November 17, 2015 (vol. 125, iss. 31) • Page Image 4
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… shrouded in dialogues of reform recently. The collective feeling among students, particularly minority and marginalized students, is one of frustration and protest. For months, students have denounced…
… student athletes for granted. There should be no conflicting notion between encouraging students to speak their minds about important issues of race and equality and then labeling them as “coddled” or…
… a population too sensitive, too obsessed with being politically correct and too out of touch with the world need to stop operating under the presumption these students are blank slates without…
… any prior experience, who were entirely protected beforehand and are just suddenly rejecting the complexity and conflicts of the world. While some students are undoubtedly more privileged than…
… others, and this privilege certainly needs to be addressed, students, to varying degrees, have encountered their own experiences of sexism, racism, homophobia or classism earlier in their lives…
…. These experiences can’t be discounted. As Roxane Gay aptly states in a piece for the New Republic, “College students do, however, understand the real world because they aren’t just students. They do…
…, students are voicing these concerns because they’re aware of the injustice that needs to be remedied. A common critique of these groups is that these demonstrations are suppressing speech. Yet, those…

















































