As an almost 40 something liberal bi chick... I am fucking sick of seeing “trigger warning” in front of every story I read. It is up to me to deal with my shit. I have been through REAL crappy stuff and part of dealing with things is to confront it. College classrooms, for the most part, ARE safe spaces. Debates have…

It seems to me that 20-somethings do have a certain amount of power, tenure or no. There in fact have been a few cases where tenured professors have been hauled before investigative boards based on the outrage of 20-somethings. While I am not saying that they hold a preponderance of power, let us not be naive in…

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…