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A College Strikes Back Against Safe Spaces
Daily Signal ^ | 8/25/16 | Katrina Trinko

Posted on 08/26/2016 9:25:40 AM PDT by milton23

If you want to be unquestionably affirmed and unchallenged in all your beliefs and views, don’t go to the University of Chicago.

In a letter published by Intellectual Takeout, John Ellison, dean of students at the Chicago college, warns incoming students that there is no tolerance for the kind of student demands that have trended in recent years:

Our commitment to academic freedom means that 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’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.

Finally.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: college; safespaces; university

1 posted on 08/26/2016 9:25:40 AM PDT by milton23
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To: milton23

Bully for him!


2 posted on 08/26/2016 9:32:46 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: milton23

I think the liberal loonies that run most of the Universities are starting to become of afraid they are going to be eaten by their own little monsters they have created.


3 posted on 08/26/2016 9:33:45 AM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: milton23

Now how long until the Title IX tyrants try something? I wouldn’t put it past them to lash out despite freedom winning (such as with Mark Perry’s victory over UofM).


4 posted on 08/26/2016 9:33:48 AM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: milton23

Sahweet!
About time for these Snowflakes to grow up.


5 posted on 08/26/2016 9:34:13 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Lera

I think they’re more afraid of losing their donor support. This has happened elsewhere — the PC garbage has made the alumnae either alienated or hostile.


6 posted on 08/26/2016 9:38:24 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: milton23

Methinks his job won’t last much longer.................


7 posted on 08/26/2016 10:05:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Lera

William F. Buckley — ‘Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.’


8 posted on 08/26/2016 10:11:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Red Badger

4-6 months. No more. Remember Lawrence H. Summers at Harvard.


9 posted on 08/26/2016 10:14:08 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Yep, that was what I was thinking...............


10 posted on 08/26/2016 10:16:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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