{"id":1548,"date":"2016-11-16T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2016-11-16T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:44:27","slug":"crayons-coloring-chocolate-and-cuddles-for-ivy-leaguers-traumatized-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/11\/crayons-coloring-chocolate-and-cuddles-for-ivy-leaguers-traumatized-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Crayons, coloring, chocolate, and cuddles for Ivy Leaguers traumatized by election"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/621888696\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/621888696?et=E7Ss1daPQdBanHlx1ZHKvw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=PthmttXrnF5DWoKWt5zTuZG0jP-6pjnm-SCgctWtRk0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students at the University of Pennsylvania organized an event they called \u201cBreathing Space\u201d to help each other recover from the trauma of the election of Donald Trump. Similar events have taken place at colleges all across America but this one at an Ivy League school, no less, takes the cake.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A faculty director hosted the event and cleared the space of any television screens. Students were invited to be distracted from the news with coloring, crafts, snacks, and a small petting zoo. Daniel Tancredi spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/29898\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The College Fix<\/a> and gave them a glimpse from inside the event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere were actual cats and a puppy there. There were sheets of paper available with black and white printed designs on them for students to color in. Essentially they looked like pages from a coloring book that were printed from a computer. They all had positive feel-good messages on them. Students colored them in with colored pencils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the most part, students just hung out and ate snacks and made small talk. Of course, that was in addition to coloring and playing with the animals. The election was mentioned a few times, though mostly in very timid and fearful tones. The event as a whole seemed to be an escape from the reality of the election results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that isn\u2019t pathetic enough, Tancredi said some Penn professors turned their classrooms into \u201csafe spaces\u201d and even canceled lessons and exams to further coddle the snowflakes. It\u2019s not all that surprising at a campus that voted 3612-375 in favor of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously the diversity at Penn is not diversity of opinion since the opinion of almost half the country is almost unaccounted for on campus,\u201d Tancredi said. \u201cI\u2019m also worried for my fellow students. If the result of an election takes this much of a toll on their well-being, what is going to happen when they directly face difficulties in the real world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tancredi then nails the root of the entire problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn my opinion, the reaction of Penn\u2019s students reveals that as a whole we have placed our faith and hope in the wrong things. Governments will fail us; they are not perfect. Perhaps we should reconsider our priorities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew! At least one student will emerge from college with his head on straight!<\/p>\n<p>But for the rest: here\u2019s to the Class of Two Thousand and Offended. May their futures as aromatherapists be less triggering than reading the Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, THAT\u2019s a recipe that guarantees a future full of failures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crayons, coloring, chocolate, and cuddles for Ivy Leaguers traumatized by election<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Now, THAT\u2019s a recipe that guarantees a future full of failures.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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