Word: tech
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Time spent developing consumer products is time not spent reading a great work, or pursuing some purely academic project. Given the busy schedules of most students, any efforts directed toward building a business will undoubtedly be diverted from more scholarly endeavors. Defenders of the TECH insist that entrepreneurship is a skill that young people should acquire as part of a broad-based education. This seems a specious claim at best...
...heart, the goal is the same in either case. It is unlikely, for good reason, that the University would support a Center for the Ascent to Middle Management. And, any special virtues that one might ascribe to entrepreneurship are undermined by the very existence of an institution like TECH. The courage, fortitude and resolve required to forge out on one's own--the very qualities that form the foundation of our respect for entrepreneurs--become totally unnecessary when you have a support center to rely upon and your status as a student to fall back upon...
...tragedy of the TECH becomes particularly apparent when its supporters compare it to the IOP. We all know that the IOP exists to cultivate good citizenship. How sad that an aptitude for e-commerce is now considered equally important to the well-being of our youth...
...system of financial aid insures that most students need only devote a marginal amount of effort towards staying afloat. And, there is no reason to believe that the compute science and engineering departments are not doing an adequate job developing technological skills without the blatantly commercial overtones of the TECH...
...fortunes after they have earned their degrees. Perhaps the powers-that-be within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been watching too much "MoneyLine." Whatever the motivation, they have lost sight of the true purpose of the College. To use the parlance of the trade, the TECH should be abandoned while it is still in beta...