This story is being featured in The Wall Street Journal today(05/20/08). Im a former student of Wise and Im completely on Mr. Barbers side on this issue. Heres the link to the article: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121124048245705393-C6h0S850XJ7I9GwIiHnkNxBWxls_20080619.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
It seems that quite a few groups are starting to notice that schools are getting out of control around here. I say its time for a lawsuit and hopefully a change in this fascist school policy that completely bans guns. Good luck Mr. Barber!
I'm currently a student at UVA(charlottesville) and I can't believe your story. It's disturbing how the school reacted, from what I've read you are a standup guy, a veteran, and only expelled because of the use of one person's powertrip to force his personal belief.
The article in the cavalier daily was also ridiculous, but the cavalier daily is also the same newspaper that has posted at good number of anti-Christian and racist cartoons that bring great PR in the news to UVA. http://www.google.com/search?&q=cavalier+daily+cartoons
I guess this is another case of the few making the rest look bad. You'll be in my prayers.
Things sure have changed with creative writing classes. When I took creative writing (The Novel, and Short Story) at Dabney S. Lancaster CC, I didn't get harassed like this. All of my stories had guns in them. I haven't changed my writing just because of Va. Tech. I still create speculative genre fiction with characters who carry guns. This sure is intolerable about what happened to Barber.
