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OP here. [b]Who cares which paper it's in?[/b] It's not a matter of worrying; it's the fact that so many busybodies thrive on telling others how to live and careers and reputations can be ruined over perceived slights. And the fact that there are countless well paid college administrators being paid to micromanage and police what consenting adults do outside the classroom on their own time. Is this kind of coddling *really* preparing students for the real world? There's a fine line between colleges teaching youth how to be good citizens and the crap we have here where people are all but told what to think.

We're heading down a slippery slope as far as free speech and the nature of "tolerance" in America and the West. Who would have imagined 20-30 years ago that people could make a career out of being offended for other people and printing out leaflets about "appropriate" attire at off campus house parties?

Just some food for thought next time you write Larla's tuition check or bitch about the ballooning coast of education....cause of useless staff like these people at Wesleyan and SUNY.[/quote]

Evidently plenty of people care about which paper it's in. And with reason, given that [b]some papers have a reasonably good (though not perfect) reputation for reporting facts that are accurate, while other papers don't.[/b]

Is that you, Judith Miller?  :-)

As for people supposedly making a career out of being offended -- people make very good livings off all kinds of things I find ludicrous. Advising companies about how to get federal contracts, for example. Trying to improve the reputations of companies that jack up the prices of generic medications because they can. Life coaching and potty training consulting. I'm not going to get upset about one more ludicrous way to pay the bills.[/quote][/quote]

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