Aspiring Teacher Too Inclusive, Cornell University implies by Kyle Perkins The inclusive plan of aspiring dean Vijay Pendakur offends the student diversity chief by including all students equally. What specifically he aims to do is include all students in the discussions he’ll have as a dean if elected. As inclusive as this plan is, it appears to not…
Blake Neff The University of Missouri (MU) is renaming its “Unisex” restrooms on campus in response to complaints that the current label isn’t inclusive. Henceforth, restrooms intended for use by both men and women will simply be labeled “toilet.” The change is apparently meant to accommodate student complaints that the “unisex” label, intended to encompass…
Welcome Letter To Students Warns Them Of Disagreement, Discomfort, and a Lack of “Safe Spaces” or “Trigger Warnings” By Avens O’Brien Trigger Warning: This piece includes mention of free speech, disagreement, controversy and common sense. Forgive the snarky opening complete with a trigger warning, but this week, the University of Chicago said something that…
by Blake Neff The dean of students of the University of Chicago (UChicago) is warning incoming students in a letter that if they want “trigger warnings” safe spaces in their college lives, they should attend a different school. “Once here you will discover that one of the University of Chicago’s defining characteristics is our commitment to…
Blake Neff The State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY-Binghamton) is offering a training class titled “StopWhitePeople2k16,” to instruct residential assistants (RAs) on how to deal with “uneducated” people who don’t believe in ideas like white privilege. The class is just one of several available to RAs at the school, and was discovered by the Binghamton Review, a…
Blake Neff In a concession to activists who claim the song is offensive, the marching band at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) will no longer play the song “Dixie” as part of its routine at sporting events. “Dixie” was first published in 1860, just prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War. Although…
By Blake Neff An official in the Washington education department has sent an email to the state’s schools urging them to prepare students for “increasing levels of fear and anxiety” because of the so-called “Trump effect.” Teachers are told to create “safe places,” plan for “recovery” from election rhetoric, incorporate election-related lessons in the classroom, and provide students…
By Elena Weissmann The Washington Post published an article in June featuring a list of universities and their respective number of reported rape cases for 2014. While Brown University and the University of Connecticut topped the list—at 43 reported rapes each—schools like Northwestern and Johns Hopkins nearly bottomed out at just three. Although the Post noted a degree of progress,…