Columbia students demand trigger warnings for King Lear

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Professors at other schools have added cautionary notes to their syllabi, but Columbia students have called for more say in the book-selection process, and for trigger warnings as campus policy

By Mike Vilensky

July 1, 2015 1:40 p.m. ET

A growing group of Columbia University undergraduates are calling for an overhaul to the school’s required reading list and asking whether classics with sexually violent content should bear cautionary notes.


The effort to add “trigger warnings” to texts has polarized universities around the U.S. At the New York City Ivy League school, it is focused on an introductory humanities course, “Masterpieces of Western Literature and...




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They're going to love Metamorphoses.