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I also have "worldly experience", but, I'm with the students on this one. I heard the fearless campaign and thought it was marketing hype without substance. The old slogan about changing the world really was about Oberlin. We looked at a lot of different schools for my son, who is most interested in progressive politics, and believe me the ones that emphasize changing the world are few and far between.
Also, I don't think it is right to rely on "worldly experience" for two reasons. One, it seems like a way to say you can just ignore other people's opinions without addressing what they are saying. Two, for a marketing campaign the reactions of the people the campaign is aimed at seems really important, even more important than the reaction of others (such as those of us with more "wordly experience"). If I was selling a product I would be more interested in what my prospective customers had to say about my campaign than what their parents had to say.
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