Barb - I can well believe the information you have given us about Yale. I don't think men like that, in privileged positions that they have mostly held from birth, ever change. I am sure it would be the same with many public (ie top private) school students here. They are brought up to be arrogant and scornful of anyone who disagrees with them. The most worrying thing is that, as you say, these men will one day be running the world.
My son went to an open day at one of the Scottish universities (not one of the old ones, as it happens) and was appalled at the laddish, drinking, culture. I was a student at one of the oldest universities in the UK, and although people did obviously drink and get drunk then, it was nothing like it is today - the whole of Freshers' Week is now one long drinking session, and it doesn't seem to stop after that. Everything seems to have become so much more brutal and excessive - although even in my day the old Etonians (for whom there were closed scholarships at my college) had their own drinking clubs and thought nothing of then marauding around the place, urinating against the walls and vomiting. If you have seen the scene in Brideshead Revisited when Sebastian and Charles first meet, nothing has much changed for the wealthy, for whom there seem to be no consequences for anything. And like your Yale students, our old Etonians largely rule the country.
Rosemary
