UT: "We have no duty to protect students"

As UT's legal counsel stated yesterday. "We have no duty to protect students."

At UT this went over like a lead balloon.

Student's conversations overheard today :

"Why do we have blue phones then?" - Note the dead link to blue phones at UTPD web page.

"Why do we have an SMS alert system?"

"Are we supposed to call KPD instead of UTPD?"

"Is $300,0000 more important to UT than the UT image to Alumni, current and future students?"

Hmmm. Let me get this straight. UT simultaneously denies its duty to protect it's students, and strongly insists it has the duty of preventing them from defending themselves:

Pursuant to TCA 39-17-1309 it is a FELONY offense for any person to carry a weapon on University property. This applies even to individuals who possess a valid Tennessee Handgun Carry permit. Individuals who possess these permits are NOT authorized to carry a weapon on any University owned or controlled property.

UT has created a target-rich victim zone and then turned their backs on the past and future victims.

Go Vols! And go defenseless! And go quickly, lest you get hit in the head with a brick in a poorly lit parking garage.