(NAME-MCE) College Bans Students From Covering Faces

[Ozlem Sensoy]

Wow. Paranoia has finally set it.

Will colleges also be banning pants? All terrorist bombers male. All campus
shooters male. Most violence a product of hyper masculinity. I wanna ensure
that the people who say they don't have penises aren't trying to bypass
campus watch by wearing dresses! The peni are the greater threat to campus
security. No more pants on campus!

If this story is true, shame on MA College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

OS.


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On 06/01/10 8:09 AM, "Anselmo Villanueva" <anselmo.villanueva at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 
> 
> College Bans Students From Covering Faces
> 
> The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has banned
> students or others on its campuses from covering their faces, The Boston
> Globe reported. College officials say that the rules are designed to promote
> safety. But Muslim groups say that the ban should have an exemption for
> those who wear face veils for religious reasons, as is the case with some
> Muslim women.
> 
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/colleges_ban_on.html
> 
> College¹s ban on veils draws flak
> 
> January  5, 2010 08:02 PM
> 
> By Martin Finucane, Boston Globe
> 
> The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences has established a
> policy banning people from covering their faces on its three campuses, in an
> effort to ensure public safety, a college spokesman said today.
> 
> But the new policy has drawn flak from a Muslim civil rights advocacy group,
> which wants the school to exempt Muslim women who wear veils over their
> faces.
> 
> "It's a very strange policy. I don't know where it came from. The only thing
> we can conclude is that it's designed to specifically target Muslims," said
> Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Washington-based Council on
> American-Islamic Relations.
> 
> Michael Ratty, a spokesman for the college, which has campuses in Boston,
> Worcester, and Manchester, N.H. said the new policy was designed as part of
> a "periodic assessment of public safety policies" at the college.
> 
> "It's no surprise that college safety has become a huge issue of importance
> in the past couple of years. This is another measure that public safety
> [officials at the college] wanted to implement to keep the campus safer,"
> Ratty said of the policy, which went into effect on Jan. 1.
> 
> The ban would cover anything that covers the entire face. In addition to
> veils, that could include ski masks and scarfs drawn over the face, he
> said.
> 
> He said college public safety officials wanted to be able to identify people
> who were in college buildings. He also said the development of the policy
> had no connection to the arrest of a 2008 graduate of the school, Tarek
> Mehanna, last year on charges of plotting terrorist attacks.
> 
> "Unequivocally, it has nothing to do with that case," he said.
> 
> Ratty said the college had found two people who would be affected by the
> ban, officials had met with them, and they had agreed to comply with it.
> 
> "We have faith that [the policy] is appropriate," he said.
> 
> But Hooper said he had not heard of such a policy adopted at any other
> American school. And he argued that since the policy includes a medical
> exemption, it should include a religious exemption.
> 
> "People should have the right to practice their faith as they see fit, not
> as others see fit," he said.
> 
> Sarah Wunsch, staff attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts, said the policy
> was "puzzling and possibly illegal."
> 
> Founded in 1823, the private college has prepared more men and women for
> professional careers in pharmacy than any other academic institution in the
> world, according to the school's website. It has 4,300 students who pursue
> 30 programs in pharmacy and a variety of other health care-related
> fields.
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