University of Massachusetts-Amherst Honors Dorm Decorated with Care Bears to Soothe Stressed Out Students

Last updated on: December 18, 2017 at 3:43 pm by Mark Meckler

University of Massachusetts-Amherst Honors Dorm Decorated with Care Bears to Soothe Stressed Out Students 2017-12-18T15:43:18-06:00 Mark Meckler

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The evidence for mass Snowflake Syndrome at America’s colleges continues to build. Campus Reform has the latest:

A dorm display at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst is using Care Bears to help students who feel “grumpy or stressed.”

“Feeling grumpy or stressed? Let the Care Bears help!” the display states above a large, hand-drawn rainbow adorned with bit of advice for students.

When I was in college (before the dawn of time), someone posting this in a dorm would have been laughed out of town. As they should be. The Care Bear inspired advice to the Honors Students included:

“It’s important to take care of ourselves! Self-care is an active choice and you should treat it as such,” one section proclaims, while other suggest that students “surround yourselves with supportive people” and “reminders of what you love.”

The display also suggests goofing around with friends, making time for fun, eating healthy, and getting enough sleep.

Here’s what the bulletin board looks like. You could more easily imagine this in a pre-school than a collegiate honors dorm, right?

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Not everyone was pleased at this display.

According to Bradley Polumbo, a sophomore at UMass-Amherst, the display was posted in Birch Hall, the dorm for students in the Honors College.

“Frankly, I just think it’s ridiculous,” Polumbo told Campus Reform. “The people that live in this dorm are either 20 or 21 years old. We could be overseas fighting in wars right now, or working full time with kids at home to feed.”

And as much as this should terrify parents sending their kids to these schools, I do find the whole thing highly amusing. Many of the “kids” attending these colleges would be more suited to attend daycare at a local community center.

Hat Tip: Campus Reform

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