UIC Violates Trust

I was going to put heads should roll in the headline, but that has extra horrible connotations these days. But it does underscore the concern about preventing future school shootings, and UIC is engaging in typical bureaucratic double-speak. These "public servants" always figure they have a job for life, and they usually do. In this case they are putting our children's lives at risk, having hired and then rehired a man convicted of murder and involved in other probation violations, including keeping an extensive gun collection in his basement, supposedly his wife's. Sun Times:

But UIC officials have no plans to investigate or hold accountable any administrators who allowed him to return. Rosati declined to identify who else was responsible for Morano's return to the campus in 1999.

"I prefer not to disclose them; I'm not sure it would be constructive," Rosati said. "I don't know all of the people involved, but the names that I have heard are people who are dedicated 100 percent . . . to the safety and well-being of our community and our students -- and who make hundreds of decisions a week."

Blah, blah, blah. Maybe UIC should have more rigorous standard procedures and follow them. Obviously they can't adequately handle all those decisions. A routine background check for starters.

Rosati did not explain how the university found out that Morano had lied on his original job application or how Morano avoided being fired in 1997. Rosati emphasized that Morano was never accused of doing anything wrong around students or staff.

Still, the head of a prominent Chicago crimefighting group says UIC administrators need to be held accountable for allowing Morano to work on campus. "People who manage taxpayers' dollars have to be held to even higher standards and have to exhibit concern for the safety of the people on their property," said Jim Wagner, president of the Chicago Crime Commission. "And having an individual with this background employed in any capacity in an environment like that should be totally unacceptable."

Who protected this guy? Who is protecting UIC students?

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