IU really is insane. My husband and I have some connections to academia and have lived in a lot of college towns and spent a lot of time in various campuses. Never have we encountered a situation as unhinged as IU.
We spent a few days there and the professors seem to be in an all out war with both the townies and the students. One professor told us (thinking we were in-group) that the students show up as "Trump supporters" from "ignorant families" that it's the job of the professors to "fix that." They also treat the townies like subhumans or serfs. My husband and I both saw professors yell at waiters and bus drivers. It's really a crazy situation. Professors at other land grant institutions aren't that unhinged and neither are the prestigious East Coast schools. It's some sort of special IU bubble of cra cra.
IU really is insane. My husband and I have some connections to academia and have lived in a lot of college towns and spent a lot of time in various campuses. Never have we encountered a situation as unhinged as IU.
We spent a few days there and the professors seem to be in an all out war with both the townies and the students. One professor told us (thinking we were in-group) that the students show up as "Trump supporters" from "ignorant families" that it's the job of the professors to "fix that." They also treat the townies like subhumans or serfs. My husband and I both saw professors yell at waiters and bus drivers. It's really a crazy situation. Professors at other land grant institutions aren't that unhinged and neither are the prestigious East Coast schools. It's some sort of special IU bubble of cra cra.