Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Services bans all head coverings (incl Muslim ones)

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College Bans Certain Head Coverings
Associated Press, January 5, 2010, 5:21 p.m. ET

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts pharmacy college instituted a ban on clothing that obscures the face, including face veils and burqas, weeks after a Muslim alumnus who is also the son of a professor was charged with plotting terror strikes.

The policy change at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services, announced in a campus-wide e-mail last month, went into effect Friday.

Michael Ratty, a college spokesman, said the policy was developed in the fall during the school's annual review of its public safety procedures and was unrelated to the arrest of 2008 graduate Tarek Mehanna.

''It is not directed to any group or individual. It applies to all students and faculty,'' Ratty said.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/05/us/AP-US-College-Head-Covering-Ban.html

Tarek's father Ahmed teaches at the MCPHS. This is probably the umpteenth paranoid incident in response to Islamic terrorism, but it happened at a college because of a professor's familial association with one of those monsters.

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1. I do not see enough there to support your conclusions