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boardise wrote: »

College students are adults and should be dealt with as such -not indulged as if they were hapless children driven by impulses they can't control. They have been appealed to and encouraged to be socially compliant ( The president of UL showed great leadership in going around to student rental residences to express the gravity of the situation. )
If they don't play ball there should be less of the cajoling and more coercion with suitable penalties.
Students must learn quickly that life can turn sour and ugly at any stage and they can't be given a free pass to continue unscathed as if everything is as normal.

I agree with that. I think we are increasingly following the US example that treats university students, a group of grown adults, many of whom are over 20, as if they’re teenagers.

We need to get past this notion of seeing college as school. It isn’t. For the most part you would have more personal interaction with your gym instructor than most lecturers, yet there’s a growing expectation that universities should act in loco parentis for a group of adults. It’s a joke.

If you can’t handle living independently as an adult, then you should be treated as such - trash a house, be evicted etc. Cause a major disturbance, be taken to court, like anyone else!

It’s both patronising and condescending to students on the one hand and on the other, it’s creating a special class of people who are not treated the same as the rest of the population. That isn’t reasonable.

Does adolescence now last to 50?!

It also creates a sense that universities are for young people only. They’re not and that’s never been the case.