Posted on 11/10/2015 1:13:51 PM PST by Lorianne
Half a century ago, student activists liberated themselves—partly, at least—from in loco parentis: the paternalistic notion that college administrators should serve as watchful guardians, restricting students’ activities and rights in order to provide a safe environment for them, the way a mother or father would. Today, students across the country are determined to undo this liberation.
At Yale University, a group of aggrieved minority students have demanded the resignations of administrators who wisely rejected calls for emotional coddling. Nicholas Christakis, the master of Yale’s Silliman College, and his wife, Erika Christakis, an early childhood educator at Yale, conveyed to students that they should make their own decision about what Halloween costumes to wear, avert their eyes if they are offended, and make their own decisions about appropriate dress. Nicholas was subsequently mobbed by students, forced to apologize, and—if students get their way—could lose his job as master of Silliman.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about these students’ censorious actions is how profoundly conservative they are. By communicating an expectation that their master or president protect them from unsightly Halloween costumes, or promise them no more hurtful words will be said at their expense, students are essentially calling for a return to campus life under in loco parentis. They reject not merely a free and open campus dialogue, but adulthood itself.
A controversial column in The Yale Daily Herald makes this rejection undeniable:
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Oh, dear, a professor said a poopoo thing; I think I’m going to cry.
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Both mediocre schools with second-rate students.
This PC nonsense is taking us to a places I wouldn’t have thought possible. There’s a movement here in San Antonio to change the name of Robert E. Lee HS. Our former mayor, Julian Castro (think little cherub or model for the guy in tux on wedding cake) is supporting this absurdity. We’ve gone mad!
You are 18, stew pet.
You wanted to be an adult, independent and make your own decisions.
Well, you are welcome.
Act your age, tards.
At 15, I was in college and heard all kinds of theories on life.
When I piped up, people were really offendended, synthetically mostly.
Then again, I can do math and project outcomes from inception to action.
They probably grew up but, college is where you test your intellect against others and best them, while digging a certain depth of your personage, which can be either shallow or deep...
I hate my generation.
The campuses have long been an example of soft communism. The dear students just want a harder form in their quest to be protected and not have to think except in the prescribed manner.
Thank you Soccer Moms.
These are Hillary’s children.
It takes a village to raise a million moral cowards.
Liberal mothers, an oxymoron.
It is going to be a rude wakeup call for the cupcakes after graduation-they won’t be able to get a job with a company that operates in the real world, just like their compadres who are still living with their parents at age 30 and can’t even start a vehicle on their own...
DRAFT all the little creeps , boys and girls , and send them to fight ISIS in Iraq/Syria and the Taliban in Afghanistan . When/if they get back they will really have valid points to gripe about and a real perspective on the actual world out there
Yeah, and they'll head right to the polls and vote for whoever says they'll give them the most free stuff.
We should ban automatic transmissions. That would be a big step towards enhancing the personal liberty of the capable.
These kids lack any and all critical thinking skills. Second to is a complete lack of responsibilty or initiative to figure it out on their own. They require their hands to be held every step of the process. Then blame you for their failures.
The greatest curse I can imagine is that they should get everything they think they want.
What are these panty-waists going to do when TSHTF?
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