No Exam Delay for Oberlin Students 'Traumatized' By Grand Jury Decisions

Last week,
Robby wrote here about how “students are so coddled by the
feelings-protection regime at university campuses that they now
believe disheartening national news developments—such as the grand
jury decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases—entitle
them to final exam extensions.” Columbia Law School
delayed final exams for students who felt unable to take them
in the wake these developments. Students at Harvard and Georgetown began demanding their
universities follow suit.

One might think that Oberlin College, known for it’s
ultra-crunchy reputation, would be all about this. At least one
professor at Oberlin, however, is having none of it: 

So, that made me laugh enough to want to pass it on. Notice that
the student who sent the email isn’t writing on behalf of herself
but that of black students she just knows must be too
traumatized to take exams and yet unable to speak for themselves.
Good for Professor Raney for quickly and succinctly putting an end
to this nonsense. 

After receiving his professor’s response, the student posted the
exchange publicly to Facebook, with the message: “TRIGGER WARNING:
Violent language regarding an extremely dismissive response from a
professor. This is an email exchange I had with my professor this
evening. … We are obviously not preaching to the choir.
Professors and administration at Oberlin need to be held
accountable for their words and actions and have a responsibility
to their students.”

But I don’t mean to pick too much on this student, an Oberlin
freshman. This is the environment she’s inherited and set of social
cues she’s learned from people who should know far better—like
professors and administrators at Ivy League law schools, for a
start. 

For more recent campus-of-delicate-flowers inanity,
see: 

• Vandalized: Residence of U-M Student Who Dared to
  Mock Trigger Warnings
• As Student Activism Grows, So Does Campus
  Resistance to Free Speech
• University of Iowa Pulls Anti-Racism Display for
  Being ‘Deeply Offensive’; Head of Journalism School Cheers
• Profs Have Stopped Teaching Rape Law Now That
  Everything ‘Triggers’ Students

h/t Caleb Brown