USA Today 4/6/12: “This branch of the University of California's student government unanimously passed a resolution in support of trigger warnings on syllabi earlier this year. Although the resolution still doesn't require [the warnings] to be placed on syllabi, [the resolution] shows that the student body supports professors using these warnings on material that could be upsetting." -- USA Today, April 6, 2014
Well, okay. Here's my revised syllabus for my fall, 2014, section of "Tragic Drama," now retitled:
SCARY OLD PLAYS
The following warnings are in place for students who have not played a video game, seen the evening news or an action movie, or read a work of fiction at any point before this, their freshman year of college.
Week 1. Euripides, Medea. Students are warned that
the text and clips of televised
