Now UConn is infantilizing its students

At the University of Connecticut, two students recently shouted racial and ethnic epithets. They did not direct them at any specific individuals, and nothing in what has been reported about the incident indicates that the students intended physical harm to anyone.

Nevertheless, students at the university claimed that one of the uttered epithets — an especially ugly one derogatory to African-Americans — had caused them to feel “unsafe” at the university. Believing themselves physically threatened, along with members of the faculty, they demanded formal punishment of the two students.