![]() ![]() In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia-and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent fled Title IX complaints against her. ![]() Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law-or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, photographs by Andrew B. Here's why that's disastrous for education - and likely to worsen mental health on campus. The Coddling of the American Mind The Atlantic | September 2015 In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like, and seeking punishment of those who give even accidental offense. ![]()
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