Willful Ignorance On Campus
By now you’ve probably seen the video of a student screaming at Nicholas Christakis — the master of Silliman College at Yale — over his refusal to apologize for an email written by his wife, Erika Christakis, which some found insensitive for its suggestion that students "look away" if someone wore a Halloween costume that offended them. Another incident occurred in mid-October at Williams College, where Suzanne Venker, a conservative critic of feminism, was disinvited from giving an on-campus lecture because the students who ran the speaker series — called "Uncomfortable Learning" — had encountered so much negative reaction in anticipation of her speech.