According to your post, it seems we should all run from being "FORCED" to use a spell checker as well. I can see William F. Cooper's new book title now..."Spell Checkers, Handy Tool or Secret Government Plot?" Take the tin-foil off of your head - none of his (Cooper's) Y2K predictions came true... see a pattern developing here? When you read "Behold a Pale Horse" you should have made certain you didn't step in the big pile of Pale Horse Dung beneath the cover.
I cannot believe what I am reading. Have things changed that much in the six years since I graduated from college? I had no idea the students were being forced to live in 6x6 cells along side convicted murderers and rapists and take showers with the knowledge that at any moment they could be gang raped! So the university made a bone-headed decision, they usually do... so you can't get Coke (or Pepsi, depending on your campus) at the snack bar... so what!!!!! It in no way deserves the college-prison analogy. And I quote: "The inmates in both are treated like criminals.".... inmates ARE criminals! Students in no way endure the same fate, the comparison is illogical. "Prisons restrict peoples freedoms and are designed to create people who think and act a certain way. Schools do the exact same thing." People in prison should have their freedom restricted (.. it is a prison)and they (prisons) are designed to punish and rehabilitate people who have failed to live by societies rules. Schools are legally obligated to set forth certain restrictions in order to protect themselves from the stupid things college kids sometimes do. Blame today's "sue-happy" society for a lot of the restrictions placed on the students. I went to college, I did stupid things, I hated a lot of the rules, and I complained about them. Sometimes we got things changed, most of the time we didn't. That's part of life. That's part of the lesson you learn in college.I don't agree with Clemson's decision for a variety of reasons, none of which has anything to do with the poorly constructed comparsion of colleges to prisons.
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According to your post, it seems we should all run from being "FORCED" to use a spell checker as well. I can see William F. Cooper's new book title now..."Spell Checkers, Handy Tool or Secret Government Plot?" Take the tin-foil off of your head - none of his (Cooper's) Y2K predictions came true... see a pattern developing here? When you read "Behold a Pale Horse" you should have made certain you didn't step in the big pile of Pale Horse Dung beneath the cover.
I cannot believe what I am reading. Have things changed that much in the six years since I graduated from college? I had no idea the students were being forced to live in 6x6 cells along side convicted murderers and rapists and take showers with the knowledge that at any moment they could be gang raped! So the university made a bone-headed decision, they usually do ... so you can't get Coke (or Pepsi, depending on your campus) at the snack bar... so what!!!!! It in no way deserves the college-prison analogy. And I quote: "The inmates in both are treated like criminals." .... inmates ARE criminals! Students in no way endure the same fate, the comparison is illogical. "Prisons restrict peoples freedoms and are designed to create people who think and act a certain way. Schools do the exact same thing." People in prison should have their freedom restricted (.. it is a prison)and they (prisons) are designed to punish and rehabilitate people who have failed to live by societies rules. Schools are legally obligated to set forth certain restrictions in order to protect themselves from the stupid things college kids sometimes do. Blame today's "sue-happy" society for a lot of the restrictions placed on the students. I went to college, I did stupid things, I hated a lot of the rules, and I complained about them. Sometimes we got things changed, most of the time we didn't. That's part of life. That's part of the lesson you learn in college.I don't agree with Clemson's decision for a variety of reasons, none of which has anything to do with the poorly constructed comparsion of colleges to prisons.