Ashley Rae Goldenberg reports:
To the George Mason University administration, protecting students from hurt feelings is more important than informing them about bomb-making materials found on campus.
If you are a student at GMU, you did not find out three students were arrested after bomb-making materials were found in their dorm last Wednesday until FOX 5 News broke the story Monday evening, nearly a week later.
In the meantime, the university police department informed students about alleged rapes that occurred on campus over the weekend, and even provided an email with an obligatory “trigger warning” for the easily offended. The school even managed to send out one email alert within three hours of an alleged rape incident.
The email sent to the GMU community and received by MRCTV includes the caveat that the rape incident deserves a “timely warning notification.”
According to the email, “Timely Warning notifications are released by the George Mason University Department of Police and Public Safety (Mason Police) to alert the campus community about crimes that pose a serious or continuing threat to safety. These public notifications are intended to enable campus community members to protect themselves.”
Apparently, bomb-making materials are a much smaller threat to public safety than alleged rapes to the point where one deserves an urgent response and the other can be ignored until students are upset they had to find out on the news.
Another priority that appears to be more important than informing the student body about bomb-making materials found on campus appears to be affirming the school’s commitment to “diversity.”
In an email to students from George Mason University President Angel Cabrera sent on March 21 at 6:08 p.m., Cabrera wrote about the school’s “culture of diversity and inclusion." This email was sent five days after the bomb materials were found.
The email includes references to new “cultural competency” programs and strengthening the school’s bias reporting system.
Also see: BREAKING Bomb-Making Material Found in George Mason Univ. Dorm: 3 Students Arrested
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