I went to college and grad school in the 1980s. It was a place to be exposed to new things and new people and new ideas. And an environment to grow up in and learn to take care of yourself.
I gave up about three paragraphs in to this essay. This level of coddling would seem infantalizing to a first grader. I guess that now, by the time you get to college, you have eighteen years of education regarding how the world is a scary place and you probably should just cower in a corner and hope the bad people don’t get you.
Most colleges/universities (like companies and society at large) turn a blind eye to and even enable the abuse of their women (and some men) students. See many cases of such with coaches and doctors and professors and students as perps with minimal response to student complaints of abuse. This is JOB ONE for improved mental health on campus, not more faculty "trainings" and publicizing of available "resources".
When I was in college, we were very eager to learn about the world out there and all the people in it currently and historically- not learn how to focus on the “me and my truth”syndrome. That syndrome had not been created yet. What an awful, awful syndrome. It can really make one mentally ill.
As a Dartmouth grad - colleges have turned into insane asylums long ago, and are now coming to grips with this reality. Public (and most private) education system abuses children from kindergarten on with psychological manipulation and propaganda of evil. No surprise that by the time they are in college they all require institutionalization.
I went to college and grad school in the 1980s. It was a place to be exposed to new things and new people and new ideas. And an environment to grow up in and learn to take care of yourself.
I gave up about three paragraphs in to this essay. This level of coddling would seem infantalizing to a first grader. I guess that now, by the time you get to college, you have eighteen years of education regarding how the world is a scary place and you probably should just cower in a corner and hope the bad people don’t get you.
Most colleges/universities (like companies and society at large) turn a blind eye to and even enable the abuse of their women (and some men) students. See many cases of such with coaches and doctors and professors and students as perps with minimal response to student complaints of abuse. This is JOB ONE for improved mental health on campus, not more faculty "trainings" and publicizing of available "resources".
When I was in college, we were very eager to learn about the world out there and all the people in it currently and historically- not learn how to focus on the “me and my truth”syndrome. That syndrome had not been created yet. What an awful, awful syndrome. It can really make one mentally ill.
As a Dartmouth grad - colleges have turned into insane asylums long ago, and are now coming to grips with this reality. Public (and most private) education system abuses children from kindergarten on with psychological manipulation and propaganda of evil. No surprise that by the time they are in college they all require institutionalization.