(Washington Post) David Bernstein - An article from the Brown Daily Herald discusses how Brown students' emotional and academic well-being is suffering because they are so busy fulfilling their "social justice responsibilities" as student activists. One incident that took an emotional toll on activists was protesting an appearance on campus by Natan Sharansky, a former dissident and survivor of years of confinement, including solitary confinement, in harsh Soviet prison camps. Is there a better indication of the decline of American higher-ed culture than a bunch of Ivy Leaguers at risk of emotional breakdown due to the presence of one of the great, stoic heroes of the Cold War on their campus? (Sharansky took questions, including hostile ones, from the audience, and even tried to have a conversation with the protesters, who responded by shouting slogans at him.)
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