Maggie's Farm

The mistake that people often make about those attending college is to regard them as students. They are customers. That’s the way the college sees them - consumers of dorm space, dining hall passes, and book store merchandise. Colleges want to keep the customers happy and also want to keep them rolling in year after year. Putting them in their place in a public way is not good for business. Taking back control is only done when the customers get too rowdy and threaten the income stream, such as was the case with Evergreen State College when the rowdy got too rowdy and enrollment suffered.