Traditionally, universities have excelled at rattling young people’s “mental safety”? That was, surely, the whole point of them: to shake up their minds, challenge their beliefs, educate, poke and provoke them into viewing the world anew. The new paternalistic focus on keeping students “safe” changes the whole nature of campus life. It turns the academe from a challenging sphere of ideas and debate into a kind of kindergarten for grown-ups.