Monday, May 19, 2014

The Times They Are a-Changin'

Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm: Colleges across the country this spring have been wrestling with student requests for what are known as “trigger warnings,” explicit alerts that the material they are about to read or see in a classroom might upset them or, as some students assert, cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of rape or in war veterans.

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