Who thinks up these requirements and how are they supposed to enrich your college education?

Dave Huber of the College Fix reports.

Columbia’s ‘sexual respect’ requirement ignites frustration, mockery

A month ago Columbia University revealed its “sexual respect” education program — a requirement designed “to reinforce that community citizenship is a critical part of being a Columbia student at any school, and that sexual respect is integral to what it means to be a member of this community.”

There are several ways for students to meet the requirement, even including submitting an art piece.

But it seems the program wasn’t put together very well, which is bad thing considering students were to have completed it by yesterday.

The Columbia Daily Spectator reports that “a number of issues have surfaced with the program’s implementation, from technical difficulties with signing up for workshops to student complaints about the content of some workshop options.”

For example, eight survivors of sexual assault had showed up for a workshop back on February 25, only no one from the university was there to run it.

Some other concerns are more of the PC variety: Some students of the “working group” that helped put together the program are upset that an option of watching a video and “reflecting” on it was added early this year:

“The content being discussed in these workshops and in these videos and these reflections is so specific and so complicated, and people will have so many misconceptions about that going in that students will benefit most from a workshop,” working group member Abby Porter, CC ’17, said.

In other words, “we’re upset because the video option doesn’t allow us to ‘re-educate’ students and to direct them to the ‘proper’ mode of thinking.”