http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-year-of-the-imaginary-college-student
I saw this article and found it interersting. Here’s a snippet from it:
"Another effect of the Ferguson protests—and the Occupy movement before it—was to intensify the desire to see injustices in one’s immediate surroundings as part of larger struggles that once might have seemed distant and abstract, to draw connections and recognize broader patterns linking everyday indignities with systemic problems.
This desire to see oneself along a continuum of experience isn’t remarkable in itself. What’s changed is the intense scrutiny from those just beyond the gates, eager to diagnose every gesture as some kind of larger trend. It’s a strange game of gotcha, from progressives wary of political correctness seeking out the juiciest anecdotes to O’Keefe’s mission to find someone at Vassar willing to do something un-American. The recent media coverage of Oberlin’s food fight, for example, seemed remarkably out of proportion to the original complaints. Before social media, grievances about cafeteria food from members of the campus’ tiny sliver of Asian and Asian-American students would have been lucky to make it across campus, let alone the country. But thanks in part to their use of au courant buzzwords like ‘authenticity’ and “appropriation,” the “Oberlin foodies” became national symbols of campus culture wars run amok."
And here’s another article that was linked within the first article and is a bit more statistics-based:
http://ncac.org/resource/ncac-report-whats-all-this-about-trigger-warnings/
ETA: I’m realizing this is probably in the wrong place, mods please move to wherever it actually should be, I couldn’t find the appropriate section before posting.