“content warnings ‘help ensure students who may be affected by specific issues are not subjected to any potential unnecessary distress.’”...
“expressions of Christian faith”...
"As part of inclusive and reparative description efforts, archival staff in Special Collections have recently begun to implement harmful content mediation features"...
"It didn’t occur to me until much later that we might have been part of the problem."...
“Content warnings enable students to make informed choices.”...
“The Student General Assembly Resolution is a gross attempt at speech and academic content policing which infantilizes students, relies on faulty claims that academic content worsens PTSD, and violates the academic freedom of faculty”...
“It is troubling how little academic freedom is regarded by many of the students here at Cornell”...
"Tragedy is a genre obsessed with violence and suffering, often of a sexual or graphic kind, and so some of the content might be triggering for some students"...
“The work includes passages depicting black slaves, who leave medieval characters ‘appalled,’ as well as Arab Muslim captives”...
"Staff also flagged 'outdated' language in the 1970s translation from Latin"...
“There’s a certain irony that students are now being issued trigger warnings before reading Nineteen Eighty-Four”...
"Warning signs were placed but they kept falling down, the student paper reported."...
"a new professor will be taking over the class previously taught by Bright Sheng to 'allow for a positive learning environment'."...
"working to determine the most appropriate way to address the concerns raised while still protecting the rights of everyone involved"...
"Warning an incoming class about the absence of intellectual safe spaces is one thing; providing those spaces is another."...
"Universities are not doing their students any favours at all by insisting that they be protected from reality."...
“I deserve to be able to participate in discussions without having to deal with physical anxiety symptoms, and so does everybody else”...
"Some individuals find the topic of transgender identity a sensitive one and may not want to attend this virtual event or engage in communication that may include trigger words."...
