………..many of today’s college students evidently.  On campuses from Missouri to California to New Haven, Connecticut (Yale), students are loudly calling for “safe zones” and speech codes where words and ideas deemed offensive to anyone are barred.  We don’t want little Sally or Timmy to be offended now, do we ?   I wonder if their eventual employers will be as willing to provide such safe zones.  A husband/wife professorial team from Yale recently resigned from teaching at the school, saying , “We have great respect and affection for our students, but we worry that the current climate at Yale is not, in our view, conducive to the civil dialogue and open inquiry required to solve our urgent societal problems. ”  No kidding !

I yearn for the good old days of student-led demonstrations against an unpopular and terribly costly (in lives) war in Southeast Asia.  Sifting through the clouds of marijuana smoke, at least onlookers knew that the students had every right to express their opinions.  So, let’s summarize – a particularly vocal group of college students today is actually arguing against free speech so that their feelings  are not hurt.   Gee, I wish I was a twentysomething competing against this gang today  for jobs !                            WHAT THE HECK !