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Students asked to predict ‘emotional risk’ of campus events they seek to host

Students who want to host an event at the University of Florida are now asked to predict the “emotional risk” of their function in their application to administrators.

Screenshots of the query obtained by Young America’s Foundation show that the question is posed when students apply for a campus event permit.

“The students are prompted to ‘select all possibilities of Emotional Risk that may apply’ with the following options: Sensitive Subject Matter; Reaction of Participants; and Potential Controversy,” reports the foundation, adding the answer is used by the office of Student Activities and Involvement to determine the level of staffing needed at each event.

The conservative foundation adds the probing is an insult to college students seeking to prepare themselves for the real world.

“The infantilization of students, grown adults, by institutions of so-called ‘higher learning’ is a phenomenon doing significant harm to students,” opines YAF’s Spencer Brown.

Washington Examiner columnist Emily Jashinsky suggests students at the public university should “skip over” the question, noting “it’s easy to imagine this process is designed to justify greater university control over lectures and events with the potential to irritate progressive campus activists.”

“It’s also easy to imagine the requested assessment of ‘emotional risk’ comes in response to the concerns of a generation of college students who claim to be impacted psychologically by ideas with which they disagree and believe they should be sheltered from them,” she added.

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