Again, I am not trying to say (nor do I think you are trying to say that this is what I am saying) that they have become all-powerful or nearly all-powerful. That said, they have changed the way classrooms are run and they things that happen in campuses. I would say sometimes for the worse. An example is a class that…

Reminds me of a kid in my AP English class who didn’t want to read “House of the Spirits” because... penis something? I don’t even remember. He got his dad and pastor involved and they tried to get the book banned. (Luckily they failed.) Meanwhile, as soon as the kid told the teacher he wouldn’t read the book because…

Oh my god. Honestly I’m pretty glad I graduated college before Tumblr was a thing...

I wanted to say something like this, but didn’t want the comments shitshow that would ensue.

Agreed. A classroom needs to be (in my opinion) a space where information about controversial subjects can be, well, taught. At the same time, I think you can also be cognizant of different students’ backgrounds and being mindful not to use potentially hurtful language. I think both can be managed? But I am not in…

I have had this happen to me as well. I can’t say that this is always how it works but it was clear to me that the student who pulled this on me just simply didn’t want to have to deal with the film I was showing. I say this because the week before I showed a film where she was amongst the students who complained that…

When college students are “occupying” professors’ and administrators offices and locking professors and administrators into buildings for not getting the trigger warnings and “safe spaces” they think they deserve (both of which has happened at my alma mater, a well-known university, during the last academic year) then…

We must both be enlightened because I agree that both sides have valid points. You can both be sensitive of the very real needs of people suffering from PTSD and the institutional issues that “safe spaces” are supposed to assuage, but that’s a very different thing from running away from subject matter or discussions…

As a current student at the University of Chicago I can agree with your BFs sentiment. It must be in the water. I thought the statement (and this is the first time I am seeing it) is balanced and very needed.

Yeah, that’s a terrible example, but I think the point that the “real world” does not adjust to you is valid. I think a better point would be the UChicago student I saw today deriding the lack of trigger warnings for spiders in a bio textbook given that he has arachnophobia. The spiders in your cupboard do not care…

As a college professor I can only speak from my experience and here it is: trigger warnings are used by students mainly as a way of getting out of work or for not having to read literature that they don’t want to. In legit cases (such as a veteran fresh from Afghanistan who didn’t want to watch a segment of Band of…

My university department just had a meeting about trigger warnings / safe spaces yesterday.

I think the whole “occupation of the president’s office” detail was the part they had trouble with... and they still let him graduate anyway.

Imagine the same policy told to the delicate flowers of Oberlin...

Pretty sure they wouldn’t have called a disciplinary hearing if he had expressed his thoughts in a newspaper column or radio show, or leaflets passed around the campus.

You’re splitting hairs. Bernie keeps putting Weaver in charge of his shit knowing full well what Weaver’s MO is. At some point, you have to accept the fact that Weaver is doing exactly what Bernie wants him to do.

Great. No one cares.

Bernie’s the guy at the top. Yet people keep pretending he’s somehow not responsible for all this shit.

More, please. Maybe use an example? I realize I'm being a bit thick but I really want to better understand this!

Good for them, because what I had read about this thing looked sketchy even before the resignations. Weaver may have the trust of the candidate, but he’s the wrong guy for this sort of job.