Ben, the very few more recent UofA students I have known were pretty much on the ball and focused on their courses of study - sensed no shrinking violets or snowflakes - and I haven't seen university students in general as the root of this nonsense.
Of course there will some pansies and nitwits among any student cohort. The genesis of this concocted baloney has to come from the social science faculty, certain voices for "specialty programs" (like wimmin's studies, ethnic studies, gender mix-up studies, etc.) and maybe some faculty in the arts - aided and abetted by any number of administrative types blindly playing the popular culture tune.
What a waste.
