University of Chicago - No trigger warnings or safe spaces for you!

[pauldun170]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...go-safe-spaces-letter-met-20160825-story.html

"It is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive,"

 

[IronWing]

It's pretty sad that the University felt a need to write this letter.

 

[blakeatwork]

It's pretty sad that the University felt a need to write this letter.

Yet, it's not surprising. You can see it pervade the social fabric in all aspects, not just secondary education.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Good. I hope they have the guts to enforce it. Let the poor little snowflakes melt.

 

[kranky]

From what I can tell, it's a bold step for a university to lower the level of coddling of malcontents. Perhaps the beginning of a good trend, keeping the inmates from running the asylum. I'm quite impressed with the straight talking in that letter.

Perhaps some forward-thinking college will go the next step by dumping a bunch of costly activities, unproductive majors like "Gender Studies", fancy facilities and sports teams so they can offer a great education for $10K/year instead of $40K for the students who really only want a solid education without the cost of all the frills.

 

[zinfamous]

From what I can tell, it's a bold step for a university to lower the level of coddling of malcontents. Perhaps the beginning of a good trend, keeping the inmates from running the asylum. I'm quite impressed with the straight talking in that letter.

Perhaps some forward-thinking college will go the next step by dumping a bunch of costly activities, unproductive majors like "Gender Studies", fancy facilities and sports teams so they can offer a great education for $10K/year instead of $40K for the students who really only want a solid education without the cost of all the frills.

heh, well this is the UoC which famously dissolved its national champion football program (with the first ever Heisman winner) because such pursuits were deemed by that president as "unbecoming of academic pursuit."

...not that this saw any kind of reduced cost in education, mind you.

...oh that football team has been back for about 10 or 15 years now, maybe longer, but they are like division 6 or something.

 

[FerrelGeek]

This whole thing may have been nipped in the bud (or reduced) if Mizzou had thrown those brats out last year.

 

[shortylickens]

It's pretty sad that the University felt a need to write this letter.

Its not because of their own students. Its because other universities have done it so now they need to be clear on their position.

 

[master_shake_]

little brats are gonna go on strike and cost their poor fed up parents lots of money when they flunk out of their liberal arts course.

 

[soulcougher73]

Good. Sick of the coddling of kids. They are their to learn and one thing important to learn in life is you are not a special snowflake and your feelings will get hurt on occasion. You need to learn how to deal with that. Which is usually just move on as to not be bothered by whatever is hurting your feelings.

 

[Brainonska511]

Good. I hope they have the guts to enforce it. Let the poor little snowflakes melt.

From my time in college there, I think they do. A foundational idea at the UofC is free inquiry. You can't have that by allowing echo chambers that just tell people what they want to hear.

...oh that football team has been back for about 10 or 15 years now, maybe longer, but they are like division 6 or something.

It's been around for a while, but it's Division 3. When it was first formed long ago, we were actually a founding Big 10 member.

 

[TwiceOver]

I thought "home" was your "safe space"?

Those pussies at Depaul would quite literally explode if they received a letter like this.

 

[zinfamous]

It's been around for a while, but it's Division 3. When it was first formed long ago, we were actually a founding Big 10 member.

Glad to see you survived. I worked in the hospital there (research) from ~2003-2005. I recall that at the time, and maybe still, UofC has/had the highest suicide rate of all undergrad programs. Was it also your fallback school?

 

[Brainonska511]

Glad to see you survived. I worked in the hospital there (research) from ~2003-2005. I recall that at the time, and maybe still, UofC has/had the highest suicide rate of all undergrad programs. Was it also your fallback school?

I don't recall it having the highest suicide rate of all undergrad programs (I also graduated in 2010). I always heard it was about average, but there were running jokes (such as a winter break day in February colloquially called "suicide prevention day" among the student body) about the stressful, fast-paced environment that the undergrad program imposes which might have led outsiders to the assumption that suicide was more prevalent than at other schools. As far as choice, it was actually one of my top choices. I guess if you have dreams of only attending Caltech or Stanford, UChicago could be a fallback school.