Junior High students are impressionable youngsters. University students are adults and should be mature enough to reject stupid statements by "professors". Else they shouldn't be at a university. Well, that's the theory at least...;)
You can't object to 18+-year-old violent thugs being called "youths" and then turn around and call adults "impressionable youngsters" if you want to be consistent.
Since you mention junior high, I have lived in a very liberal state in the northern Midwest where many adults are stuck in junior high.