Pity party …

… My Students Need Trigger Warnings—and Professors Do, Too | The New Republic.

The beginning of the controversy raised in the Columbia student newspaper—a call by four students for faculty to provide trigger warnings and to be more sensitive about potentially traumatizing or triggering course material—was that a student survivor of sexual assault was triggered by a class discussion about Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” and that upon approaching her professor after class her concerns were “dismissed” and “ignored.” Further, the professor’s lecture on myths that include “vivid descriptions of rape and sexual assault” focused on “the beauty of the language and the splendor of the imagery.

The therapeutic needs of one student  should not determine the nature of the class or the procedure therein. Perhaps said student shouldn't be taking a class in Ovid.