Tune them out.

No alone time with either sex.

Pay attention to your masters.

Welcome to our world.

I have a hard time feeling bad of professors caught up in these witch hunts.

To paraphrase Margret Thatcher
'The problem with witch hunts is sooner or later you run out of other groups to demonize'

Most liberal professors had no problem when their conservative colleagues were being metaphorically lynched, a number even supported it.

Well the inquisition has run out of official heretics and needs must manufacture new ones to justify its continued existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6CVvNRQcvE

When parent paid colleges to educate their children, pleasing the children came second to educating them. Sometimes education comes with hard lessons. Parents understood that.

When students started paying the bills, they became the customer. And students were buying a degree, not an education. They didn't want to struggle to learn those hard lessons.

Recruits don't pay a drill instructor. Students don't want to pay to have their minds expanded. That hurts and no one but a masochist pays for pain.

Colleges are caught in a conundrum. The ones paying the bills are the ones being sent through the system to be taught first how much they don't know and then taught what they need to know. People paying the bills want a comfortable ride, not a revelation of their own ignorance. The conundrum is that colleges must please the bill payers to keep the money coming, but also provide the education that is the raison d'être of the university.

Add in professors more interested in disseminating their own worldviews than in educating students and you've got a dysfunctional system.

video with audio for every interaction, group or single. Hard to do a "he said she/it said" when you can say "Lets go to the tape".

But, yeah, colleges have pretty much done this to themselves.

No sympathy from me. Gutless, PC college professors and administrators are responsible for the current attitudes on campus. Live by "social justice", die by social justice.

I think Conan hit it pretty squarely. Now that college costs a ludicrous amount of money, and students are amassing unprecedented debt, the students really have become consumers. They aren't going to sign up for years of financial burden just to be told they're not Special Just the Way They Are.

Not that I'm terribly sympathetic, mind you. As Mer points out, the colleges have pretty much done this to themselves, with a lot of help from the federal government. But I don't expect much of that to change until students start realizing that college degrees aren't always worth the debt or effort, and quit signing up to go.

Suppressing ideas you don't like: this suffers from the mistaken idea that a college student will never change their mind. In fact many current conservatives were once radical leftists. For students stuck in the perpetual "now", they can't even imagine this.
Giving in to every complaint is to pretend that there are no mistakes made, and no crazy people out there. At the airport, a young guy in front of me in line at the customer service counter missed his flight because he stood at the wrong gate. He wanted a hotel night. They wouldn't give it to him. Good for them.
There is a whole TV show called crazy Ex's. Crazy ex girlfriends/boyfriends fill pages of stories on blogs. But this is all ignored.
When you add ignorance to this, you get a prof censured for using the word "niggardly". simply nuts

Conan is right. Another manifestation of this is grade inflation. Must have "happy" customers.

"The New Attitude On Campus: Don't Offend The Customers, Uh, Students"

I don't believe it. There is only one class of customers the universities don't want to offend. If you aren't one of those favored groups they have no issue kicking you to the curb or stomping all over you.

From my regular columnist:

http://www.rgj.com/story/insider/2016/06/13/living-children-happiness-decision/85837534/

Excerpts:

"...(Dennis Prager) was talking to an audience about how to be a happy person and have a happy marriage. His message, in a nutshell, was that no one makes you happy. You make yourself happy and if you don’t accept full responsibility for that, you’re going to be miserable a lot.

"Nearly everything Prager said was relevant to proper parenting. For example, as I have said for years, the attempt by parents to make a child happy robs the child of the fundamental right to learn to pursue happiness on his or her own. Once upon a time, it was called, simply, 'standing on your own two feet.'

"Almost invariably, people who don’t understand that happiness is a decision, the act of taking full responsibility for one’s own emotional condition, end up characterizing themselves as victims of social, cultural, financial, familial, and biological forces beyond their control. They tend to view life as a drama, a soap opera in which they are casualties (or always on the edge of casualty). In that regard, it is relevant to note that many of today’s youth seem to embrace that worldview. (Can you say 'microaggressions'?) It is also relevant to note that most parents, when I ask them what their parenting goals are, say, 'I want my child to be happy' as either goal one or goal two, which is proof that good intentions do not proper parenting make.

"Prager also talked about feelings, which have been a mainstay of our cultural conversation since psychology became our dominant philosophy in the 1960s. He had the strength of conviction to say that when all is said and done, it does not matter how someone feels; what matters is how that individual treats other people.

"That’s a bingo, and dovetails with what I tell parents as often as the opportunity presents itself: Proper parenting is an act of love for one’s neighbor. It is the act of training a child such that the child will treat other people properly and make America a better place. Phooey on an accumulation of athletic trophies, high self-esteem, academic accolades, getting accepted by the 'right' college, going to medical school, becoming a mover-and-shaker within the Beltway and other equally materialistic parenting purposes. In the final analysis, the only thing that matters is that a child grows up to be a good citizen, which is comprised of one-third self-responsibility, one-third compassion, and one-third the willingness to serve others..."

(snip)

Some people are there for the education, but not most. Many are there for the degree, the new aptitude test that proves you can do the job.

I'm old enough to have actually taken aptitude tests. I can tell you from experience that they are faster and cheaper than four years of college. I can also tell you from experience that neither is a foolproof indication of competence. I can also tell you that one is far cheaper than the other. Thank you, Supreme Court, for getting equality before the law wrong.

Caveat emptor, as always.

Remove all funding from student organizations, at least those that are ethnic/racial based. No black groups, no gay groups, no Hispanic groups, no women's groups.

If students want to organize, they can use their own spaces and their own money. They want to bring in speakers? Fine, but not on campus.

This passage bugs me:

I hate that this is happening, but these professors have student loans to pay off, mortgages to pay, and sometimes, kids to feed, and -- much as I wish professors would band together and fight this -- I understand the need to keep one's job.

Even where tenure is not a factor, the mentality of academe as realm of career tranquility is nothing we need admire. As taxpayers, it's our money... For public schools themselves, and as grants and taxation exceptions for most all of these torpid little enterprises. For much of the past century they've been blindly excused from economic reality because we trusted them.

One need not admire the drooling, illiterate students who are bringing all these oblivious players back down to Earth. Their disruptions were to be expected and may well summon be the strongest and fastest disinfectants to the cause of learning.

I have energy about this.

One of the things that drove me away from academia was academics.

I'd rather deal with a self-righteous mob of egotistical tech bros than deal with those wet sponge mops on a daily basis.

Wait, I do that. I win!

@mer: 'Hard to do a "he said she/it said" when you can say "Lets go to the tape".'

That only works if you can show the tape. The college SJW's and Obama's Title 9 misenforcers have it figured out - they won't let the defendant present a defense. Any time I hear about one of these college inquisitions, my only question is whether they invented the process on their own or consulted a medieval witch hunter manual.