Amid a sea of “microaggressions” and “trigger warnings” that are teaching college students to run from any word or thought that might be the least bit unsettling, one school is trying to stem the tide by condemning the practice.

American University’s faculty senate passed a resolution in early September that declared an adherence to free speech and diversity of ideas, suggesting trigger warnings subverted critical thought. “Trigger warnings,” if you’re lucky enough not to have heard of them, are bits of text posted on classroom syllabi informing students that the material they are about to read might present an opposing view point or remind them of something bad that happened to them at some point in their lives.