My communications professor at Texas State University taught his students a very valuable lesson this semester: “It costs nothing to shut the hell up and listen.” A class discussion about the word “woke” turned into an uncomfortable portrayal of how easily classroom dialogue can turn into an echo chamber of mob mentality. I was in […]
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Love seems to be over for college students. That’s at least what I gathered from a recent conversation with a student in Texas. I’ll leave him unnamed—and because he wants total anonymity, I won’t even tell you what school he goes to. But I will tell you he’s not scoring dates. And it’s not for […]
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5/20: Admiral William H. McRaven at the University of Texas, Austin
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