They begin with recent examples of the growing trend toward academic sensibility: “Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for the New Yorker about law students asking my fellow Harvard professors not to teach rape law…or…to use the word rape” (Lukianoff 1). Showing an example of student extremes in an attempt to avoid student distress, Lukianoff and Haidt then follow with two examples of articles written by professors, one which was later the subject of complaints filed against her by students and the other too scared to even publish the article with his real name. To effectively prove their point, Lukianoff and Haidt end their introduction with the fact that even professional comedians are too afraid to perform at universities by claiming that students "don't know how to joke" (Lukianoff 1). This introduction effectively reinforces their initial argument that the students were so pampered that they took everything offensively to the point that they even scared their students.