College Fix: Ohio State’s new intellectual diversity director

Legal scholar Lee Strang is now at Ohio State University to lead the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society. It is one of five new “intellectual diversity” centers at public Ohio universities that are in the works. They will work to promote “civic thought and leadership,” according to Strang, a former University of Toledo professor.

Intellectual diversity is important to get all sides of an issue.  This sounds like a good move, but we’ll see what this center actually accomplishes.

CNN: Georgia school shooting.

It’s been five days since the Appalagee High School shooting, and the details are starting to come out.  A few items are notable.

Bri Jones, 14, was in second period Wednesday when Colt Gray left the classroom, Jones said. “We didn’t notice he left,” Jones said, adding that he was “always quiet.”  But Gray came back and knocked on the door, Jones said.  Bri said she peeked out the door before she opened it because that’s what her mom taught her to do.  “As I was looking at the door, he was pulling his gun out, and then I froze up, like I froze up and I said ‘no’ to myself,” she said.  The teacher asked for the door to be opened, Bri said, “because she didn’t know he had a gun because she was at her desk.” As she went to open the door, “I was like, ‘No, he has a gun,’” Jones said. 

Everyone in that classroom owes their lives to Bri Jones.  Generally, 14 year-olds are awfully dumb.  Bri should get a statue or t-shirt or something.

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