Posted on 08/25/2016 6:00:12 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Students at the University of Chicago have been warned not to expect safe spaces or trigger warnings in the wake of several disrupted events at the institution at the hands of protesters.
University officials are said to have told first-year students starting in the fall of its commitment to freedom of expression, saying it wanted civility and mutual respect but that it would still seek out ideas or opinions that were unpopular.
The move comes after three high-profile incidents this year in which speakers invited to the university were interrupted or shut down and amid a trend of increasing political correctness on campus.
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College students are so ####ing open minded /s
Yes, that’s why they have no brains.
Would Milton Friedman be embarrassed?
It’s about time that this happens. That it has happened in Chicago of all places is mind boggling.
Students RISE UP!!No more anti-free speech.
The students are in their minds fighting “hate” and the source of all evil in the world, bad viewpoints, as taught by their teachers.
They’ve picked up the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that words affect thought, and if we ban words, then we’ll eliminate the bad ideas - hence the seriously intense policing of speech in all forms by the left on the assumption doing so will make the world a better place.
Their so open minded their brains fall out.
"... In May, Student Government (SG) passed on an opportunity to reaffirm the University’s commitment to free speech when members voted to indefinitely table a resolution that would have condemned any student who “obstructs or disrupts” free speech."
"The resolution, which was presented to SG by the president of the College Republicans club, second-year Matthew Foldi, came in the wake of three high-profile incidents in which speakers invited to campus were shut down or interrupted by protesters."
"In February, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez had to leave the Institute of Politics (IOP) after she was confronted by Black Lives Matter protesters in the audience who held up signs started chanting."
"The next day, the University of Chicago Police Department had to end an event with Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights activist and critic of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement, after protesters disrupted his speech."
"Then in April members of the Armenian Students Association interrupted an event with a scholar who they say denies the Armenian Genocide. Again, we don’t want to run long, but we could be more explicit about what happened."
"After the Alvarez event was shut down, David Axelrod – Director of the Institute of Politics and CNN Senior Political Commentator – wrote a letter to the editor in The Maroon: “The great irony is that, through their actions, [the protesters] ensured no one would get the chance to ask Ms. Alvarez challenging questions...”
I’m embarrassed at how little I know about Chicago.
Didn’t know the gangsters that came from there and now I dont know a college that everyone else seem to know and seem to be of some prestige.
Have to head that way one day.
Spent about 20 percent of my time the last 17 years working in Chicago while my home was in Kansas City. Had an apartment and a car there for some of that time.
For a big city run by the Dem machine it has its good points. A lot of good people working there for the money but with a blind eye to its cancerous impact.
You have a death wish?
My nephew saw a concert there last summer. Said the area he was in was very nice.
I guess you did a lot of flying back and forth.
I hear there’ a nice part :)
And I talk a big story but I’m just like my pop, God bless his soul, for better or worse.
He would have been content to live in 10 square blocks of Brooklyn his whole life but my mother planned the vacations and he was more than glad to do it for her and the kids.
I’m a neighborhood guy myself on Staten Island.
Not well travelled. I guess not everyone’s meant for it.
When I was in high school a protest walk out had been called. My Russian teacher let us all know there would be a test that day that would weigh heavily on our final grade. I showed up for class
Great place to visit. The food is excellent and the museums and entertainment are top-notch. Getting around is easy on public transportation. Living there is fun, but it gets stale after a while.
The U of Chicago is a great institution smack dab in the Southside. Walk one block west from the campus, which, as an aside, has one of the greatest collections of antiquities from Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Persian, and Mesopotamian Empires in the world, and you are right in the middle of it, where no one has even heard of the Assyrian Empire.
Conservative speakers still need to bring their bodyguards.
Well, you did say you were embarrassed!
Just a guess that college admins are seeing their gate keeper function being challenged since they are turning into day care centers for the mentally and emotionally impaired. What employer wants a damaged individual on their hands just because that person has a crap diploma?
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