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Re:More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Ap... by ethbr0 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:44PM (#35215470)
Making mistakes is one of the most important parts of college, but sadly another one that's being torn down by over-zealous administration and campus policing.

My father went to a small, rural school whose local police force generally took the approach that as long as it didn't hurt anyone "At worst, a night in jail and no record of the arrest." Even for what would be considered distribution of hard drugs now.

When I went to school, students got a slap on the wrist for burning a hole in their dorm floor with thermite.

10 years after I went to school, a student was charged with a terrorism offense for making a dry ice pressure bottle and tossing it out of their dorm window as a joke.

And as near as I can tell, it's gotten stricter since. See: bitching about Harvard's dismantling of independent fun.

"Make lots of mistakes" isn't feasible if it ends up on a permanent record.

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Re:More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Ap... by waynesonfire on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:25PM (#35215725)
lol what? this isn't high school bro.
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Re:More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Ap... by rnk on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:49PM (#35215855)
Police record, not some hidden college record
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Re:More Students Are Turning Away from College and Toward Ap... by khalilravanna on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:05PM (#35239433)
It’s a bummer cause it’s so short sighted in how it cripples creativity and open minded thinking. Fear has never been a motivator for almost anything good.

Dumb example I’ll share for a laugh is when I went to university (graduated 2013) they would put you on the sex offender registry for peeing outside and even for going in the wrong gendered restroom. One time I got obliterated and desperately needed to puke. But I was in a dorm where every other floor had your gender’s bathroom. Given my luck I was on the wrong floor. So my choice was potentially end up a sex offender for puking in a girl’s restroom stall or puke in the stairwell thus stinking it up for weeks. Guess which choice fear motivated me to make. Sorry about the stairwell, guys.

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