“What this must do to the students mental health.”
It’s Middlebury, a hippie-dippy rich-liberal school. The mental health level there was likely already poor.
From google:
The median family income of a student from Middlebury is $244,300, and 76% come from the top 20 percent. Jan 18, 2017
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