Colleges and universities have been falling more and more into the idea that they must cater to their students’ every need: recreational, living comfort, not having to take hard courses, avoiding hurtful speech, and so on. And now it has come to this: at Columbia Law School, students can delay taking their final exams if they’ve been too traumatized by the fact that grand juries did not indict the police officers in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. The law school’s dean, in addition to having a trauma specialist available for students, has decreed that students who feel that they won’t do well on their exams under the circumstances will be allowed to petition to take them later, provided they’re “sufficiently impaired.” Powerline has the story.

Good grief. We’re talking about adults in a professional school. They’re all mature enough to know that life is full of bad, upsetting things. But school officials don’t dare say that.