Cornell president to student assembly: No, we will not place "trigger warnings" on education

According to the resolution, students would have the choice to “opt out” of exposure to traumatic content in class, “including but not limited to: sexual assault, domestic violence, self-harm, suicide, child abuse, racial hate crimes, transphobic violence, [and] homophobic harassment.” …

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On April 3, Cornell University’s President Martha Pollack and Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff released a statement denying the implementation of the resolution, citing the university-wide commitment to “establish[ing] the right of students, researchers, and scholars to select a course of study and research without censure or undue interference.”

President Pollack and Provost Kotlikoff further elaborated on the reasoning behind their decision, stating that “[the resolution] would have a chilling effect on faculty, who would naturally fear censure.”

They continued, “Learning to engage with difficult and challenging ideas is a core part of a university education: essential to our students’ intellectual growth, and to their future ability to lead and thrive in a diverse society.”

[Maybe these students should leave higher education and enter the real world instead. — Ed]

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