The following passage, excerpted from an article that appeared in The Atlantic in September, 2015, is about the shift taking place on some American college campuses which are now implementing certain protocols in response to students advocating for inclusivity and the need for “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings”. Read the passage carefully and consider the pros and cons of “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings”. Then, write an essay that develops a position that responds to Lukianoff and Haidt’s claims that such policies, “[convey] the sense that words can be forms of violence that require strict control by campus authorities, who are expected to act as both protectors and prosecutors′′ (Lukianoff and Haidt, 2015). The dangers that these trends pose to scholarship and to the quality of American universities are significant; we could write a whole essay detailing them. But in this essay we focus on a different question: What are the effects of this new protectiveness on the students themselves? Does it benefit the people it is supposed to help? What exactly are students learning when they spend four years or more in a community that polices unintentional slights, places warning labels on works of classic literature, and in many other ways conveys the sense that words can be forms of violence that require strict control by campus authorities, who are expected to act as both protectors and prosecutors?
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