Fordham University looks like they’re shaking in their boots.

Mike from Mike’s Spot recently sponsored a demonstration in conjunction with Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) week. Despite a reluctant committee who approved his demonstration, Mike made the most of his time at [FU, New York!]

While I wish I had displayed such activism on campus, concealed carry on campus isn’t much of an issue at the University of California. UC Irvine, for example, will allow you to carry as long as you have a CCW permit and you notify campus police. UC Davis might’ve been different. The worst that could have happened, assuming I was legally issued a CCW permit, is expulsion. California Penal Code 626.9 actually exempts such restrictions from carrying on campus. The issue we’re having is the fact that California is a may-issue state and many sheriffs are very reluctant to hand CCW permits out. I digress.

In order to get his demonstration approved, Mike had to water down the display. He anticipated that the committee wouldn’t approve his application had he used empty holsters. Unfortunately, his anticipation was correct and there would have been no question about it that they would have denied permission. Nonetheless, with two other participants, the demonstration turned heads. Many students seem to acknowledge the problem and approve of SCCC’s message – he even had a small column in the Young Republican’s publication.

Until recently, he had thought that anything related to his on campus demonstration was done and over. More has to be done, yet homework doesn’t finish itself.

This morning I noticed something new about his blog entry – it has a disclaimer! You use disclaimers for two reasons: to cover your ass or to be satirical.

“This post is not intended to demonstrate that Fordham University, or any of it’s offices have the same view as I do. Fordham does not promote SCCC in anyway. The bulletin board was not intended as a slight at university policy or rules, it was merely a way of communicating interest about a group of young people who support civil liberties that ended up having a direct relationship to another event I was running. Again- Fordham U in no way supports any of the views expressed on my blog- now, in the past, or in the future.”

That’s not very funny.

I asked Mike about it. Turns out that the administration noticed his post within the first 48 hours and had some qualms about positively associating the demonstration to the views of the “administration.” In some crazy way or another, FU (haha. Suiting - Is it not?) thought that Mike was speaking on behalf of the campus.

Does that make sense? Had the topic been global warming, I bet they wouldn’t have bat an eyelash. It’s obvious that the demonstration wasn’t on behalf of FU – why would it be necessary to force Mike through meetings to edit his original post? On his own blog! Leave it to an “administration” to piss their pants when a student sends a message of self-reliance. He even thanked the red-tape bandits for the opportunity to voice his opinion!

I’ll be hearing from Mike if there are additional shenanigans. I wish him the best.