Week 5 - Marissa Gomez-Alforja A03

The article "The Imperial University" made me realize how education in the US is strongly connected to imperialism. In my experience, it was very common for there to be some kind of security force on campus. I first noticed it in middle school when police officers would ride around in golf carts. As I got older and the campus got larger, the type of security increased. It made me feel safe up until I realized who they were really protecting... The institution. I believe that security was only on these campuses for show. They were a front to show that they are protecting the students and the teachers, when ultimately they were there to protect the school. For example, the pepper spray incident at UC Davis. The campus security cared more about the university's reputation than the actual human beings that made up the university. I think that the upbringing of the US corrupted the education system. The US was always so forceful; they were in a world that made the people on top of this made up hierarchy the most powerful and influential. The education system shows the same tactics and covers them up to make them look good. How do the faculty members feel about the the universities' security tactics? Is the population just used to this ideology?

References:

Chatterjee, P., Maira, S. (2014). The Imperial University; Race, War, and the Nation-State.

(n.d.) Retrieved from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-group-wants-uc-davis-chancellor-to-quit-over-pepper-spray-pr/.