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I'm reading The Shadow Scholar, a book by a man who makes his living by writing papers for college students. There's a root and branch attack on Rutgers, a university which is sort of an educational scam which loots the students for the benefit of the parking system and the athletics program.
Poking around online, the only people I've found who've said he's unfair to Rutgers have been very marginal about it (they say it's possible to get a good education at Rutgers), and a number who agree that it's really that bad.
what does this mean?
It's a combination of not enough parking, not enough buses, high parking tickets, and not letting people graduate unless their parking tickets are paid.
It's also claimed that the department which handles parking tickets is literally the only part of the university the author dealt with where people seemed to be focused on doing their jobs.