In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas

NY Times ^ | March 21, 2015 | Judith Shulevitz

[Second Amendment First]

The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies

Sounds more like kindergarten than college.

[Second Amendment First]

Perhaps the colleges should put a note on their diplomas indicating that the grad is prepared for life as long as it is not upsetting or troubling.

[Tax-chick]

Unless attendance at the debate was mandatory, why didn’t students who expected it to upset them simply not attend? I don’t seek out events or media that I expect to cause emotional distress. I have other options for my time and attention.

[gaijin]

Namby-pamby, creepy CHICKIFICATION.

Infantile ad absurdum.

Training young honkies to be dominated by Asians, who.rarely go in for this nonsense.

[Second Amendment First]

The little dears shouldn’t have to hear about anything upsetting. Go to Disneyland.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Victim” — some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.

[Second Amendment First]

Compared to these people Pajama Boy is a real he-man.

[Sherman Logan]

What was upsetting to them was that the debate was being held. Not that they were in the audience.

[Beagle8U]

I hope this Moron Factory being passed off as a university doesn’t get taxpayer funding?

[Sherman Logan]

Pretty good article for NYT.

[jonascord]

I’m all for this kind of coddling. It will ease things when they are herded into the showers...

[exDemMom]

This is ludicrous.

I’ll bet every one of those engaging in this childish behavior calls herself a feminist.

If any one of those “feminists” had a brain in her head, she would realize that by demonstrating that women are too childish and incapable of facing the adult world, she is making the strongest argument against granting equal rights to women that she could possibly make.

Instead of proving that women are strong and capable without a man (which seems to have been the foundational premise of feminism), they are proving that they are as dependent on a strong protector as any woman in the 1950s—they’ve just transferred that role to society at large, instead of their boyfriend or husband.

[Steely Tom]

Training young honkies to be dominated by Asians, who.rarely go in for this nonsense.

Not true.

Their ABC children are as likely to take it up as American young people of European descent. Personal experience in a large (1000 person) American Chinese community.

Young highly intelligent kids hear about it from their older siblings at elite colleges.

[Timocrat]

The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh,

Seriously ?

Thought this was satire but apparently not and parents are paying $50,000+ a year for their children infants to attend these places.

[combat_boots]

There had to be a committee to decide to do this. Funds were allocated. Time on task made available. Vouchers provided.

Wow.

[rockrr]

In College and Hiding From Reality

The default these days.

[ladyjane]

Tuition & Fees. Undergraduate tuition for academic year 2014-15: $46,408.

Room, board, and required fees: $11,994. Total cost: $59,428

[Steely Tom]

Tuition & Fees. Undergraduate tuition for academic year 2014-15: $46,408.

Room, board, and required fees: $11,994. Total cost: $59,428

If you've got it, flaunt it.

If you haven't got it, borrow it and flaunt it.

[Lazamataz]

The safe space, Ms. Byron explained, was intended to give people who might find comments “troubling” or “triggering,” a place to recuperate. The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma.

I now know why employers value me.

I am the last graduate generation that is worth a damn.