Student "safe places"

[Trigg]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...fe-spaces.html

At Brown University – like Harvard, one of the eight elite Ivy League universities – theNew York Times reported students set up a “safe space” that offered calming music, cookies, Play-Doh and a video of frolicking puppies to help students cope with a discussion on how colleges should handle sexual assault.
A Harvard student described in theuniversity newspaper attending a “safe space” complete with “massage circles” that was designed to help students have open conversations.
This hesitancy to engage in the dialogue of debate – and, in its most extreme form, the sense that hearing opposing opinions can cause damage to the psyche – has seeped from the campus to the classroom.

I've asked my kids about this new idea that college kids need to be free of controversy and need these "safe zones". My son, who attends a predominantly engineering school, simply says they're to busy with hard classes to whine about this stuff. My daughter attends a more liberal college, but we're in Indiana so this isn't going on at her school either.

Personally I think these kids have been mollycoddled their entire lives by parents with more money than sense and in the absence of real racism in their lives now need to look for "micro aggressions" or "trigger words" in order to have something to complain about.

[Trigg]

A chapel sermon on love left a student at Oklahoma Wesleyan University feeling “offended” and “victimized.”
But instead of capitulating to the offended young scholar, OWU President Everett Piper pushed back with a blistering rebuke of what he called “self-absorbed and narcissistic” students.


The student felt offended because the “homily on love made him feel bad for not showing love,” he explained. “In his mind, the speaker was wrong for making him, and his peers, feel uncomfortable.”
Dr. Piper offered some wise advice for the young man.
“If you want the chaplain to tell you you’re a victim rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university you’re looking for,” he wrote. “If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place.”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/...l?intcmp=hpbt4



I dare say these are the same kids who's parents praised them for their participation ribbons in little league.

[Bilgerat]

[glockmail]

My how things have changed. When I was in college we went out of our way to offend people. I had an acquaintance who wrote a comic strip in the university paper, and he was always soliciting us for ideas. The response letters were priceless: "I am deeply offended by the latest..."

[Gunny]

My how things have changed. When I was in college we went out of our way to offend people. I had an acquaintance who wrote a comic strip in the university paper, and he was always soliciting us for ideas. The response letters were priceless: "I am deeply offended by the latest..."

My "college" was called Marine Corp Recruit Depot. We didn't have to worry a whole lot about what to think. If we were supposed to think, they'd be sure and tell us how.

[Bilgerat]

My "college" was called Marine Corp Recruit Depot. We didn't have to worry a whole lot about what to think. If we were supposed to think, they'd be sure and tell us how.

Seems to me that's how it went at Cape May too

[gabosaurus]

My "college" was called Marine Corp Recruit Depot. We didn't have to worry a whole lot about what to think. If we were supposed to think, they'd be sure and tell us how.

It is only natural that Marine lifers become conservatives. In both instances, you get used to someone telling you how to think.

Anyone who doesn't think college students need "stress free" zones has never been to college. Or else they didn't take it seriously.
A lot of kids go to college so they can drink, party and generally raise hell. They don't care about classes or grades.
If you went to a major university with the intention of obtaining a degree, particularly with good enough grades to enter grad school, you encountered plenty of stress.

[Elessar]

Seems to me that's how it went at Cape May too

Got that right Jon!

And I trained recruits there!

[Elessar]

It is only natural that Marine lifers become conservatives. In both instances, you get used to someone telling you how to think.

Anyone who doesn't think college students need "stress free" zones has never been to college. Or else they didn't take it seriously.
A lot of kids go to college so they can drink, party and generally raise hell. They don't care about classes or grades.
If you went to a major university with the intention of obtaining a degree, particularly with good enough grades to enter grad school, you encountered plenty of stress.

I went to college....Phys Ed and English major.
The 'stress free zones' were the student center or the gym / pool.
This concept now is so bogus....it just teaches them to isolate
and further act like spoiled spoon pounding brats or racists.

[Bilgerat]

Anyone who doesn't think college students need "stress free" zones has never been to college.

[Perianne]

Anyone who doesn't think college students need "stress free" zones has never been to college. Or else they didn't take it seriously.

When I was in college, my stress free zone was going to work after school so that I could save enough money to pay next semester's tuition....and also to eat. I didn't have time to cry about getting my feelings hurt.

The last semester we had clinicals (hands-on nursing practice). I had to arrange special favor and do extra work because I was due to give birth before the semester was over. Broke, working 40+ hours per week, full time college, pregnant.... yeah, I had stress. But I had to suck it up in order to succeed as an adult.

[gabosaurus]

I went to college....Phys Ed and English major.
The 'stress free zones' were the student center or the gym / pool.
This concept now is so bogus....it just teaches them to isolate
and further act like spoiled spoon pounding brats or racists.

"Stress free zones" are not for use 24/7. They are just places to forget your troubles for a while.
Dorms particularly are very loud. The library is extremely busy. The student center is loud and busy.
Cal-Berkeley had cafes where silence was the general rule. My favorite had bean bag chairs that you could sink into and read/study.
Sometimes isolation is a good thing. Especially during exams.

[Bilgerat]

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[CSM]

Thank goodness I was able to spend 28 years in the Army. Completely stress free there. LOL!!!

[Gunny]

Thank goodness I was able to spend 28 years in the Army. Completely stress free there. LOL!!!

Ummm ... yeah.