"Overthinking" is not a good thing. Professor or not! IMO it tends to make one not objective.OK, I'm back, some very interesting discussion here.
It may be that there will be required syllabus language. If so the CC Task Force I'm on will be drafting it. Mostly though professors are responsible for their own syllabus as long as it's within the law. It's often the point of a syllabus to say what laws, policies and rules apply in the classroom, so that all students know what the expectations of behavior (on both sides of the lectern) are.
I'm accused of "overthinking": Hello, I'm a professor. Overthinking is my job. I'll accept that one.
Important point about Jan 1. On that day, the border of campus becomes the end of OC in Texas. But that border is much more porous, poorly defined and difficult to identify than most people think. I think there's a very real possibility that somebody is going to accidentally OC right onto campus, or even right into a classroom. I don't think our University Counsel or Police chief has really thought about that, they certainly haven't said anything.
How do we alert people (especially non-chl) about the change of laws?
He really doesn't like usI wonder,,,,, does he not like our thinking?
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How is he going to handle fellow Professors that he sees carrying, is he going to report them to Campus Police as well?
If the professor is still listening, I have a submission for his syllabus.....
"Underwear, Vajazzle, firearms: I really don't want to see them. Keep them covered up."
I offered several questions for his response. No response. This gives me a great deal of information about the OP. My experience with the academicians in my years in education is that most "professors" do not like having their ideas/positions questioned, especially by students. Often they take serious offense that someone beneath them would dare, have the temerity, to actually think that they might have an idea which the highly educated and great thinker professor may have gotten wrong. If this person is indeed a professor, it may be this exact scenario. As the OP proudly proclaimed they are an overthinker. Looking for loopholes, cracks in the fascia, baiting with word duels is not educative. For me, I shall leave this OP in my past and give it the weight of validity it has earned.
Yep. Many of the current crop of younger "professors" with whom I've recently come into contact have yet to realize that the peripheral knowledge and understanding gained from doing research is, when you start drawing conclusions, often the most valuable.
Don't want to be uncharitable, but that realization/understanding here is either missing, or there is an unwillingness to put it to practice.
They would have a better claim if they were a practicing attorney. This is really a legal realm issue and has not to do with Professor of X.