"And if a student there really tried to learn something:"
That is really sick of them. I firmly beleive that some liberals want to keep people stupid and dependent on govt services. Much as a heroin pusher keeps his customers dependent on him.
I was at New Jersey Institute of Technology (the former Newark College of Engineering) at the time. Maybe a bit of a liberal at the time (yet pro-military, I was more of a Scoop Jackson Democrat than a McGovernite and really disliked McGovern), yet thought "what is wrong with this picture". The liberal system seemed to want to keep people dependant.