I watched Marathon Man recently — the movie where Dustin Hoffman is a college student and gets interrogated by a fugitive Nazi dentist who repeatedly asks him “Is it safe?” This got me thinking about colleges and safe spaces. Safe spaces are a somewhat new development. If a college student feels challenged by an idea
Monthly Archives: May 2018
I’ve heard this one come up a couple of different ways: 1. My boyfriend/girlfriend and I are going to get married. It’s cheaper for us to live together until then. We’re not sleeping together, though! 2. Sometimes folks have roommates of the opposite sex in college. They are not in any sort of relationship with
As college gets further and further in the review mirror, I look back and think about what I regret the most. I find that I don’t regret any of the challenges and the stuff that made me unhappy or stressed. I don’t even particularly regret stupid choices, like running through snow in my bare feet.
When I see colleges in the news these days, it seems that they are usually in the news for protests. Some controversial speaker is scheduled to speak at campus, and students come out and protest the appearance away. Usually the speaker in these stories is someone who is considered a conservative. Their views are labeled
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