Ivy educated teachers?

cobrat
Thu, 30 May 2013 00:55:35 +0000

Pizzagirl:

Look, cobrat, it’s evident that anyone who has anything “nice” you regard as “conspicuous consumption.” That’s your own hang-up. That doesn’t make it so. There is absolutely nothing conspicuous-consumption in the example I cited. Sorry people can’t have nice things – logo’ed or not – without offending you, but so be it.



I’m puzzled as to how you’re focusing this conversation all on me when I am making a generalized observation about how preferences for/against a campus culture of conspicuous consumption like the ones at GWU or NYU is a matter of individual taste and that they’re all valid for each individual student concerned.

What’s so bad about a student having a preference which causes them to reject campus cultures where conspicuous consumption is encouraged/commonplace? Must all students bow down before the o so superior divine wisdom of Pizzagirl? :D

It’s no different than choosing on basis of campus size, population, level of racial diversity, sports culture or lack thereof, types of fraternity/sorority cultural environment or the complete lack thereof*, etc.

*Many Oberlin classmates I knew cited the lack of fraternities/sororities as one of the key reasons why they chose to attend. On the flipside, I wouldn’t be surprised that Oberlin’s 130+ year ban on fraternity/sorority organizations caused applicants desiring to join such organizations to summarily rule it out from further consideration.

Likewise, those same classmates also cited the campus culture’s rejection of mainstream upper-middle class fashion norms/conspicuous consumption as another factor for attending. On the flipside, my clotheshorse cousin who enjoyed his time at GWU would have found Oberlin to be a miserable experience for that very same reason.