Abstracts

Study of Texas Tech University Community’s Perception about Campus Carry
Abstract

Campus carry is a term to define carrying guns on campus by people older than twenty-one years old. This has been an important topic to argue about in the past recent years nationwide, mostly because people’s opinions toward overall safety of campuses are different, and often completely opposed to each other. Pro-gun advocates believe that the general safety of campuses would be diminished by this law, whereas anti-gun advocates think the opposite. This proposition has been a case of debate in Texas Tech University (TTU) more frequently since the Texas Legislature passed the law of carrying guns on campus, effective by October 1, 2016. We, as an advanced English writing class at TTU, were interested in studying the situation on our campus regarding this law, and people’s perspective toward that. In this study were reviewed 12 articles, which discussed different aspects of this law from both sides. Different possible effective parameters were considered in the articles such as political view, gender and age. Moreover, the debates and examples given by both sides to back up their claim to study whether or not the campus carry law would increase the overall safety of campuses were discussed. In order for us to see what people thought at TTU, we conducted a poll among 148 respondents, all associated with the university, and gave them 26 questions which were chosen based on our hypotheses. Then, we tabulated the data into Excel and analyzed them closely to see what the results meant and how they could guide us to reach a conclusion about the perception of the majority of people. Interestingly, we observed that about fifty-nine percent of respondents believed that the campus was going to be a less safe place to study and work. This result can be of interest of those who want to learn about TTU’s general perception about this case; however, the number of respondents might not reflect the whole population of Texas Tech University.

Keywords: campus carry, Texas Tech campus carry law, gun carry survey- Sina Saravi


Investigating Red Raiders’ Perceptions of Campus Carry Law in Texas Tech University
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According to the recent news Texas Tech University (TTU) is going to enact the Campus Carry law on Sep. 1, 2016. This law gives the permission to TTU members to carry concealed licensed guns on campus. There were some debates whether this law would make the university safer or not. The supporters believed that it could be helpful in case of mass shooting incidents or assaults to carry guns, while others opposed. The opponents brought up reasons such as immaturity of young students who might be involved with alcohol, higher risk of hurting innocent people in mass shooting incidents with more armed people, and also the possibility of using victims’ guns against them in case of assaults. In order to investigate TTU members’ perception of Campus Carry law, we conducted a survey among 148 people in TTU. The results were statistically evaluated in an Excel file and used to examine the correctness of the hypotheses we made about public perception of this law. Overall, more than half of the participants in the survey believed that campus carry would decrease the university’s safety.
Key words: Campus Carry law, Texas Tech University, guns- Soraya Honarparvar


Gun Control
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This paper discusses the issue of the Campus Carry Law (CCL) in Texas Tech University (TTU). Campus Carry Law is a law that was passed in 2015 in Texas, which allowed students to carry guns on campus. I chose this topic since I was interested to know how other students and faculty felt about this new law, and whether this law was necessary on campus? In this paper, I used several sources, which supported my hypotheses. We also carried out a survey within the TTU campus. We had 148 respondents, which included faculty, staff and students. This study talked about different parties and who was most likely to handle guns. Also, it talked about how faculty and staff felt when their classroom had guns. Moreover, we found out women and men’s feelings about safety on campus and where guns should be allowed on campus. There were different opinions regarding carrying guns on campus. Some of them supported the law, and others opposed it. We learned from this survey that many people would like to support CCL, but they do not trust others who have guns on campus. -Samah
Keywords: Campus Carry Law, guns on campus,



A Study of Campus Carry
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In 2016, colleges and universities in Texas will have to allow concealed weapons at campus. This new law has stirred public discussions and has become a controversial subject. In Fall 2015 at Texas Tech University, an ESL advanced English writing class dedicated a research survey to the topic of campus carry. This survey was distributed to the community of Texas Tech University. The ESL class got some statistic results from students and faculty regarding their opinions about campus carry from different perspectives. (Xiaomiao Wang)

Keywords: Campus Carry Law, guns on campus.

 
Survey of Campus Gun Carry at Texas Tech University
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Texas passed the campus gun carry law and will allow campus gun carry beginning September 2016. A survey research was run in Texas Tech University. The research indicated that most students and faculty members were found to disagree with campus gun carry. Females were less likely to support gun carry and they are less likely to carry guns even if they are allowed to. We found some differences among students in different colleges of the university in terms of who is more likely to support campus carry. Campus carry opponents generally estimate a relatively lower amount of guns on campus. Texas Tech University and the State of Texas may need to reconsider about the campus gun carry issue.

Keywords: Campus Gun Carry, Texas Tech University, female
Author: Ruizhi Chen


Campus Carry in Texas Tech University
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The aim of this study is to examine the views of Texas Tech community about the campus carry law. The participants were 148 undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty at TTU. Also, each member of the survey team interviewed 12 participants. Most participants were Americans, but others were allowed to participate. The data were collected through a survey that has 26 questions, which was divided among eight international students, one teacher’s assistant and the instructor of the class. The main result of the survey showed that the majority of the TTU students and faculty were against the campus carry law. Also, this study showed that the majority of TTU population believe that carrying guns would make women safer. However, the majority of women at TTU were against campus carry. Also, Texan participants supported the campus carry law more than non-Texans.
(Ebtehal Alhashem)
Keywords: campus carry, guns, students, campus, Texas Tech University.


Study of the Opinion of Texas Tech University’s Community on the Issue of the New Campus Carry law
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This article explores the opinions of different groups of people among the Texas Tech University’s community about the new campus carry law that is supposed to be in effect starting January 2016.We conducted a survey consisting of 26 questions to investigate people’s opinion, and we managed to collect a total of 148 surveys. Although our sample was not completely representative of the community of Texas Tech University (TTU), we found out some really interesting results, the most important of which being the fact that although majority of the community don’t believe that more guns make the campus a safer place, they don’t trust others with guns. This fact may have some adverse effect on the campus, as many people will start carrying guns just to be safe around other people whom they assume are also carrying guns. The increase in the number of guns on the campus may eventually result in horrible incidents such as mass shootings or deadly assaults.
Pouria Nourian


Discussions on Gun Carry on Texas’ Campus
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This paper talked about gun carry issues in Texas. It discussed the background and history of usage of guns in Texas and gun accidents in the United States. Several authors’ opinions about concealed gun carry were summarized and analyzed also. In the paper, a survey in Texas Tech University was made about gun issues. We asked 26 questions about gun carry in this survey. Based on this survey, we got data and analyzed and talked about our hypotheses. The limitations of this survey and what we should do in the future are also presented in this paper. (Lu Guo)

Keywords: gun carry, campus, attitudes, survey, safe, danger