This writer and I are in complete agreement about the coddling of our students at the cost of academic freedom and free speech.

Most readers will be aware of campaigns to dampen hateful speech, to stop "microaggressions," and to get professors to supply students with "trigger warnings" — verbal trailers or coming attractions — when anticipating visual and verbal disturbances. It’s as if we need the equivalent of G, PG, PG-13, R, and X ratings for both texts and talk. Those who want mandatory warnings believe they are straightforward remedies for a straightforward problem: Vulnerable people need to be protected from upset. If the demand for comfort collides with the need for truth, or with the needs of an atmosphere of intellectual give and take, the truth must be more prettily wrapped. At my own university, advocates of trigger warnings counted "roughly 80 instances of assault" in Ovid’sMetamorphoses alone. Though Metamorphoses is neither a Sadean revelry nor a snuff movie, some students find it deplorable that they’re required to read the book without a prior alert.
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Plague-of-Hypersensitivity/229963/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

This is a point that I have been making for years:

http://terrortrials.blogspot.com/2013/12/this-guy-believes-millennials-can-solve.html