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    Commentary: College students are more complex and caring than we assume

    by Barry Glassner And Morton Schapiro, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2018 2 minutes

    U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' description of college students as "sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes" might just be the best example of alliteration from a government official since Vice President Spiro Agnew called the news media "nattering nabobs of negativism."

    But the clever use of words doesn't necessarily reveal the truth.

    Students who will return to college campuses in the coming weeks are from a generation that

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