You get used to the vehemence. In academe, anything that’s published about our own special place gets somebody going. Even so, the vituperation among the professoriate generated by the journalist Nathan Heller’s May 2016 New Yorker article, "The Big Uneasy," took me aback. A case study of student discontent at Oberlin College, the essay is by no means the first to raise academic hackles about students. Before Heller, the Northwestern University professor and feminist Laura Kipnis stirred an outcry in these pages with her charges of "sexual paranoia" among women students on campus. Todd Gitlin, a former president of Students for a Democratic Society and now a professor at Columbia University, decried a "plague of hypersensitivity" among students fearful of words that wound. There have been many more outcries in a similar vein.

October 16, 2016 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education