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oberle

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5. Students should not have this much power

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2025, 07:51 PM

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over the faculty. They are there to learn, and not to derail a professor's career. If they don't like the course, they should leave. I may be old fashioned, having been in college in the 60s and 70s. I do not like this new breed of entitled students.

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