Amid the increasingly surreal scramble for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, one of the most bizarre promises of the primary season appears to have gone relatively unnoticed. During the dispiriting slog he endured before finally winning his home state's primary, Ohio Governor John Kasich announced that if elected president, he would reunite the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
Shaheen Pasha is a journalism professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She also happens to be a female, Pakistani-American Muslim who is adamantly opposed to the notion of "safe spaces" for under-represented students on college campuses.
Writing on Medium.com in November, Pasha, 38, argued that college is not a safe space, and was never meant to be. "It is a place where debates can turn heated and ugly and the cruel realities of the world come crashing down on students, preparing them for the very real discourse they will face upon graduation."
