Puppy pity parties at University of Pennsylvania, a “cry-in” at Cornell and now UT gets its very own Trump Wailing Wall. All of this childishness on university campuses would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.
Via The College Fix:
When University of Texas-Austin students wanted to protest the state’s new campus-carry law, they marched with dildos to question lawmakers’ priorities.
But they had a more sober response to the election of Republican Donald Trump, which has provoked existential fear on campus.
The student government created a “Therapy Wall” in the Student Activity Center Wednesday for students to properly express themselves in a therapeutic manner.
Many of those expressions posted on the wall when The College Fix visited it Thursday consisted of profanity. A spokesperson for the administration said it is “not taking any of them down.”
The Therapy Wall follows other post-election therapeutic services offered by elite universities and faculty: a “Cry In” at Cornell, puppies and coloring books at the University of Pennsylvania and exams that were postponed or made optional so students could talk through their anxieties.
Yet in a Monday message to the UT community, President Greg Fenves did not refer to the planned wall as intended for “therapy.”
He simply said that Vice President for Student Affairs Soncia Reagins-Lilly was working with student leaders and faculty to set up “a wall” where anyone “can share their emotions by posting notes.” Reagins-Lilly herself referred to it as a “Therapy Wall,” though.