Campus News

Language police hang up cuffs at Queen’s University in Canada

Officials have discontinued a program at Kingston, Ontario’s Queen’s University in which six students employed by the school were asked to eavesdrop on campus conversations and intervene if the language was found to be objectionable, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

The students, called “dialogue facilitators” were asked to intervene in private conversations if the talk contained offensive language or showed disrespect to homosexual, ­religious or minority groups.