WASHINGTON, D.C. – American University’s Student Government wants officials to require professors to issue “trigger warnings” for any potential offensive material in all course syllabi, despite strong objections from faculty members.

The demand to protect students’ sensibilities was issued by AUSG President Devontae Torriente in a YouTube video published last month titled “#LetUsLearn: Centering Student Trauma in Academic Spaces.”

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“Last September, the faculty senate unanimously approved a resolution opposing the mandatory use of trigger warnings on syllabi,” Torriente said, adding that the faculty senate sent out a memo in September reminding students about the “academic freedom” resolution.

“As it currently stands, there is a difference in understanding between our students and our faculty about the necessity of trigger warnings on syllabi and the importance of centering student trauma in academic spaces,” he continued. “The fact of the matter is, trigger warnings are necessary to make our academic spaces accessible to all students, especially those who have experienced trauma.”

Torriente argues that students who have experienced trauma – “such as interpersonal violence, or experienced post-traumatic stress disorder” – are excluded from the classroom, “negatively impacting their mental health and education.”

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The AUSG president said he’s attempting to work with the faculty senate to “begin to bridge” the differences of opinion on trigger warnings, but made it clear that students’ feelings are far more important to the AUSG than First Amendment or academic freedoms.

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“This conversation should be about student trauma. This conversation should be about students. This conversation should be about us,” he said.

The faculty senate resolution approved last fall states “American University is committed to protecting and championing the right to freely communicate ideas – without censorship – and to study material as it is written, produced, or stated, even materials that some members of our community may find disturbing or that provokes uncomfortable feelings.

“This freedom is an integral part of the learning experience and an obligation from which we cannot shrink,” it read.

“As laws and individual sensitivities may seek to restrict, label, warn or exclude specific contend, the academy must stand firm as a place that is open to diverse ideas and free expression. These are standards and principles that American University will not compromise.”

According to the American University website, annual tuition for a full academic year is $46,980.

Life lessons about “centering student trauma in academic space:” priceless.

“If you can’t read a syllabus without bursting into tears, you don’t belong in college,” SteppyJ412 posted to Mediaite.

“Are these stupid kids going to ‘demand’ safe spaces and trigger warnings when they interview for a job?” commenter MamaMacaroni questioned. “I feel sorry for the little snowflakes. Whatever will they do in the real world?”