NUin students have consistently been the easiest scapegoats for all campus problems, and our TrustyPolling shows that this year has seen record levels of hatred for these hapless students. NUin students have been saddled with the blame for a variety of on-campus issues, and many must also face the horrific stigma of not being admitted to the Boston campus. Rather than accurately identifying school administrators’ ceaseless greed for tasty, tasty tuition money as being the true root cause of overcrowding on campus, many students have found it much easier to simply turn off their critical thinking skills. Instead, they blame their peers for making the tragic error of taking their first semester overseas. Or in Oakland.
While NUin students are usually just casually blamed for overcrowding on the Boston campus, some students use them as a patsy in order to avoid coming to terms with their own personal failings. Local student Bigo Tree told the Trusty Husky that he blames NUin students for almost everything that has gone wrong in his life. “It’s not that I’m bigoted against them, necessarily, I think we just need to talk about how they took everything from me. Did you know my ex-girlfriend cheated on me with an NUin student?” Tree then stopped responding to our questions and began rambling about his love life.
NUin student Allen Good Funn told the Trusty Husky that the blame is misplaced. “We’re people too, you know? We suffer from overcrowding as much as any other student on campus. We wait in the lines at the dining halls alongside you. Next time you think about laying the blame for minor inconveniences at our feet, maybe consider what broader, institutional reasons might be the true cause for the dysfunction.”
Efrain Ortiz contributed reporting for this article.
