In the ‘70s a student brought his tigress to CalTech every day. She’d lay near the front of the classrooms watching the profs and students, and then napping. Her favorite part of each day was midday, when he and she headed for the quad. Soon, twenty preschoolers were crawling all over her and she just loved interacting with them. At the end of each day she was so reluctant to go home he had to forcefully push her into his van.
That’s pretty great, and a metaphor for something.
Today’s college students want safe spaces, speech restrictions, and Pre-signed Sexual Consent Documents before the first spit is swapped.
Not of the same magnitude as bringing a tiger to campus...but in the late 70s I gave my Communication Class required 20-minute speech on how to clean my dad’s Ithaca Model 37. We had to clear it with the department chair, and I had to keep it cased while toting it across campus...no one even blinked.
Imagine trying it now.