Defending the Ground of the Cap and Gown
Professors Are Targets In Online Culture Wars; Some Fight Back (wlrn.org) [This blog includes discussion of bullying and a suicide attempt.] Of all my interactions with the worst bully I ever had to deal with in my younger days — and believe me, I had to deal with a lot of bullies back then — two stick out the most. The first was an act of public embarrassment so mortifying that it led me to attempt suicide, right there on campus, after I was finally able to…