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  • Columbia University Advisory Board: Greek, Roman Mythology Needs "Trigger Warnings"

    05/14/2015 7:53:40 AM PDT · by rightistight · 46 replies
    Pundit Press ^ | 5/14/15 | Aurelius
    Columbia University students are calling on the college to provide trigger warnings when Roman or Greek mythology is read or assigned in class. In an op-ed published in Columbia’s student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator, students Kai Johnson, Tanika Lynch, Elizabeth Monroe, and Tracey Wang called for warnings in a piece titled, “Our identities matter in Core classrooms.” They explained they are writing on behalf of the Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board, or MAAB. According to the authors, a survivor of sexual assault was asked to read Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” in particular the myths of Persephone and Daphne. In the tales, rape...