I asked an OU student if they had created safe spaces there yet, and she acknowledged they had. I asked her what for, and she tried to explain that sometimes a person just needs to get away from a mean roommate or a negative atmosphere in the dorm. I told her that in my day the safe space was known as a library.
My follow-up would have been: “What do you plan to do when you enter the real world, where you can’t run away from your problems?”
In Columbia, Missouri we called it “The Heidelberg”. Providing safe spaces to students for 53 years and counting.