The term “safe space”, a supposed haven where students of minority and marginalization can feel free to express their ideas and be themselves has started a movement across college campuses nationwide. The newfangled movement is driven largely by students who wish to scrub campuses clean of offensive or discomforting topics. Safe spaces emerged during the post-Civil Rights era where women, LGBTQ, and racial minorities grew in presence on campuses; however, today they serve as refuges for like-minded people who don’t feel the need to explain or defend their personal beliefs. Recently, the safe space debate has taken a controversial turn: arguments and cases have been created over whether safe spaces provide a supportive environment or cultivate …show more content…
As previously mentioned, Hannah Miller asserts that the incorporation of safe spaces is a beneficial and advantageous asset for students. Safe spaces yield an opportunity to garner sympathy and understanding from compassionate peers who have undergone similar experiences, as a result, these supportive environments increase the happiness of marginalized students (Source A). While this may be true, safe spaces impede fully inclusive dialogue, which allows students to protect themselves from engaging in difficult topics. This ignorance hinders the expansion of knowledge and aids the development of myopic views which students acquire through the use of safe spaces. Not only do safe spaces promote close- mindedness, but they also encourage isolation between students and BLANK subjects, as illustrated in Matt Davies cartoon (Source D). Furthermore, while safe spaces can be hubs of conversation, they are however, conversations between like-minded students (Source C). The aforementioned editor, Jonathan Sperling, reiterates the exigency in which college students must experience the plethora of distinct views, opinions, and beliefs of other pupils, in order to gain a well-rounded perspective on different subject matters. Additionally, students are able to learn and grow from these various viewpoints, accumulating an intellectual insight which will better equip them to handle “real world” challenges (Source
A Misleading Attacks on Tigger Warnings, and Safe Spaces In the article “Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Free Speech, too” by Sophie Downes, published in the New York Times. Downes argument in the letter sent out by Dean Ellison by the University of Chicago. The letter states that trigger warnings and safe spaces were an issue from deterring students from having free speech so therefore would not be supported by the University of Chicago campus anymore.
Should the US government have the right to track every single phone call we ever make? Does that sound like a good enough reason to try and prevent terrorist attacks on our country? Congress passed a law called the USA Patriot Act in 2001, 45 days after 9/11. This act is a series of laws were passed in an attempt to prevent terrorist attacks in the future. There are different ideas on whether the USA Patriot Act is a constitutional act or if it is a complete violation of the US Constitution.
Students these days are shielded from real world issues. There is a misconception that young people are fragile, so reality is sugar coated. The truth is, life can be a test for survival. Jeannette Walls knows this all too well. Walls experienced a far-from-normal childhood with far-from-normal parents.
Stephanie Young and Amie McKibban were new to the faculty at the University of Southern Indiana (USI) in 2009. They mutually decided that there was a need for “Safe Zone” trainings at the University. The paper they published is distinctly written to explore the tensions that both authors experienced in establishing a Safe Zone training program at USI. The authors use qualitative methods of recording their experiences and how they relate to one another, and the wider social implications their experiences were based around. The bulk of the paper is spent discussing how they collaborate, sometimes with more success and other times with less.
We live in a world that is continually becoming more and more sensitive to the opinions and controversies going on around us, especially in the setting of a classroom. Which has lead to controversy and rigorous discussion on whether or not students should be given a warning on when said topics could be spoken upon through what is called a “trigger warning”. As well, when a sensitive topic is to be spoken on in class, there is a growing concept of having a “safe space” to retreat to if needed. Some of the main topics that may be threatening towards someone’s mind set sparsely include: sexual assault, suicide, murder, genocide, war, and any other horrors that may have the ability to bring a student back into a tragic event or occurrence they have gone through. Although “trigger
Humans have been dreaming about space travel since antiquity. The Chinese used rockets for ceremonies and military purposes centuries ago, but only in the final years of the 20th century were rockets manufactured that were powerful enough to outstand the force of gravity to reach orbital velocities that could open space to human exploration. A lot of scientists have devoted their lives to revealing the secrets of space and finding the answers to questions related with human existence, space expeditions, the existence of other civilizations, and the structure of the universe. Fortunately enough, due to the developments of such sciences as physics, chemistry, astrology, mathematics and so on, scientists and engineers worked together and managed
As you can perceive, unlike Campus, with smaller class sizes Haysville High gives each and every student an opportunity to have one on one time with their teachers. To put it differently, Campus High is overpopulated, and the school seemed “crammed.” For instance, there are countless classrooms at Campus that are so full; they do not even have enough desks for the students. Thus, Haysville High is diminutive enough to focus attention on every student, and makes all of us feel accepted. For all these reasons, Haysville High’s environment is more conducive to learning than Campus is.
Students these days are shielded from real world issues. There is a misconception that young people are fragile so reality is sugar coated. The truth is life can be a test for survival. Jeannette Walls knows this all too well. Walls experienced a far-from-normal childhood with far-from-normal parents.
The above incidents indicate that hate speech on the college campus is very common and serious. Some people argue that we must impose some sort of punishment for perpetrators of offensive speech on campus, whereas some oppose regulation on offensive speech. Mari J. Matsuda, the author of the article, “Assultive speech and academic freedom,” is a supporter of hate speech regulation on campus. First, she argues that hate speech on campus violates American democracy since it infringes on the rights of minority students to have equal access and equal participation in the college (Matsuda, p.150). She mentions that it is unlikely for most university students of color to experience campus life without coming across offensive speech or harassment (151).
(99) The disruptive and insistent behavior of the boys in Orenstein’s essay shows how the hostile environment forces girls to pull back from participating equally. With this example she tries to appeal to the audience’s emotions by showing the insensitivity girl’s face while participating in co-ed learning environments. Similarly, Stabiner believes the environment in which a student learns is an important component to how well they do as well. She gives an example from what she observed at TYWLS, she states, “the students at TYWLS might do well because of smaller class size, passionate teachers and an aggressively supportive atmosphere.” (Stabiner, 328)
TRIGGER WARNING: This essay or paper,will include discussion of ideas that may conflict with your own. Universities across the United States are in a time of great turbulence. This is due to the fact that they are now being held responsible to be sensitive to students needs and experiences. As a result, Universities are dealing with the unintended consequence that students are able to dictate course material based on their comfort level and/or beliefs.
For the sake of campus protestors and their professors across the country, it’s time to make something clear: there’s no such thing as hate speech. That should go without saying, since freedom of speech and free inquiry is supposed to be what college is all about. But the recent spate of violent student protests, from the University of California at Berkeley to Middlebury College in Vermont, have been met with a collective shrug from an alarming number of college students, professors, and administrators who seem to be under the impression that violence is okay so long as its purpose is to silence “hate speech.” By hate speech, they mean ideas and opinions that run afoul of progressive pieties. Do you believe abortion is the taking of human life?
Freedom of Speech Freedom of speech is the freedom all people have, to express what they consider and express any opinions. It is an ability to express our opinions freely without being punished or censored. All people throughout the world are entitled and must have right to freedom of speech. However, how much do we know about freedom of speech: when did it occur? Does every countries have it?
Mount Holyoke College provided an intellectually stimulating and socially inclusive and welcoming space. I felt safe to finally come out and express myself the way I am in this new environment. Although I became more comfortable with myself, others’ biases and intolerance against me did not wane. I became a target of racially-charged, homophobic cyber attack in my junior year. From this experience, I realized that even at a liberal, embracing institution like Mount Holyoke College, my presence was an anomaly.
Frankie Evens lost everything with only two words “I’m gay”. She’s been gay her whole life, but with her homophobic parents, she was unable to tell anyone except for her younger brother and her best friend. Both of which accepted her no matter what. Soon after coming out by accident, Frankie’s parents kicked her out which forced Frankie into foster care. Even with everything happening, Frankie only worried about her brother, who was a bisexual boy left alone in an unsafe home.