In a letter sent to the class of 2020, Dean of Students John (Jay) Ellison said one of the defining characteristics of the school was its unwavering commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression. (...) “Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called “trigger warnings,” we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual “safe spaces” where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.” -- heatst.com Wow, I'm impressed. Hopefully other universities will follow this lead. |
| That's fine by me. |
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| This is great news Other universities and colleges should follow their example |
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| So a University doing what it should be doing--I like it. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| That's pretty rude. Bit surprised that the dean had to write a letter about it. Are safe spaces the norm in the US? |
| Good. There will be less retards in the world as a result. |
| This is disgusting. |
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| #Based We need more Universities like this one...hell I love the idea of free exchange of ideas without having to worry about a person's hurt feeling getting me suspended. If you can't handle that pack your shit and leave. |
BobbyFischerGAug 25, 2016 11:22 AM
| Good move, though I had no idea these "safe spaces" were a thing.My country has never had anything of the sort and I sincerely hope that never changes. |
Erg_OrgyAug 25, 2016 12:37 PM
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| someone mind telling me what these safe spaces are? I feel like if I google it panic rooms would be the result |
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| University of Chicago = B a s e d |
| People who put MAL stats in their sigs are losers lol |
Eminem said: It became an especially big thing at a lot of top universities. Since top ones were known to be doing it, a lot of others have followed suit.That's pretty rude. Bit surprised that the dean had to write a letter about it. Are safe spaces the norm in the US? I call it bluntly: if the institution makes heavy use of trigger warnings and safe spaces, and refuses speakers with views not supported by the local whiners contingent, it's not a real university. The number of "real" universities has dropped quite a bit these past several years. |
| I'm sure liberals will be all over this. |
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ThRippJck said: someone mind telling me what these safe spaces are? I feel like if I google it panic rooms would be the result It's an irl circlejerk pretty much, where you can't disagree with what the majority say. But cool I guess, hopefully this university will be the vanguard |
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Nico- said: holy shit, milo in washington? I would've hiked there just to see what a shitfest that talk would be lol.Can my university please do this? Our President probably won't let us do this though, she recently tried to get the College Republicans suspended for inviting Milo to speak at our school, I'm not kidding. |
| I support this. The world is full of billions of people who aren't you. You need to learn how to deal with at least some of them. |
| While this is good and all, it's a bit of a sad reflection that such an announcement is necessary in the first place. It shouldn't be a given that universities have "safe spaces." |
| Don't quote me on this but pretty sure most universities don't have a designated "safe space". There are a few that take great pride, and announce to the world, that they have safe spaces, but I think most just avoid the subject because as already implied, it doesn't really need to be said that such spaces are not needed. Although most universities have an on-campus police station as well as usually some type of counseling service, either of those could technically be "safe spaces", just not the kind with play-doh and cookies. |
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| GOOD! Hopefully other SANE universities follow suit and start acting like what they TRULY are... This isn't some fucking adult day-care, it's an institution of higher learning where you are SUPPOSED to be intellectually challenged! |
| This must be the work of that dastardly white supremacy group known as "Alt Right" that Hillary told me about. Hmph! |
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| What is this bullshit? A university in America actually being sane? Seriously, people need to learn that life isn't fair and "safe spaces" isn't gonna make it any fairer than it already is. If anything, life will just throw more shit at you since you're now an easier target. |
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| I agree that the ideas of "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" should be challenged and not uncritically accepted, but I also agree with an article that characterized the Dean's letter as shallow intellectual posturing. He doesn't actually analyze the ideas in a remotely serious way, nor is it clear why such an analysis would be part of a letter welcoming students; he's just being sanctimonious and signalling to fellow "true scholars" that Chicago vows to protect "freedom of inquiry and expression". A petty thing, in the end. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| Comedy gold from reddit Sure, I mean, who the hell cares if the lecture or material causes a student to have a severe anxiety attack that's potentially bad enough for them to be hospitalized. Who cares if the lecturer is presenting a theory that slavery wasn't so bad and that maybe it can help us out of today's economic crisis? God these people don't need an education they need professional help. |
aikaflip said: In a letter sent to the class of 2020, Dean of Students John (Jay) Ellison said one of the defining characteristics of the school was its unwavering commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression. (...) “Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called “trigger warnings,” we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual “safe spaces” where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.” -- heatst.com Wow, I'm impressed. Hopefully other universities will follow this lead. Heh heh, I saw this in a video the other day. I was surprised and relieved. There's still some damn sense in this country. SJWs might not take over after all. |
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Goofs said: Eminem said: slowly becoming the norm. it seems every other week there's a news article talking about safe spaces and trigger warnings in a new university. there's probably at least 40 major US universities with it, probably a lot moreThat's pretty rude. Bit surprised that the dean had to write a letter about it. Are safe spaces the norm in the US? but ask the overly sjw mal user and its "stop been paranoid SJW's don't effect anything outside the internet!" except all the evidence obviously. |
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| Thank goodness, finally. This should be done by all unis. |
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