University of New Mexico officials couldn’t get on the same page when they were asked why they had posted “trigger warnings” close to a pro-life student display.
Topic: trigger warnings
Mizzou to Students: Try to have a Counselor around in case You Get Triggered
Mizzou is encouraging students to have counselors around at events, just in case they are triggered (or in other words, offended).
University of Chicago: No Safe Spaces Here
Safe spaces are not going to appear on the campus of the University of Chicago, for the second year in a row.
Ex-Professor: ‘Cadre of Militant LGBT Students’ Pushed Me Out
An ex-art professor claimed that ‘militant LGBT students’ eventually forced him out of his job due to lack of trigger warnings in his courses.
US History Gone Missing at Colleges
Noted historian David McCullough, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, said that American history is missing in America’s college courses.
Wimpy Professors are the Culprits
From The Unz Review: No matter how you slice or dice it, today’s universities, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, are intellectual wastelands often more committed to propagating the Leftist faith than knowledge. The…
Scottish University Course Issued Trigger Warning for Bible Crucifixion Story
Nope, you can’t make this up. This from The College Fix: An “Introduction to the Bible” class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is reportedly giving trigger warnings to students before studying the crucifixion…
Northwestern President Approves of Safe Spaces, Calls Dissenters ‘Idiots’
Well, someone doesn’t like calling out ‘trigger warnings’ and ‘safe spaces’ for what they are: pandering to insecure and easily-offended people. In his convocation speech to new students Monday, the president of Northwestern University promised…
Student Op-Ed Pushes for Mandatory Trigger Warnings
Trigger warnings should be adopted, says student op-ed writer at George Washington University. Why? Because trigger warnings allows for freedom of speech and expression, the writer claims, but recent examples show it tends to suppress…
Ithaca College Professor No Longer Teaches Sensitive Material due to Trigger Warnings
It makes some sense not to teach sensitive material, especially if there is a survivor of a sexual assault or rape in her class, but they can leave the class for that lecture, can’t they?…
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Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
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Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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