During the 1960s and 1970s, people confronted their words and each other. This raised some awareness in schools due to the offensive nature of the issue. During the 1980s schools began to focus on preventing this type of speech on their campuses. Since then, students have become increasingly sensitive in a negative sense. The authors used the example of a child shouting “Shut up, water buffalo” at an Israeli-born student. That incident made national news, only for him to call another boy a “water buffalo.” Another example is when a university found a student guilty of racial harassment for reading a book honoring student opposition to the Ku Klux clan. The image on the book cover offended one of the student's co-workers. Just because the student was reading a book, minding his own business, the student was punished by the university. He never said anything or physically hurt anyone, and his education was ruined by someone who was offended by a book he was reading. The authors used this extreme example to demonstrate that accepting the fact that students are fragile and letting them be fragile is not the right way to go and the past can prove it.