Safe Spaces

The president of Wesleyan University argued in favor of safe spaces in a recent op-ed, suggesting that they  “promote intellectual diversity” and remove “the threat of harassment or intimidation.” Campus climates across the country after the spread of safe spaces, however, have shown an increase in sensitivity, hostility, and Groupthink among students, leaving conservative students to bear the brunt of “safe space policies.”

Students in Montgomery County schools in Maryland will be subject to sweeping new policies that cater to transgenders and provide safe spaces.

Planned Parenthood’s “Summer of Sex” campaign is drawing fire from some pro-life leaders who suggest the abortion-for-profit organization shows it is still in touch with its eugenics past with a tweet that singles out “black women” as being “sexy and sexual entities.”

Duke University brought miniature horses to campus this month to calm stressed students during finals.

Colorado State University has cautioned students against using the phrase “Long Time, No See” because it is racist against Asian students.

Disability activists have threatened to report TalkRadio host Julia Hartley-Brewer to the police for ‘hate crime’ after she violated one of their designated safe spaces by using the scary word “Boo!” at the Labour party conference.

Student activists at Manchester University have defaced a large-scale copy of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” in their Student Union building and replaced it with a poem by Maya Angelou. Kipling, they claim, is ‘racist’.

Last week, Dr. Bret Weinstein testified to Congress about the extreme limits on expression that exist in certain environments on college campuses around the country.

Universities must stamp out the “institutional hostility” towards free speech that has taken root on campuses, the universities minister has demanded ahead of a free speech summit.

MPs and Peers have said that universities cannot be “safe spaces” from the free exchange of ideas, warning that university “red tape” and students’ attempts to shut down debate they oppose was leaving a “chilling effect” on free speech.

A Labour peer and university boss has said her institution is “decolonizing” it’s curriculum, that student should skip educational events that offend them, and that counter-terror laws silence Muslim and black students.

$200,000 salaries for administrative university and college staffers are drivers of rising tuition costs, said Victor Davis Hanson on Tuesday. Donors and alumnus networks should withhold funding from corrupted left-wing schools in order to compel political changes, he added.

WATCH: Fordham Students Kicked Out of On-Campus Coffee Shop over ‘MAGA’ Hats

The Wall Street Journal praised online “safe spaces” as an “answer to the ever-more-hostile internet” in an article on Sunday.

Planned Parenthood is coming to the aid of those who may need a “safe space” at the Thanksgiving dinner table surrounded by family members who may not be politically correct enough for them.

A number of marshals policed a speech at King’s College London (KCL) by Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, after his appearance was judged to pose a risk to the university’s “safe space” policy.

A group of Turning Point USA activists at Kent State is facing a massive online backlash after wearing diapers on campus to protest safe space culture.

Universities must uphold free speech and open debate or face fines and be blacklisted by a new higher education regulator, the government had revealed.

Mike Rowe, former host of the television show Dirty Jobs, fired back against a critic who accused him of siding with white nationalists in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

University of Chicago Dean Jay Ellison reminded incoming freshmen in a recent welcome letter that the prestigious university doesn’t permit safe spaces.

British universities must take action to halt a growing climate of censorship on campus, Baroness Ruth Smeeth has said, warning that authorities are pandering to the demands of “ever more censorious students.”

Columbia University Professor John McWhorter argued that university campuses are the ‘least racist spots on Earth’ in a recent interview with New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.

Evergreen Biology and Agriculture Professor Mike Paros says he is expecting a backlash from the campus community now that he has publicly defended his colleague, Bret Weinstein.

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens told graduating students at Hampden-Sydney College, an all-men’s school in southern Virginia, to leave their safe spaces as part of his commencement address.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “First 100 Days,” Harvard University Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Dr. Cornel West stated he’s “committed to unsettling students in public spaces…you want to have a commitment to unsettling and unnerving

Students at Northern Arizona University are demanding the resignation of President Rita Cheng after she condemned campus safe spaces.

An organizer for a safe space event held in response to President Trump’s executive order on immigration refused to speak with a reporter, claiming that doing so would make her feel unsafe. Last week, online conservative campus watchdog Campus Reform reported

Maybe most Americans are not quite at the point of ditching freedom of speech, but universities are most certainly leading us that way.

Kyle S. Reyes, CEO of The Silent Partner Marketing, claimed he makes potential employees take a “snowflake test” before hiring them, in a new article for the New Boston Post.

“Put on some boots and learn how to deal with adversity” said Jones.