“College campuses are meant to provide students, faculty, and staff with a safe haven where they can teach, learn, and grow,” said SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher in a news release. “It is unbearably saddening when a peaceful campus community like Umpqua Community College is disrupted by violence. As those affected by this devastating tragedy continue to heal, the entire State University of New York family will keep them in our thoughts.”Bump, Bethany. "SUNY to observe national moment of silence Thursday for UCC victims." Albany Times Union. October 8, 2015. http://blog.timesunion.com/schools/suny-to-observe-national-moment-of-silence-thursday-for-ucc-victims/3291/
Nancy Zimpher, hypocrite, has done much to ensure that SUNY campuses are not a safe haven. How about a moment of silence also for those at SUNY for whose deaths she is more or less responsible?
"SUNY police chiefs serve at the pleasure of the campus president, thus are motivated to keep crime stats down by any means […] SUNY can no longer afford to staff, or overstaff, a body, or overstaff, a body which is subject to inefficiencies, manipulation, cronyism, ill motivation and mismanagement."Peter Barry, VP & Legislative Director of NYS University Police Officers Union Local 1792 of the American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees AFSCME, Council 82 & AFL-CIO. (127-128). http://webcitation.org/6Sz9DNrcH
How much has Nancy Zimpher done to eliminate the known corruption and incompetence among SUNY Police that endanger students, faculty, staff, and visitors to SUNY campuses? Nothing, AFAIK. The problems have grown worse under her, as she pockets more and more of the salary and perks she never earns.
In this small upstate college town, there were many who tried to comprehend how a popular 77-year-old professor who championed antiwar philosophies would have come to such a violent end: stabbed to death in his office on Friday, by, the police said, a graduate student whom he knew.
Then there were those who said they had noticed signs of erratic behavior by the suspect, a graduate student at Binghamton University, who, they said, was becoming increasingly fearful — so much so that his roommate said he had warned university officials of his concerns.
Schmidt, Michael S. and Michael D. Regan." "Binghamton Student Says He Warned Officials." N. Y. Times. December 6, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/nyregion/07binghamton.html
The family of Alexandra Kogut is considering whether to sue New York state and The College at Brockport for failing to provide enough security that might have prevented the freshman’s death, according to court records.
A notice of claim filed two months after 18-year-old Kogut was beaten to death on Sept. 29, 2012, inside her dorm room by her boyfriend, Clayton Whittemore, alleges that “campus police/security fell below the standard of ordinary care” expected of an entity that legally takes on some of the responsibilities of a parent.
"Koguts consider legal action against SUNY Brockport; The family of Alexandra Kogut is considering whether to sue New York state and The College at Brockport for failing to provide enough security that might have prevented the freshman’s death, according to court records."
LaDuca, Rocco. Utica Observer-Dispatch. June 3, 2014. http://www.uticaod.com/article/20140603/News/140609762
How many students, faculty, staff, and visitors to SUNY campuses might still be alive if there were a Chancellor who genuinely cared about and who actually did something about making those campuses "a safe haven where they can teach, learn, and grow"? How many murders, overdoses, suicides, accidents, etc. might have been prevented?
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