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I was closely involved in this controversy at the time and I can attest to the "loudest voice" problem where a small number of people magnified the situation fa

• naturalgradient 9y ago
  It stuck out with me because it made me realise that many students were not at all emotionally well equipped to handle certain situations of adult life. A problem here especially is how quickly anything done by the university is framed as an attack on the mental health and safety of students. For example, in a recent survey, students were asked about their mental health issues. Examples of the university not being supportive enough were things such as 'I was not given an extension on an essay'. These incidents make me realise that a non-trivial fraction of this generation of students really feels intense emotional distress to a point of needing counselling over things my generation would book under normal aspects of adult life. In these cases, there is also little self-reflection on one's own responsibility to handle such situations - everything is framed as an attack.