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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Precarious Weather
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:41:37 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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>
>Those of you not in the US may have missed the news tidbit that hit last
>week about my employer. The Dean of the University of Chicago, in his
>regular letter to incoming students, stated that UC was not going to offer
>"trigger warnings" or supply "safe spaces" for students, nor would they
>refuse to book a speaker simply because he/she might say something that
>someone might be uncomfortable with.  His argument is that college is a
>place where you learn, listen to other ideas, challenge them, and get ready
>for real life. Dealing with the uncomfortable is part of life.
>
>The response online has been overwhelmingly in support of that plan.
>


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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