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Cambridge University slammed over Shakespeare ‘trigger warnings’
Fox News | 10/19/2017Cambridge University is being slammed by several academics after it was revealed students were given “trigger warnings” about an upcoming lecture on Shakespeare, amid concerns from faculty the students could become distressed.
Undergraduates were advised in a “Notes on Lectures” document circulated to students that a potentially triggering lecture on Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” and “The Comedy of Errors” would include “discussions of sexual violence” and “sexual assault,” The Telegraph reported Wednesday.
“If a student of English Literature doesn’t know that ‘Titus Andronicus’ contains scenes of violence they shouldn’t be on the course,” David Crilly, artistic director at The Cambridge Shakespeare Festival, told the newspaper.
Mad Magazine and Cliff Notes
My mind hasn’t been right ever since I read ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
Maxine Waters: “Isn’t that book about Trump?!……IMPEACH”!
Now you expect us to read as well? This New Year isn’t turning out to be what I hoped it would be… so, I submit the cinema classic Them – I’ve been antsy ever since…
Brave New World – the closing image haunts me…
The Cat in the Hat. I can barely speak about it these days.
My algebra book. My counselor told me there would be no math.
“1984”, frightening to think it could ever come to pass and, oh wait a minute . . .
1) Helter Skelter. The forward said it would scare the hell out of me. I was in 6th grade.
It did.
2) Thoureau’s “Walden”. He got away with us high school kids thinking he was some kind of deep genius for living in his little Unabomber shack when he was right down the path from his mom’s house where he could get three squares a day anytime he got hungry. Woulda turned us into a buncha commies if we weren’t careful.
Where the Red Fern Grows: I haven’t run with an axe ever since.