[mutoo1]

I suspect this will be an unpopular view, but how about not admitting kids with mental illness and substance abuse problems like the kid featured in the article? I'm sorry, but what did anyone expect was going to happen? 

And his sense of entitlement is amazing to me. He expected that Stanford was going to give him a ton of resources on top of what is almost certainly a free education or nearly-free education? My god. 

I'm not at all indifferent to mental health issues, but I feel like people are expecting way too much from universities these days. They're in an impossible position in many respects, plus it's not their mission to be everything to everybody.

hmmm...victim mentality & snowflake syndrome are much of what's wrong with today's youth, along with texting instead of talking, social media addiction and too much indoctrination in the lower grades.  not to mention too many other addictions.

bagging groceries is far beneath today's aspiring stanford student.

i'm older now but feel younger having said it.  we should long for the days of dean fred and how he got it; he & his staff admitted a far broader range of students than is the case today.

stanford is being ruined by greed as well as excesses not focused on what should be its core mission:  educating its students to think for themselves.

leaving at halftime saturday night, i said to my wife, there were probably not even 10,000 fans at the game...i wonder if the athletic department even thought about reducing the $30 parking fee?  i'm fortunate in not having to care about that but alas, i do.

i also said to my wife that i have a nagging feeling stanford will find a way to lose this game.  

another alas:  i stayed up and watched us lose in an unimaginably painful way.

[mutoo1]

I suspect this will be an unpopular view, but how about not admitting kids with mental illness and substance abuse problems like the kid featured in the article? I'm sorry, but what did anyone expect was going to happen? 

And his sense of entitlement is amazing to me. He expected that Stanford was going to give him a ton of resources on top of what is almost certainly a free education or nearly-free education? My god. 

I'm not at all indifferent to mental health issues, but I feel like people are expecting way too much from universities these days. They're in an impossible position in many respects, plus it's not their mission to be everything to everybody.

hmmm...victim mentality & snowflake syndrome are much of what's wrong with today's youth, along with texting instead of talking, social media addiction and too much indoctrination in the lower grades.  not to mention too many other addictions.

bagging groceries is far beneath today's aspiring stanford student.

i'm older now but feel younger having said it.  we should long for the days of dean fred and how he got it; he & his staff admitted a far broader range of students than is the case today.

stanford is being ruined by greed as well as excesses not focused on what should be its core mission:  educating its students to think for themselves.

leaving at halftime saturday night, i said to my wife, there were probably not even 10,000 fans at the game...i wonder if the athletic department even thought about reducing the $30 parking fee?  i'm fortunate in not having to care about that but alas, i do.

i also said to my wife that i have a nagging feeling stanford will find a way to lose this game.  

another alas:  i stayed up and watched us lose in an unimaginably painful way.