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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Morton Schapiro speaks at an event. On Tuesday, Schapiro told The Daily that the nature of the comments he made about critics of microaggressions and trigger warnings earlier this year was a mistake.

Schapiro walks back use of ‘idiots’ in convocation speech

October 11, 2016

University President Morton Schapiro said the nature of his comments criticizing opponents of trigger warnings and microaggressions during his convocation speech in September were a mistake. In the...

Letter to the Editor: A response to ‘Why classrooms should make students learn rather than merely feel safe’

October 2, 2016

I commend the honest discussion about the need to be both intellectually and emotionally challenged in college. Indeed, adversity affords the opportunity for growth and learning, both in and out of the...

Hammersmith: Why counseling at the Women’s Center is not dispensable

October 2, 2016

Amid all this debate around safe spaces on college campuses, I don’t think I ever really understood the issue until I found one of my very own. The Women’s Center sits on the corner of Sheridan Road...

Letter to the Editor: Why classrooms should make students learn rather than merely feel safe

September 29, 2016

Amid all the words, some inflammatory and others helpful, about safe spaces and trigger warnings, how am I, a teacher, supposed to think about my pedagogy? Our own President has opined on the matter as...

Editorial: Safe spaces are vital, and so is thoughtful rhetoric

September 28, 2016

The debate about safe spaces, microaggressions and so-called campus oversensitivity has been near constant over the past year. This month, it returned to our backyard. First, there was the University...

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