YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS UP – AT 9:44 A.M. ET:  A story out of Emory University, which began with the antics of a few immature kids, is building, as the immaturity is growing.  From Daily Caller: 

Emory University’s student government has announced that it is deploying “emergency” student funds in response to an outbreak of pro-Donald Trump chalk around campus, which many students claimed was “triggering” and damaging to their psychological wellbeing.

The announcement came one day after several dozen student protesters demonstrated outside Emory’s administration building, asking why the school had responded quickly after swastikas were drawn on a Jewish house but hadn’t reacted similarly to support for Trump. They called on James Wagner, the university’s president, to have the school officially denounce Trump and his on-campus supporters. Wagner declined to do so, but did send out a campus-wide email pledging to improve social justice work on campus.

Now, the student government is getting in on the action, pledging to provide much-needed assistance to students offended by the chalk markings, which included phrases such as “Build the wall” and “Accept the inevitable: Trump 2016.”

The Student Government, presumably our future leaders, sent a heartfelt message:

“[B]y nature of the fact that for a significant portion of our student population, the messages represent particularly bigoted opinions, policies, and rhetoric directed at populations represented at Emory University, we would like to express our concern regarding the values espoused by the messages displayed, and our sympathy for the pain experienced by members of our community,” the message said.

It then went on to suggest the chalk marks had imperiled by the basic safety of Emory students.

COMMENT:   There is no area where free speech is more imperiled than in our colleges and universities.  They have become sandboxes, and free speech has become the enemy, an enemy that damages the emotional health of people who will probably be parents within the next ten years.  Ah, what thoughtful parents they will be, no doubt. 

I recall when the voting age was lowered to 18, the idea being that if you were old enough to fight, you were old enough to vote.  Now we might consider raising the voting age to 35.  Children should not be voting.  For faculty members I'd make that 45. 

March 24, 2016