Campus Reform, a politically conservative website devoted to higher education, has ignited a firestorm of controversy with its recent claim that chair desks for left-handed students are significantly over-represented in college classrooms around the country. According to Sterling Beard, Campus Reform’s editor, left-handers constitute only about 10% of the student population, but nearly 17% of all college chair desks are designed for this subgroup. “What we have here is discrimination, pure and simple,” Beard asserts. “Many right-handed students are being not-so-subtly encouraged to take notes with their left hand, which subconsciously facilitates the sort of socialist thinking that supports abortion-on-demand and Michael Moore documentaries.”
Not surprisingly, skewed chair-desk ratios are most likely to be found in small liberal-arts colleges in New England such as Amherst, Middlebury, and Bowdoin, where even the math classes typically begin with an inspirational reading from Trotsky.
“This array of furniture represents a daily ergonomic micro-aggression against conservative students, and it must stop,” Beard demands. “We are now hearing reports of outbreaks of ‘trans-handedness’ on campuses throughout the United States. Many young people who were born biologically right-handed now actually prefer to take notes with their left hand. Some have ceased using their right hand when typing on their laptop, and are insisting that Obamacare pay for the surgical removal of that hand. At Colby College they’re even lobbying for ‘hand-neutral’ bathrooms. This is insane!”
Campus Reform will sponsor Burn, Baby, Burn, a classroom furniture bonfire, on the quadrangle at Williams College in February 2018.