<p>the perceptions (and anger?!) of a small group of students in 1999-2002 about the declining intellectual quality of students who came after them, imagined to be because those students have parents who can afford to pay full or portion of tuition costs, strikes me at best as naive, at worst, as a form of vanity. It certainly says nothing about the students who are presently at Oberlin, who seem as smart, committed, and more diverse than in previous years in this decade.</p>