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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a silly marketing ploy at the expense of actually welcoming students--ooh look at us heroically pushing back against forces of illiberality. I saw one college president say that instead of coddling students they are just coddling donors. [/quote]

It may be a “silly marketing ploy,” but as a parent who funded the college education of two kids, I appreciate it.  
Good for them.
There are not enough colleges that get in the news for the right reasons.  [/quote]

+1.

I believe it was both smart and brave.[/quote]I agree yet most posters' kids will not be getting into the University of Chicago.  But admiring from a distance is free.[/quote] My kid has a very good shot of getting in and this pushed the U of C to the top of his list.  He had already crossed off most of the Ivy's because what he views as a shutting down of free exchange of ideas and open discussion on campus--and this is not a right-wing kid.  As said something to the effect of, "College is not only supposed to prepare us academically to enter the workforce.  It is a time to prepare students socially and emotionally to enter the world beyond academia. We won't be prepared if we cannot learn to work with those with whom we do not agree, have the ability to discuss and freely have open exchange of ideas, and to freely change ideas and thoughts from a multitude of perspectives.  Shutting down discussion, cancelling speakers, and refusing to live with or near someone because we do not share the same politics, gender, race etc., will not serve the individual or the general populace well in the long run."  We need more universities stepping up to the plate and performing the role of educating students and not hindering their development.[/quote]There are millions of people who won't live next door to cross burners simply to appease those for the sake of an open exchange of ideas.  Not everyone wants to work with someone whose purpose is to demoralize and denigrate.

When I hear it on television, I change channels or turn it off.  I have the right not to engage in certain types of free speech.[/quote]

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