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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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Dozens of students at Cornell University gathered on a major campus thoroughfare for a “cry-in” to mourn the results of the 2016 presidential election Wednesday, with school staff providing tissues and hot chocolate. At Tufts University, arts and crafts were on offer. And the University of Kansas reminded students via social media of the therapy dogs available
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It's impossible to exaggerate how infantilized higher education has become. Imagine the astonishment of students who attended college in the 40s and 50s under the GI bill if they hopped in a time machine.
There's clearly some kind of cultural sea change going on here. Either people are growing up far more fragile than any other cohort of adults in history (if so why?), or there's some strange cult of misery sprouting up among institutions catering to the affluent.
Is this just a North American thing, or do we see public rituals of extreme sensitivity and distress among young adults in China, Brazil, Poland, etc?