In recent months there have been a number of stories about college students that leads me to believe today's students need to grow up and toughen up. Students are demanding so many protections against speech and activities of others that they should not need. In fact, being exposed to such speech and activity will better prepare students for life, during and after college.
Examples include:
Being offended by a movie at Michigan
Needing to cope with tough times at Columbia
Safe zones at schools to protect feelings
Fraternity hazing which can hardly be called hazing
I really think our students today are being overly protected, and demanding of more protection. When law students need to be excused from exams to deal with emotional distress over a legal matter involving crime, what does that say about their future prospects as lawyers?
If students in their late teens and early twenties cannot deal with hearing or seeing possibly offensive subjects, then how will they ever deal with jobs, families and society after college?
Isn't college intended to be a place where a variety of viewpoints, subjects and activities are to be learning exercises that will prepare you for life?
Our nation, our world, will be in deep trouble if people are taught and trained to avoid unpleasantness by retreating into a cocoon or burying their heads in the sand. People truly to embrace the reality that no one has a right to never be offended or troubled. Deal with it people.
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