The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/pussy-riot/)
“I’m not something unique or special. Everybody has a story and everybody in different situations has to make a choice: to act or to stay aside,” Alyokhina said. “Don’t stay aside otherwise your history will be written by someone else.”
A lot of discussion has taken place recently about the merits of “trigger warnings” in academic environments. We can see that students, professors and administrators are all now part of an important conversation which deals with trauma and its role in the classroom. Some are fans of trigger warnings. Others, like President Elizabeth Garrett (to reporters at the Cornell Club), say that “there shouldn’t be any limits on the substance of freedom of speech at a university.”
And on a tangential note, any casual observer of the Cornellian social media scene will also see that a related division of opinions has happened on the oh-so-exciting “Overheard” group. The typical incident usually goes like this: A makes a joke in poor taste.