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“Yes, they have been challenging me and they should be challenging me,” she said. Those politically engaged Scripps students have challenged Tiedens as well. Last spring, shortly after Tiedens’ appointment as college president, selecting former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to deliver the 2016 commencement address led to campus protests by students who believed her partially liable for the Rwandan genocide. The Claremont Colleges are also incredibly politically active, with students challenging the political status quo, campus officials and even world leaders.

“Being here is exactly the right place to be.” “This is a time in history when women’s education is critically important,” Tiedens said. By exploring how Reddit was used in the aftermath of the Aurora shootings of July 2012 and the Boston bombings of April 2013, this thesis argues that Reddit has the potential to be a powerful and useful tool in times. Not only is the Scripps’ student body all-female, so are the majority of faculty and staff, which works to roll back the socialization that sees men - now a minority on most college campuses - dominating classroom discussion, a phenomenon that continues in the workplace. This thesis examines the ways in which Reddit, a social news aggregator, functions as a tool that allows users to give and receive support and information during times of crisis. In part, that’s due to not just what Scripps students study, but who they are.

… And they feel entitled to speak their mind about it.” The students have “this ability to engage in whatever material comes their way. “They always tell me the Scripps students are their favorites,” she said. Naturally, the conservative blogosphere has erupted in outrage following Scripps's decision: a Christian Post opinion piece calls the decision "shameful," while a National Review writer accuses the college of "ensuring that its campus will remain a parochial and intellectually cramped sort of place."Ĭorrection: The Claremont Independent is a newspaper for all five colleges in the Claremont Colleges consortium-not just Scripps.Instead, at Scripps, “we try and give them the time and the space and the input to be deeper thinkers.”Įducators at the other Claremont Colleges notice when Scripps students are in their classes, according to Tiedens. "Academia is learning that its attempts to create victim-free campuses-by making everyone hypersensitive, even delusional, about victimizations-brings increasing supervision by the regulatory state that progressivism celebrates," Will concluded. The column in question, titled "Colleges become the victim of progressivism," set off a barrage of tweets and blog posts after Will questioned a Swarthmore student's rape report and accused sexual assault survivors of enjoying "a coveted status" on college campuses. Will authored a column questioning the validity of a specific sexual assault case that reflects similar experiences reported by Scripps students, we decided not to finalize the speaker agreement." And it is too important to be trivialized in a political debate or wrapped into a celebrity controversy," Bettison-Varga wrote. "Sexual assault is not a conservative or liberal issue. Scripps President Lori Bettison-Varga elaborated on the decision in a letter to the college's community. "They didn't say that the column was the reason, but it was the reason." "It was in the works and then it wasn't in the works," Will told a Claremont Colleges student newspaper, The Claremont Independent. The right-leaning author (who-full disclosure-previously worked for Newsweek, though not in the past several years) had been invited to the Claremont, California, women's college as part of its Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program, which has previously hosted Newt Gingrich and political consultant Mary Matalin.

Will has been uninvited from a speaking engagement at Scripps College in light of a June column shrugging off "the supposed campus epidemic of rape."