I grew up after all the rules were broken in the '60s but before the brakes were, however tentatively, reapplied. The world felt genuinely lawless to a lot of teenagers and young adults in the '70s and early '80s.
Not saying current college students aren't often out of control, just that my generation is well-positioned to recognize the behavior and its consequences and, I hope, to address them.
I'm gonna guess that you erroneously linked. It's that or I'm just not quite creative enough to figure out what an Atlantic article on insourcing has to do with out of control college students.
Posted by: Jon Lowder | Dec 07, 2012 at 10:38 AM
Yeah, fixed, thanks.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Dec 07, 2012 at 10:50 AM
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son"
Posted by: Hugh | Dec 07, 2012 at 12:49 PM
When I was a kid and a college student in the '60's, I wouldn't have been caught dead inside a frat or sorority house, where all the Ivy League bad behavior seems to be happening. Neither would any of my friends.
The lawless seventies and eighties? I dunno...
Posted by: justcorbly | Dec 07, 2012 at 12:54 PM
I'm just grateful there wasn't a camera in every pocket during my college days. And that "shaming" hadn't been invented.
Posted by: Thomas | Dec 07, 2012 at 01:46 PM
So, a lot of our future media, finance, and government elites are willing to degrade themselves in order to get into an inner circle and hang out with the 'right people', to indulge in selfish self-gratification, and to cheat their way into getting their tickets punched.
No surprises then that our media is so compliant, our financiers so ruthless, and our politicians so corrupt.
Posted by: Vigilarus | Dec 08, 2012 at 01:57 AM
Yeah, good thing it only happens at the Ivies.
Posted by: Ed Cone | Dec 08, 2012 at 09:40 AM
...and anonymous....
Posted by: Marshall | Dec 08, 2012 at 08:56 PM