“It’s one thing to teach college students to talk frankly about sex and not to have it without demonstrable pre-coital assent”
It’s one thing to teach college students to talk frankly about sex and not...
Category Archives: University
“Think of the safe space as the live-action version of the better-known trigger warning…”
Safe spaces are an expression of the conviction, increasingly prevalent among college students, that...
“…while keeping college-level discussions “safe” may feel good to the hypersensitive, it’s bad for them and for everyone else”
…while keeping college-level discussions “safe” may feel good to the hypersensitive, it’s bad for...
“A confident and informed Jewish community can make a successful case for Israel without curtailing free speech and open debate”
It was not so long ago that Jewish communal organizations were among the strongest...
“…out on the quads, some students witness the heated debates and protests over the situation between Israel and its neighbors”
…out on the quads, some students witness the heated debates and protests over the...
A problem with sex on-campuses is “how to define consent”
Not long ago, nonmarital sex on college campuses was flatly suppressed. Sex could be...
“Consider the illogical message many schools are sending their students about drinking and having sex: that intercourse with someone “under the influence” of alcohol is always rape…”
Consider the illogical message many schools are sending their students about drinking and having...
“…there is a strategic error already starting to emerge in the Jewish community’s predictable response to these concerns…”
School is back in session, and amidst all the excitement of new beginnings there...
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld on why it’s important for committed Jewish students to be connected on-campus
Peter Berger’s book The Heretical Imperative explains that traditional beliefs collapse not in the...
“As debunkers, they contribute to a cultural climate that has little tolerance for finding or making meaning…”
In campus cultures where being smart means being a critical unmasker, students may become...