Number of U.S. universities that have received military equipment from the Defense Department since 1998 : 117
That have received mine-resistant vehicles : 6
Grenade launchers : 2
From the Harper’s Index. They are silent on which 2. But I’m picturing Drew Gilpin Faust with one hanging over her office fireplace.
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Apparently @UCF owned one of the grenade launchers, “repurposed to fire tear-gas canisters.” http://t.co/rNP23Uhnuf
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So, two universities in the US own a grenade launcher. They must have rowdy student protests. http://t.co/8241sJef42
RT @EricCrampton: So, does NZ Universities’ lack of grenade launchers & mine-resistant vehicles help or hurt our intl student numbers?
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So, does NZ Universities’ lack of grenade launchers & mine-resistant vehicles help or hurt our intl student numbers?
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From the Chronicle of Higher Education, which Harper’s references:
Should the campus police at the University of Central Florida ever need a grenade launcher, one sits waiting in the department’s armory. Repurposed to fire tear-gas canisters, the weapon was used several years ago for training exercises, according to Richard Beary, the university’s chief of police. It hasn’t left storage since.
At Central Florida, which has an enrollment of nearly 60,000 and a Division I football team, the device was acquired, a police spokeswoman said, for “security and crowd control.” But the university’s police force isn’t the only one to have come upon a grenade launcher. Hinds Community College—located in western Mississippi, with a student population of 11,000—had one too. (Campus police officers at Hinds declined to comment. A woman who worked for the department but declined to identify herself said that the launcher had been repurposed to shoot flares but that the college no longer possessed it.)
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@dandrezner @cblatts You want equal opportunity bazookas.
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