitioning the university to provide them with car rides home at night to make them “feel safe.”

Specifically, students at Binghamton are calling for the school to resume its “Safe Ride” program.

Safe Ride is a form of on-campus transportation provided by the university from 9  p.m. to 3  a.m. during the school year. If students feel unsafe walking on the campus between these hours, they can call this service and be driven to their destination.

The program is run by the Binghamton’s Transportation and Parking Services, but it was not scheduled to operate this fall because of coronavirus safety concerns. The university stated that “the size of the vehicles does not allow for social distancing, creating a risk to student drivers.” 

Instead, students were encouraged to use the walking escort service offered by the University Police if they feel unsafe on the campus. more

25 Comments on Students demand university offer ‘safe’ rides home at night after defunding police

  1. …P.J. O’Rourke once wrote an essay about when he attended Miami University that they had sex-segregated dormatories, curfews for sororities, floor mothers to see if the girls were in on time, etc., when he went to school there.

    He went back in 1994 and of course they had gotten rid of all that by then, so the girls were free to do whatever they wanted to do, as far into the night as they liked.

    After which, he dryly noted, what they wanted to do the particular night he was there was have a “Take Back the Night” rally, protesting how dangerous it is for young women to be out wandering around on their own at night…

    funny how that works, innit? Almost like those rules, laws, police, and enforcement were there for a REASON, or something…

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  2. Get out of the college and get’cher’self into a trade school, learn a REAL skill. Oh, and learn how to take care of yer’self, GROW UP!

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  3. Although this won’t happen because it is a University and common sense is prohibited, the school administration should issue a statement stating that because of defunding per student/protester demands, students are now personally responsible for their own safety. This means that they probably shouldn’t be out walking alone after midnight. If they have to go out at night, they are responsible for organizing a group for mutual protection. Remain sober when out in public.

    I know – this is a pipe dream because we are talking about leftists who can’t take personal responsibility for anything. But it could be a good teaching moment but for the fact that universities are loathe to teach anything useful.

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  4. Typical stupid bint think. They want to go up and down at the same time. Left and right at the same time. Get warmer and cooler at the same time. So tired of assholes like this. They literally make it impossible to do anything rational or intelligent at any level. And instead of entertaining their never-ending stupidity, they should be told to fuck off, and if they still stick around complaining, they need to be slapped hard until they go away.

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  5. This is the same university that failed to protect YAF and College Republican events last year. Now, the leftist snowflakes got what they wanted with police funds being reallocated (defunding) and suddenly they don’t feel safe? Critical thinking is obviously not anywhere in the curriculum (yes I know, cue the standard university / indoctrination comments)

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  6. Recognize that most of the students are adults, and many are even 21 or older. Yet, universities are almost universally “gun free zones” ensuring a target rich environment without opposition for robbers and rapists.

    Next time a liberal spouts the false statistic that 1 out of 4 women will be raped in college, remind them they made them defenseless.

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  7. I gave a young lady that I barely knew at the time because she went to my church and was also a student at EWU in Cheney, Wa, a ride into Spokane one time back in the Spring of 1976 because she needed a ride. I later that Fall became friends with her and ended up marrying her the next year.

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  8. geoff the aardvark AUGUST 17, 2020 AT 12:38 PM
    “I gave a young lady that I barely knew at the time because she went to my church and was also a student at EWU in Cheney, Wa, a ride into Spokane one time back in the Spring of 1976 because she needed a ride. I later that Fall became friends with her and ended up marrying her the next year.”

    …This one goes out to Geoff and Mrs. Aardvark, wherever they are…

    https://youtu.be/_3XnYpGY5Z8?t=2

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  9. I still wish that Mrs. Aardvark (Patty) was still here, unfortunately she passed away from leukemia at the end end of Feb. 2013 after we were married for 35.5 years. That ride in my 56 Ford F-100 pickup truck was worth it. And after nearly 7 and half years later I still miss her considerably. She was the best woman that I ever knew. I used to listen to Bus Stop by The Hollies back in the mid 60’s and can remember one time hearing it on my transistor radio early in the morning delivering papers on my paper route with the radio playing real loud. I think I probably woke up a few of my customers with that radio back then.

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  10. geoff the aardvark
    AUGUST 17, 2020 AT 1:35 PM
    “I still wish that Mrs. Aardvark (Patty) was still here, unfortunately she passed away from leukemia at the end end of Feb. 2013 after we were married for 35.5 years.”

    …sorry for your loss, geoff, but it is something to have found, and you can be together again one day.

    So here’s another platta that mattas, a Golden Oldie from a tanished oldie going out to Geoff and Patty and all those temporarily sundered until they meet again in heaven’s light…

    https://youtu.be/OvgM_xcx2GI

    God Bless,
    SNS

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