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Look, if I was suddenly able to rewrite federal laws- universities accepting federal funds(including for loans) would be allowed to house students in conditions no better than those junior enlisted in the army experience(food would have to be absolutely identical down to coming in boxes labeled 'not suitable for prison use'). All classes with writing components would require in-class handwritten essays, and if the professor can't read your writing too damn bad(I say this as someone who would, probably, have failed out of middle school without accommodations for my terrible handwriting). Federal student loans have to go through underwriting and the underwriter can cut you off at any time. Everyone involved is exempted from federal antidiscrimination laws, and all jobs connected to the diversity industrial complex are now ended, with the people involved permanently barred from any work in the education system other than janitorial.
But that's not happening. Any solution which doesn't allow the vast majority of women to get college degrees in partial literacy and not fucking up too too bad isn't going to happen. This is a dumb societal waste of resources but it's not going anywhere- and I don't see how letting them have artificial stupidity write their essays in whatever retarded nonsense we're pretending is a course of study for them hurts anyone but themselves. Indeed, it's probably a societal net positive to have them waste less effort on this crap.
Apparently tons of people have seen these yet there’s zero pictures of them on the internet. A ton of those same military folks say it’s because if food might have bones the prisons don’t want to take a chance on it.
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US navy nuke school has single dorm rooms. So does Sandhurst. It looks like the bits of the military that do academically rigorous training appreciate that students need more creature comforts than soldiers in boot camp. Per @pbmonster below, in (American) boot camp the cruelty is the point - the drills perform sadism deliberately, they weren't all born that way.
Infantry privates don’t sleep in barracks on base either, not in the U.S. military. They live in dorms that aren’t as nice as on college campuses but are pretty similar to conditions for 90’s dorm rooms.
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I have a hunch for the Navy Nukes it's less about creature comforts, and more about ensuring they can have undisturbed rest and privacy for better studying.
Absolutely - and the same should apply for the new austere Harvard for the same reasons.
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Why? Is the cruelty actually the point this time? Because I see absolutely no gain here.
Palatable meals (produced at scale at a stable location) are not expensive, especially not when compared to education. Barracks bunk beds might benefit unit cohesion, instill obedience/submission and be easier to supervise/police, but that's far less necessary for the next generation of academics, and the trade-off in privacy and independence is absolutely not worth the price difference.
I'd go the other way. Kill mandatory "all-you-can-eat" meal plans (also makes the "freshman twenty" less of a thing) and mandatory on-campus dorm life. Have private businesses operate the dorms and cafeterias (plural, they need to compete) and let students live off-campus the moment they want.
And if you want to safe money, start cutting at the admin building.
This is how we generally do things in Germany, to a large degree.
Okay, almost. The "Studentenwerk" (a government-sponsored citywide institution) typically runs a canteen on campus and also provides low-end housing significantly below market value (typically off-campus, though), but they are legally distinct from the university, and students are not required to interact with them in any way (besides paying a minimal fee, perhaps). Plenty of students rent private rooms or flats and prefer private food vendors.
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Because college has turned into a four year vacation to get a certificate of completion at taxpayer expense, not an institute of higher learning. The goal here is to drive out people who just want taxpayer backed loans to be taken care of while doing nothing productive.
Privates in the army don’t live in conditions that are that bad anyways- I’ll flip the question on you, why do college kids need the one star resorts they live in?
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Well it doesnt hurt them at all, otherwise it wouldn't be cheating. The injured parties are non-cheating competitors (although good luck finding one in these majors methinks), and society, which is ostensibly being tricked into thinking they are looking at a slip of paper that shows this woman can do a lot of mind numbing gruntwork, but in fact just scrolls tictok all day.
??? It's completely possible to cheat ineffectively and harm yourself in the process. Just look at exercising: you can use bad form to inflate your numbers, but that increases injury risk and decreases gains. It both hurts them and is cheating. Is the same true of academic dishonesty? Maybe.
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