Local School Policies Trump any State Law in Oregon

The local news today in Oregon was awash about a story that took place at Western Oregon University with student who was cited by Campus Police for carrying a concealed hand gun that HE HAD A VALID LICENSE for.

 

It seems that the schools believe that the Oregon legislature granted any school the right to rewrite any law about carrying of weapons that is in the Oregon Constitution and in statues passed by the Legislature - even though within the law they cite granting them rights to write rules it states that they cannot overwrite anything that is law - course they did leave out the constitutional reference of weapon carrying and the right to self defense.

 

Since around this same Oregon statute for colleges about firearms, explosives, meetings, etc there are all sorts of other statues granting schools specific rights to make laws, what other laws are the schools allowed to ignore and change to their liking by just writing a policy and posting it in an un-findable manner on their web site or in a book stuffed behind an administrative desk?

 

You could walk onto a campus and break any number of their local unique laws customized by each campus on any whim - and their is no review by the community of these policies which have the force of law. Policies are by definition made by the local school administration and can be anything they want.

 

Its nice to know that the place where there is always talk about "academic freedom" those same people are very quick to take away freedoms they don't like you having - since it was not granted by them.