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amherst

Amherst, Harvard, Williams cited for ‘muzzling’ speech

BOSTON – Three prestigious Massachusetts colleges were singled-out for stifling free speech on campus over the past year, earning them "muzzles" from the Thomas Jefferson Center. Amherst College, Harvard University and Williams College were among 50 U.S. schools that curtailed students' First Amendment rights in 2015, drawing

political correctness

Is it any surprise that ‘helicoptered kids’ grow up to need ‘trigger warnings’?

There's an idea taking root on college campuses that students cannot be exposed to any ideas, words or phrases that discomfort them in any way, even if that wasn't anyone's intent. That's why schools are embracing "trigger warnings" — warnings placed

learning

College students need educators, not babysitters

Last year, four female students at Columbia University protested the teaching of classical mythology in the classroom, and insisted that the school implement a trigger warning for Ovid's "Metamorphoses" – one of the most notable works in Western culture – because a class was instructed to "read

racism

Colleges grapple with best ways to address race incidents

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, damage over a racist chant that was caught