Teh One Who Knocks
08-31-2016, 12:35 PM
By Emily Zanotti - Heat Street
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While the University of Chicago works to eliminate the concept of a “safe space” from its campus, other schools are wholeheartedly embracing the concept of walling off fragile students from uncomfortable ideas.
Sanford College at Duke University is creating one of the nation’s first physical “safe spaces” on campus—a room designed to help students cope with the horrors of university life, and the systemic oppression they might encounter on campus.
The room, called the “Sanford Safe Space,” will debut this school year in an unused faculty office. The “safe space” is, according to Sanford organizers, “an experiment in helping people heal,” and will feature an on-duty social worker to help Sanford’s hopelessly adrift millennials cope with feeling “marginalized.”
Sanford College will also set up “discussion groups” to help students understand complicated issues like “free speech,” and “microagressions.” The school says the “safe space” will be open to anyone who needs it, including conservative students.
The Sanford decision, of course, comes on the heels of a letter to incoming freshmen from University of Chicago Dean Jay Ellison warning students that UChicago would not condone hiding from intellectual discourse or running to safe spaces to avoid encountering differing opinions. The letter is still causing controversy on UChicago’s campus, as social justice warriors struggle to emotionally process the dean’s words.
According to leaders of UChicago’s student government, the Dean’s letter is “messed up” because the Dean has refused to give in to an endless barrage of social justice demands from activist student organizations.
Unlike UChicago, however, Duke University has a history of social justice-related disruptions, as well as several high-profile sexual assault cases. So far, however, Sanford College appears to be the first school to make a permanent safe space available to its students—though it likely will not be the last.
http://i.imgur.com/EF89HlYl.jpg
While the University of Chicago works to eliminate the concept of a “safe space” from its campus, other schools are wholeheartedly embracing the concept of walling off fragile students from uncomfortable ideas.
Sanford College at Duke University is creating one of the nation’s first physical “safe spaces” on campus—a room designed to help students cope with the horrors of university life, and the systemic oppression they might encounter on campus.
The room, called the “Sanford Safe Space,” will debut this school year in an unused faculty office. The “safe space” is, according to Sanford organizers, “an experiment in helping people heal,” and will feature an on-duty social worker to help Sanford’s hopelessly adrift millennials cope with feeling “marginalized.”
Sanford College will also set up “discussion groups” to help students understand complicated issues like “free speech,” and “microagressions.” The school says the “safe space” will be open to anyone who needs it, including conservative students.
The Sanford decision, of course, comes on the heels of a letter to incoming freshmen from University of Chicago Dean Jay Ellison warning students that UChicago would not condone hiding from intellectual discourse or running to safe spaces to avoid encountering differing opinions. The letter is still causing controversy on UChicago’s campus, as social justice warriors struggle to emotionally process the dean’s words.
According to leaders of UChicago’s student government, the Dean’s letter is “messed up” because the Dean has refused to give in to an endless barrage of social justice demands from activist student organizations.
Unlike UChicago, however, Duke University has a history of social justice-related disruptions, as well as several high-profile sexual assault cases. So far, however, Sanford College appears to be the first school to make a permanent safe space available to its students—though it likely will not be the last.