What's funny is that the cooked rolls really aren't any safer. My understanding is that when you're pregnant, you're more susceptible to foodborne illnesses and therefore have to be extra-careful to avoid food poisoning.

What "bad decision" are you referring to? The decision to have sex? To carry to term? To keep the baby? Are you assuming they all didn't use birth control?

If there was a feature on kids who had outside commitments - caring for ailing parents, or having to work full-time to support the family, etc. - that focused on how their lives were extra-difficult but they still managed to graduate on time, would you also object?

Yeah, I mean if the yearbook did a feature on kids who also had full-time jobs for whatever reason, there wouldn't be such an outcry. The "the yearbook is for school-related achievements only!" argument is bogus.

Ugh I wish someone had told me this sooner. I used a baking soda/conditioner paste to clean my scalp and it dried my hair out so bad.

I love the Queen Helene ones! The grit is super fine and you only need a pea-sized amount for your whole face. I also just use a very light touch with it (think buffing, not scrubbing). I even use it on my lips to exfoliate them.

I used to walk around singing that song when I was doing chores, but the dog would bark at me.

My Spotify is constantly recommending bad pop music to me, because I use it for my workout playlist which is heavy on the Ke$ha and Pink.

That sounds like a really good professor. I think a combination of a warning - "Tonight's assigned reading is Chapter 11 which, heads-up, contains a pretty graphic scene of racial violence." - coupled with a professor who tells the class at the beginning of the semester that some of the material will be disturbing and…

I think the university could make it a common practice, or encourage professors to do so, without flat-out requiring it, yanno?

I think it would be pretty simple for a professor to say "I will provide warnings for things like graphic violence, brutality, rape, and vivid depictions of war, but if you have any other specific triggers of phobias, come talk to me."

Do you honestly think that 20 students in a class of 50 have some sort of trauma-related disorder that will be triggered by the course material? Really?

That's really tough. Is it an elective or a required course? If it's an elective, and the class description is pretty clear on what the class will entail, I think it's fair for the student to take most of the responsibility. I think what you suggested - saying at the beginning of the course that the class will address…

Well, to draw a closer comparison - I may write an article about, say, the way rape is portrayed in the media, but that doesn't mean I would discuss a particular scene and the details in a casual environment. (Semantics, maybe).

Possibly, but that doesn't mean that the university has to follow their definition.

How common are students like your example A? Do you really think they're 3-5 times more common than students who actually have PTSD or other trauma-induced disorders?

And I think it's easy to put in place a common-sense policy that warns (key word here) students of potentially triggering material. I don't think saying "this book contains a lynching scene" and allowing someone to skip that day's class discussion will lead to students getting a free pass because they disagree with…

I'd like to think that in a professional environment you can discuss TV shows without getting graphic.

Well no, you aren't (and shouldn't be) required to provide warnings for everything (people mention things like songs that might cause them to have a PTSD flashback). But why not warn for some of the really obvious, common things? Depictions of sexual assault, rape, graphic violence, etc?

Man, my last shift waiting tables ever was Valentine's Day - and even then I agreed to do it because I liked the owner and wanted to do her a favor.