University to Freshmen: Don’t Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings

The Chicago Maroon ^ | Aug 24, 2016 | Pete Grieve

[NohSpinZone]

"WE DO NOT SUPPORT SO-CALLED 'TRIGGER WARNINGS,’ WE DO NOT CANCEL INVITED SPEAKERS BECAUSE THEIR TOPICS MIGHT PROVE CONTROVERSIAL, AND WE DO NOT CONDONE THE CREATION OF INTELLECTUAL ‘SAFE SPACES.'"

[NohSpinZone]

Hallelujah! Thank goodness for at least one sensible university out there.

[NRx]

Bravo!

[Jamestown1630]

This is great. Maybe some other schools will step up.

-JT

[Delta 21]

[newfreep]

[Gamecock]

[bgill]

Good on them for expecting their students to be adults and not whiney babies who need babysitting.

[Crucial]

What is a trigger warning?

[Robert DeLong]

In Chicago nonetheless, and people doubt there is a God that works in mysterious ways.

[pepsionice]

One has to ask if people realize the ultimate purpose of the university....as it was dreamed about and designed over 700 years ago. About the most closed-mind society that you could dream about.

[NohSpinZone]

Indeed - even using the word “freshmen” would require a trigger warning in many universities today.

[Mears]

A superb school making a superb decision.

Maybe the rest will follow,

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[FroggyTheGremlim]

Call me cynical but I'll believe them when Ann Coulter, or Clarence Thomas, or Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or ...

... are "allowed" to speak on campus.

[Robert DeLong]

A phrase posted at the beginning of various posts, articles, or blogs. Its purpose is to warn weak minded people who are easily offended that they might find what is being posted offensive in some way due to its content, causing them to overreact or otherwise start acting like a dipshit. Popular on reddit SRS or other places that social justice warriors like to hang out.

[Sicon]

What is a trigger warning?

Not sure. I think you have to be a spoiled, bed-wetting child of liberals to know.

[NohSpinZone]

If a student club on campus invites one of them, I’m sure they’ll be there. And, unlike the fascist institutions out here in California, the administration won’t buckle to the Nazis to “disinvite” them.

[PGR88]

Its already a very selective school - but now their applications will jump another 10-20%

[NEMDF]

Await the class action lawsuit and DOJ investigation into some form of disrespect and discrimination on the part of the university here.

[Dr. Sivana]

Hallelujah! Thank goodness for at least one sensible university out there.

Don't you believe it. The GALA (Gay and Lesbian Alliance") was running things back in the '80s. It has only gotten worse. The Chicago Maroon, the student paper, is a lefty rag with an even leftier rag ("The Grey City Journal") inserted weekly (last I knew).

[NEMDF]

The dean’s letter was very well worded, IMHO.