@anotherparent posted:Too funny; given RJM's age, his point is that college isn't recently broken, it was always that way.
Which is probably true; before WWII, college was finishing school for rich young men (and a few women).
In the 19th century, Yale, Harvard, etc. paid poor but athletic young men to play on their sports teams.
I attended a very politically active, large university. Professors had no problem stating their politics if they were on the left. A majority were even then (post Viet Nam).
I didn’t have time for politics. It would have cut into what little free time I had for drinking beer and chasing women. I was busy playing baseball and figuring out how to beat the system (grades). I picked a math oriented major because it was easy for me.