Students Voice for Campus Carry isn't Influential

With open-carry laws being passed for Texas Universities, and being implemented August of 2016, there is much cause for concern. In the article "Students voice for campus carry isn't influential" published in The Shorthorn, a news source for UT at Arlington, questions whether or not the students' as well as staff members have any influential power at all over campus carry decisions. If any decision is going to be made, and implemented it rests on the shoulders of Vistasp Karbhari, the eighth President of the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as, the Board of Regents, or other governing boards. UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven sent a letter to Texas Legislators stating, "In light of all these concerns and apprehensions, I feel the presence of concealed weapons will make campus a less-safe environment." With Chancellor McRaven being solely against campus carry, he is wanting a majority, if not the whole campus, a "gun-free zone." Vistasp Karbhari went on to say, "I think the Chancellor speaks for all of us. That's the systems position." The author goes on to say that even if Karbhari was for campus carry, that it wouldn't matter much anyways since the UT System has a huge influence on UT Presidents. The UT Systems hierarchy is as follows, The Board of Regents, the Chancellor, and then the President. Even though the President is able to make decisions, his decisions can be overruled by the Chancellor, or the Board of Regents. And with the President not having a fixed term, who's job is subject to the Chancellors approval, he isn't even all that powerful in making decisions anyways. Either way the final say is given by the Board of Regents. This whole system is driven by people with power who don't even take in to consideration their student body opinions, or even the staff. It is a crazy system in which we live, where decisions are made by people who don't even consider the bigger picture.