A College Strikes Back Against Safe Spaces

Katrina Trinko /  / August 25, 2016 / 

If you want to be unquestionably affirmed and unchallenged in all your beliefs and views, don’t go to the University of Chicago.

In a letter published by Intellectual Takeout, John Ellison, dean of students at the Chicago college, warns incoming students that there is no tolerance for the kind of student demands that have trended in recent years:

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.

Finally.

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