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(Source: "Dayton 06-2019 38 - Dayton Police Department Police Car" by David Ellis, via Flickr) UT-Tyler Police Department gave an update about campus safety to student government on Oct. 13. The topics ranged from campus blue lights to parking, to many others.  I thought readers might like to know this information too, so here is a recap of what they discussed. To get the full Q&A session without my highlights and paraphrase, then visit SGA’s YouTube page .  The session was a question-and-answer format. UTTPD's representatives were Chief of Police Mike Medders and Assistant Chief of Police Bradley Standerder. Please remember that this information is as fresh as Oct. 13, 2022 (although, I think the information is still relevant).  Here is my recap:   License Plate Readers At All Entrances  UTTPD now has license plate readers at all campus entrances, according to Chief of Police Mike Medders. Assistant Chief of Police Bradley Standerfer said, in another p...

 (Source: "Man on a Job Interview" by Amtec Photos via Flickr) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is an ideological virus that is ravishing higher education institutions. The latest example is how testing for DEI in hiring practices threatens academic freedom and contradicts the university’s fundamental mission. UT-Tyler now makes evaluation of DEI commitment an essential part of its job screening processes. The university's Human Resources webpage presents a resource document that contains over 34 sample questions related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion that a hiring manager can ask a job applicant to test his commitment to DEI. UT-Tyler's practice, though new to the university, is now very common among institutions of higher learning. However, screening for ideological conformity in prospective faculty and staff subverts academic freedom and undermines the higher education’s mission (which is to pursue the truth, rather than ideology.) UT-Tyler should end its ...

 ("Maternity_Grants_For_Pregnant_Women" by Grant Source via Flickr) Should there be a pregnancy resource center on-campus just as there are LGBT and Military Veterans’ Resource Centers? This is what Kristan Mercer-Hawkins of Students For Life and Standing With You would like to see for pregnant and parenting students, according an Instagram post on Thursday.  “Honestly, I would love for their just to be an office,” Hawkins told a student questioner during a question and answer forum at an unidentified college.  “A lot of schools have offices of diversity, equity and inclusion…but I would love for there to actually be a place she can go, if she’s pregnant or parenting, a pregnant parenting support center, where she can go an learn about her Title IX rights as a pregnant or parenting student…and that office be the coordinator or the liaison with the administration,” she said. Hawkins envisions one center where pregnant and parenting students can go to get help with all coor...