On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Justin Schwartz wrote:
> I have a suspicion it's who you talk to. I went to Tigertown between 1975
> and 1979. There were students like the ones Brooks describes. They were not
> the majority. Certainly the prevailing attitude at the place is rule by
> divibe right. Outside of a small circle, few people were interested in
> intellectual discussion out of class. However, almost everybody was
> seriously into getting (a) drunk, (b) high, and (c) laid, in the time
> honored tradition of college students. The Woodiewoo (Woodrow Wilson School)
> crowd was alway super careerist. --jks
>
That's the thing about journalism--it's often not much more than glorified anecdotes to support preconceptions. It's not that hard to actually study things like student behavior and attitudes using social science methods. It's always been strange to me how journalists have little or no background in social science research methods.
Miles