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The optimistic side of this is that the backlash is inevitable.
by sanderjd 4y ago
The optimistic side of this is that the backlash is inevitable.
- jessriedel 4y agoIts not. Stanford and other elite schools know their brand name is immensely valuable and students will keep enrolling even if campus social life is bleached of all fun. The only real force pushing back at all are alumni whose donations fall (briefly) when a university squashes something too explicitly that had an unusual amount of sentimental value. But that just slows things down a bit.
- sanderjd 4y agoOh I don't mean at Stanford specifically necessarily, I mean backlash in the culture broadly.
- datavirtue 4y ago"Hold my beer" -- The people who never went to college.
- jessriedel 4y agoI can't see why. People won't stop hiring elite university grads, or being impressed by them at parties, because they hear the university social life has become less enriching.