Posted on 04/04/2023 8:08:56 AM PDT by Twotone
Big-time colleges so rarely have attacks of momentary sanity these days that it’s highly newsworthy when one really does exercise good judgment.
Forgive, then, a few exuberant hosannas for Cornell University for rejecting a collegiate snowflake demand for mandatory “trigger warnings.” The school’s Student Assembly voted unanimously — doesn’t anyone think for herself anymore? — to “require instructors who present graphic traumatic content that may trigger the onset of symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to provide advance notice to students and refrain from penalizing students who opt out of exposure to such content.”
The resolution so often repeats the phrase “triggering content” that it reads like a self-parody. The student solons want a warning on a class syllabus for any content that includes a long list of disturbing subjects, including “domestic violence, self-harm, suicide.” Does that mean there should be a “trigger warning” for Hamlet (suicide)? How about A Streetcar Named Desire (domestic violence)? Do students really need mandatory written warnings before being confronted with such topics? Are their psyches so delicate that they must be allowed to “opt-out of exposure to triggering content?”
Seriously?
Here’s the good news: Unlike so many other college administrations that cower before such foolishness, Cornell stood tall. It rejected the students’ demands.
“ Academic freedom , which is a fundamental principle in higher education, establishes the right of faculty members to determine what they teach in their classrooms and how they teach it,” an administration email explained, “provided that they behave in a manner consistent with professional ethics and competence.” Professors of course can choose to warn students, but a formal requirement that they do so could “have a chilling effect on faculty, who would naturally fear censure lest they bring a discussion spontaneously into new and challenging territory...”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I should go back to college... with all the stupidity going on it must be possible to breeze through actual content.
I’d love to give some of them a “trigger” warning.
Yup—college applications should have a warning message:
“We are an insane leftist cult and differences of opinion are not tolerated here. If you want education instead of indoctrination do not submit this application.”
Colleges have completely outlived their usefulness.
Time to move or to a far less expensive, and productive, paradigm.
Just a guess. Cornell has been getting push back from alumni and employers that recruit from Cornell. Follow the money...
“Warning. You’re a pu$$7”
“Warning. Scenes of trans genocide by cisgender white supremacist male.”
Kindergarten Cop
Don’t let the lunatics run the asylum! Stand up to them and show the little bass turds who the rooster is in that chicken coop.
I grew up in an Era when newspapers ran pictures of dead bodies on the front page, newsreels showed, gangsters bodies and magazines had pictures of our dead military. Life ends in death so don’t hide from it.
Midterms - Trigger Warnings
Finals - Trigger Warnings
Papers - Trigger Warnings
Pop Quizzes - iIlegal no trigger warnings
Etc.
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