Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America’s towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship.

Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Twitter trackers. Biometrics. Student security consultants. Professors of homeland security studies. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America’s towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship, its public space and its cyberspace. But the age of (in)security had announced its arrival on campus with considerably less fanfare than elsewhere -- until, that is, the “less lethal” weapons were unleashed in the fall of 2011.

... seven steps the Bush administration had taken to create a homeland security campus. Four years and a president later, Repress U has come a long way. In the Obama years, it has taken seven more steps to make the university safe for plutocracy. Here is a step-by-step guide to how they did it.

1. Target Occupy ...

2. Get a SWAT team ...

3. Spy on Muslims ...

4. Keep the undocumented out ...

5. Keep an eye on student spaces and social media ...

6. Coopt the classroom and the laboratory ...

7. Privatize, subsidize, and capitalize ...