2. LONELY AT AMHERST
2. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
3. nymag.com/thecut/2014/09/emma-sulkowicz-campus-sexual-assault-activism.html
4. www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/nyregion/at-princeton-addressing-a-racist-legacy-and-seeking-to-remove-woodrow-wilsons-name.html
6. www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2015/08/debating-the-new-campus-pc/402113/; www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/greg-lukianoffs-story/399359/;www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/campus-protests/419505/; and more.
7. www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/campus-protest-roundup/417570/
8. www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/debates-on-campus.html
9. whatwouldphoebedo.blogspot.ca/2008/11/thats-nice-or-thats-patronizing.html; whatwouldphoebedo.blogspot.ca/2008/04/more-from-pallor-studies-department.html
10. www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-year-of-the-imaginary-college-student
11. medium.com/@aaronzlewis/what-s-really-going-on-at-yale-6bdbbeeb57a6
12. www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/yales-unsafe-spaces
13. www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-new-family-feeling-on-campus
14. www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/the-false-promise-of-holistic-college-admissions/282432/
15. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000002769674/frustrating-black-hair-remark-at-harvard.html
16. www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/why-we-should-fear-university-inc.html
17. www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/opinion/david-brooks-the-big-university.html
18. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/brown-universitys-100-million-plan-to-be-more-inclusive/416886/; www.the-american-interest.com/2015/11/25/ivy-league-presidents-try-appeasement/
19. www.brown.edu/about/administration/institutional-diversity/sites/brown.edu.about.administration.institutional-diversity/files/uploads/Plan%20for%20Diversity%20and%20Inclusion%20with%20Letter%2011.19.15.pdf
20. www.forbes.com/sites/karinagness/2015/12/30/ten-most-ridiculous-college-protests-of-2015/
21. whatwouldphoebedo.blogspot.ca/2008/03/how-to-write-conservative-article-about.html
23. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/03/03/the-story-behind-northwestern-universitys-live-sex-class.html
24. www.theawl.com/2011/03/that-northwestern-human-sexuality-class-was-the-best-course-i-ever-took
25. whatwouldphoebedo.blogspot.ca/2011/03/already-dreading-search-engine-traffic.html
26. chronicle.com/article/Sexual-Paranoia/190351/; www.nationalreview.com/article/419163/laura-kipniss-incredible-ordeal-and-beginning-end-pc-david-french; www.nationalreview.com/article/429960/political-correctness-college-campuses-princeton-woodrow-wilson
27. www.nationalreview.com/corner/427740/campus-virus-jay-nordlinger
29. newrepublic.com/article/121353/college-safe-spaces-hypersensitivity-are-not-all-students-fault
30. On broader disparities between hook-up myths and facts, see Rachel Hills’s The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015).
31. ncac.org/resource/ncac-report-whats-all-this-about-trigger-warnings
32. www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities/
34. observer.com/2015/09/wesleyan-students-petition-against-free-speech/
35. jezebel.com/wesleyan-student-government-retaliates-for-dumb-op-ed-b-1737277336
36. www.economist.com/news/united-states/21689603-statement-heart-debate-over-academic-freedom-hard-say
37. www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/president/statements/node/620480
38. A sampling of “privilege walk” activities hosted or promoted by US colleges and universities: ginsberg.umich.edu/content/privilege-walk-activity; www.life.arizona.edu/docs/social-justice/privilege-walk--race.pdf?sfvrsn=2; faculty.wagner.edu/seeing-white/privilege-walk/; www.suffolk.edu/magazine/235.php#.Vf8noZ1Viko; newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/students-reach-mutual-understanding-201561; www.indiana.edu/~vpue/walk/walk.html; www.albany.edu/ssw/efc/pdf/Module%205_1_Privilege%20Walk%20Activity.pdf.
39. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/15/the-privilege-of-checking-white-privilege.html
41. www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/the-trials-of-alice-goffman.html
42. chronicle.com/article/Time-for-a-Teaching-Intensive/230605/; and the comment he’s referring to: chronicle.com/article/Time-for-a-Teaching-Intensive/230605/#comment-2058717483
43. www.facebook.com/michael.berube.169/posts/713427995450398?pnref=story
44. www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf
45. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/01/only-successful-people-can-afford-cv-of-failure
46. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/24/the-wild-world-of-oppression-studies.html; nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=61
47. tressiemc.com/2016/01/06/when-your-curriculum-has-been-tumblrized/
48. college.usatoday.com/2015/05/13/viewpoint-colleges-must-force-students-to-check-their-privilege/
49. www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-daum-mattress-girl-meets-boko-haram-survivors-20150526-column.html
50. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/; www.weeklystandard.com/how-babies-are-made/article/1061807
52. www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/05/how-to-improve-privilege-training-at-harvard/370927/
53. www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/us/with-diversity-comes-intensity-in-amherst-free-speech-debate.html
54. “The campus protests remind us that any system that requires exceptional fortitude from certain categories of people is an unjust one. The jargon that tried to name this injustice and serve as a tool in the struggle against it—white privilege, microaggression, safe space, etc.—caught on so fast because it named something that people recognized right away from their own lives. Like any new language that seeks to politicize everyday life, the terms were awkward, heavy-handed, and formulaic, but they gave confidence to people desiring redress for the subtle incursions on their dignity that they suspected were holding them back.” harpers.org/archive/2016/03/we-out-here/2/.
55. newrepublic.com/article/123912/whos-afraid-of-yale-student-privilege
56. www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/the-profound-emptiness-of-resilience.html
57. medium.com/@aaronzlewis/what-s-really-going-on-at-yale-6bdbbeeb57a6#.105qhkrz7
58. newrepublic.com/article/121540/privilege-checking-debate-often-overlooks-income-inequality
59. thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/against-students-stories/
60. www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-year-of-the-imaginary-college-student
61. www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/when-teachers-talk-about-their-students-on-facebook/282241/
62. I’m thinking both of the Laura Kipnis episode, and of the controversy over the “Dear Student” series in Vitae (chroniclevitae.com/news/964-dear-student-my-name-is-not-hey; www.jessestommel.com/blog/files/dear-chronicle.html).
63. www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/30/college-president-rejects-safe-spaces-writing-this-is-not-a-day-care-this-is-a-university
64. gawker.com/this-personal-essay-will-get-you-into-columbia-478217730; www.ivygateblog.com/2013/04/columbia-class-of-2017-post-their-application-essays-say-the-darndest-things/
65. gawker.com/i-kind-of-want-to-chastise-you-for-having-a-laugh-at-th-478484528
66. Think Tal Fortgang (www.thecollegefix.com/post/23072/) or Suzy Lee Weiss (www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/420733/student-describes-sexual-war-zone-campus-nathan-harden; www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2015/03/08/I-was-recruited-by-the-thought-police/stories/201503080008).
67. Conor Friedersdorf, at least, seems to get that criticism of student sensitivities shouldn’t be rounded up to denunciation of students themselves: “The purpose of writing about [Yale students’] missteps now is not to condemn these students. Their young lives are tremendously impressive by any reasonable measure. They are unfortunate to live in an era in which the normal mistakes of youth are unusually visible. To keep the focus where it belongs I won’t be naming any of them here.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-intolerance-of-student-activism-at-yale/414810/.
68. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/11/06/ben-carson-west-point-and-the-frantic-quest-for-adversity/
69. www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/02/whats-wrong-with-college-admissions/462063/
70. www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/12/the-false-promise-of-holistic-college-admissions/282432/