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Students At University of Missouri Will Now Be Forcibly Required To Install Location Tracking App SpotterEDU To Monitor Their Movements

Students at University of Missouri will be required to participate in SpotterEDU location tracking program designed to measure and enforce class attendance.

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New students at the University of Missouri will be required to participate in a tracking program designed to measure and enforce class attendance, according to a new report from The Kansas City Star.

Years ago, we warned you that the everyone in America would soon be tracked and chipped, and every day that scenario comes closer and closer to becoming reality. NBC News promotes the benefits of being chipped, Bill Gates wants to place an RFID microchip into every child that receives vaccinations, Amazon just patented a payment system using only your palm, and the list trudges on seemingly endless. Now college students in Missouri will be forced to install the location tracking app SpotterEDU on their mobile devices.

“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:16,17 (KJB)

This is where America and the whole world is headed, we have let the technology genie out of the bottle, and there is no putting her back in. Today’s mobile location tracking app becomes tomorrow’s RFID microchip inserted inside your body.

Mizzou students required to install location tracking app so college can ‘pinpoint’ them

FROM CAMPUS REFORM: Despite privacy concerns, officials defended the decision as one to the benefit of students, as the school’s athletics department has already been using the same app, SpotterEdu, to track certain student-athletes.

“A student will have to participate in this recording of attendance,” Jim Spain, vice provost for undergraduate studies at MU, said in a statement to The Kansas City Star.

Individual professors have to opt-in to using the app, but once they do, students in those professors’ classes will not be able to opt-out.

SpotterEDU, developed by a former basketball coach, is designed to monitor a user’s attendance by “pinpointing students within a classroom until they leave, providing continuous, reliable and non-invasive attendance,” according to the app’s website. While the app ensures that students are in the classroom during class times, it claims it does not track students’ locations anywhere else.

“We only care if students are in class during class; no GPS tracking means we can’t locate them anywhere else,” the app’s website states. However, the app is not incapable of tracking students’ locations outside the classroom.

“From labs to auditoriums our technology can expand to cover any size of space accurately and precisely,” the app’s website adds.

In a statement to The Washington Post, SpotterEDU chief Rick Carter said that his company works with nearly 40 schools, including major schools such as Auburn, Central Florida, Indiana, and Missouri. Most schools only use SpotterEDU to track their student-athletes; however, many colleges are starting to use the app with their student bodies, like Missouri.

According to the Post, colleges use the data to ensure that student-athletes who are receiving scholarships are attending classes regularly. The program emails professors automatically if a student is not in a class, or shows up more than a few minutes late. Carter told the Post that professors can look specifically at attendance patterns for “students of color” or “out of state students” for retention purposes.

Some in academia, though, have reservations about colleges using this technology.

Indiana University assistant professor Kyle M. L. Jones told the Washington Post, “These administrators have made a justification for surveilling a student population because it serves their interests, in terms of the scholarships that come out of their budget, the reputation of their programs, the statistics for the school.”

“What’s to say that the institution doesn’t change their eye of surveillance and start focusing on minority populations, or anyone else. [Students] should have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges that an adult has. So why do we treat them so differently?”Jones said.

Robby Pfeifer, a  Virginia Commonwealth University student, echoed Jones’ sentiment.

“We’re adults,” he told the Washington Post. “Do we really need to be tracked? Why is this necessary? How does this benefit us? And is it just going to keep progressing until we’re micromanaged every second of the day?”

“It embodies a very cynical view of education, that it’s something we need to enforce on students, almost against their will,” Erin Rose Glass, digital scholarship librarian at the University of California-San Diego, said, according to the Post. “We’re reinforcing this sense of powerlessness…when we could be asking harder questions, like: Why are we creating institutions where students don’t want to show up?”

Sara Baker of the ACLU of Missouri told the Kansas City Star the group has “deep privacy concerns about this.”

“Any time you use surveillance technology, the question always is who is watching the watcher,” Baker said, adding that such technology could be used for abusive purposes “like monitoring which students are participating in protests.” READ MORE

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SAFE SPACE: University In Michigan Arms Its Students With Hockey Pucks As Protection Against Possible Active Shooter Attack

Oakland University in Michigan is passing out hockey pucks to be used as possible weapons against mass shooters. “It’s a great idea. I applaud them for their creativity,”

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Hockey pucks have been known to cause some serious injuries on the rink, but now school officials are hoping that they can do similar damage in more dangerous situations.

Don Rickles died too soon. Insult comic Don Rickles, when he really wanted to insult someone for being stupid, he called them a ‘hockey puck‘. Now, an institute of ‘higher learning’ in Michigan, is arming their students with hockey pucks to ward off an active shooter. Hmm. How exactly would that work?

Well, it would work pretty good if the shooter went into an ice rink while a game was going on. My buddy Johnny C can slapshot you to death in the blink of any eye. But reaching into your pocket while running through the library, and throwing a hockey puck at someone with an AK-47 doesn’t seem like it would yield much results other than alerting the shooter to where you were so they could kill you quicker.

Hey, here’s a radical idea. Why not make learning how to shoot a firearm a required class? Why not make personal self-defense a required class? Why not install water cannons at various locations around campus where shooters tend to go most? Or, you can slap on your safety pin, grab your hockey puck, and retreat into your safe space.

Yep, Don Rickles died before he could see his most famous comedy put down come to life. With apologies to Muhammed Ali, ‘rumble, snowflake. rumble‘.

University passes out hockey pucks as possible defense against active shooters

FROM ABC NEWS: Oakland University in Michigan is passing out hockey pucks to be used as possible weapons against mass shooters. The school’s initiative is twofold: circulating hockey pucks around campus in case of a dire situation, and raising funds retrofit the school’s classroom doors so that they can be locked from the inside.

The impetus for these efforts in suburban Detroit came after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in February, in which 17 students and staff members were killed. At the time, Oakland University was on break. But when students came back, they were shaken by what had happened.

“I walked into the classroom and a young woman approached me and said ‘Will you please lock the door? After what happened in Florida, I don’t feel safe,'” said Tom Discenna, a communications professor at Oakland University and the president of the school’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

“At that point, something inside me just kind of snapped,” he added.

Training sessions with the university’s police chief, Mark Gordon, were organized for the staff. Gordon cited his experience getting hit with hockey pucks while serving as a youth hockey coach as proof that they could be used to hurt, Discenna said.

Beyond the punch they pack, there are some other helpful advantages that hockey pucks provide, he explained.

“It’s not considered a weapon, it fits easily into a backpack or a brief case. It has a lot of advantages,” he said.

Discenna stressed that while they can be potentially handy in a dire situation, the real point of the hockey pucks is to raise enough money to install thumb locks on the doors across campus. The pucks have the name of the fundraising effort emblazoned on them and the school has received at least $10,000 for the effort so far.

The federal guidance on how to respond to active shooters urges people to “Run, Hide, Fight,” in that order. While the hockey pucks are part of the “fight” part of the equation, doors that can be locked from the inside are a critical part of the second phase: hide.

“It’s a great idea. I applaud them for their creativity,” Gomez said of Oakland University’s initiative.

As of now, many of the school’s classrooms are only able to be locked from outside, which would mean that a person would have to exit the room during an active shooter situation to secure the room.

“Not being able to lock their doors basically puts them in a very vulnerable position if the shooter is nearby and is able to enter their room,” said Steve Gomez, a former FBI special agent and current ABC News contributor. Gomez said when he speaks to family and friends about what to do in an active shooter situation, he urges them to look around for any objects that could be used to stop the shooter.

“A lot of times, whenever I have these discussions, I will look around and say, ‘You can grab that chair, you can grab that trash can.’ If you can’t run or hide, then the fight scenario involves any item you can get your hands on,” he said.

As for what that object can be, Gomez said that he’s heard a range of options, including soup cans that students have been urged to keep at their desk, or a wrench, or a stapler. And now, hockey pucks.

“Its a great idea. I applaud them for their creativity,” Gomez said of Oakland University’s initiative. READ MORE

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