02-26-2013, 01:09 AM
A superb article. I seldom see journalism like that in any paper anymore. I hope it has the power to raise enough consciouness to get the situation changed.Â
Something I have notice not just at Stanford, but at universities everywhere. The 1970s were an era in which many student-centered experiments and reforms began. While not all of them worked, even the ones that did now seem to have been gradually rolled back. That concerns flexible curriculum being turned into elaborate requirements, housing and eating coops being corporatized, middle class financial aid dwindling, needs-blind admissions and lack of legacy admits giving way, etc. The egalitarian ethos that emerged from the years after the student movement seems nearly gone. Universities have become much more paternalistic and bureaucratic. This article, sadly, reflects that deplorable trend.
Something I have notice not just at Stanford, but at universities everywhere. The 1970s were an era in which many student-centered experiments and reforms began. While not all of them worked, even the ones that did now seem to have been gradually rolled back. That concerns flexible curriculum being turned into elaborate requirements, housing and eating coops being corporatized, middle class financial aid dwindling, needs-blind admissions and lack of legacy admits giving way, etc. The egalitarian ethos that emerged from the years after the student movement seems nearly gone. Universities have become much more paternalistic and bureaucratic. This article, sadly, reflects that deplorable trend.