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- Jeff Jasper wrote:
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- > I am starting to think that many of the people here are really hateful
- > of college students.
-
- Not me. There are individual students who have said that students as
- a class should get special treatment. This isn't much different from
- saying they should be able to butt in line at the ticket window. You
- should expect some hostility, and anyone who wants to get in front of
- me should have better excuses than
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- 1. I'm a good person.
- 2. I work hard.
- 3. My needs are legitimate.
- 4. I won't take the last seat.
- 5. The other theater lets me do it.
- 6. I'll build a new theater some day.
-
- even if *all* of these things turn out to be true. I don't doubt that
- (1) through (3) are true of a lot of students, but they're not *unique*
- to students. They're true of some of us non-students too, and none of
- us could ask for a discount on that basis alone.
-
- - Ernie
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- (who is rapidly running out of ways to explain this, and who apologizes
- to anyone who used to think he was a sane person)
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