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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by Consultant32452 on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:24AM (#24159091)
It's staggering to me how much people will publicly support government subsidized partying and friend making. At least in the past it felt like people pretended it was about education.
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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by TomVDB on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:01PM (#24160361)
Partying in college is totally a new phenomenon!
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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by mhh__ on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:42PM (#24161659)
I'm pretty sure I read in either Herodotus or Thucydides a paragraph documenting complaints that the students were drinking instead of training.

Sound familiar? (And that was several thousand years ago)

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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t... by Consultant32452 on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:37PM (#24160807)
It's not new, but that was never really part of the sales pitch of why we should subsidize it.
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