When I went to college, dorms were ... dorms, not hotel rooms. If you wanted to exercise, you could go to the gym for free weights or run on the street ala "Rocky" (which had its own inspiration given this was Philadelphia in the mid-80s) instead of climbing walls and spas.

To help kids handle the pressure of exams, they had "Primal Scream Night" a couple days before the first exams where kids had a half hour to let loose with their frustrations. Apparently today's kids need a whole lot more: http://heatst.com/culture-wars/minia...l-exam-stress/

I hope to God taxpayer grants and funds aren't being used for this crap. Therapy dogs? Therapy horses? Coloring books and play dough? Seriously? Don't even get me started on the scratch-and-sniff bookmarks, zen gardens, or stuffed animals. WTF? Have we become an entire nation of pajama boys? Wait, don't answer that, Obama won re-election in 2012, of course we have.

I just got back from a vacation in New Zealand. College kids there in 2011 got to go help dig out Christchurch. I mean, really dig out -- even today the center of the city looks like a mixture of a war zone and modern city with whole blocks razed to the ground and new structures in various stages of rebuilding. They had a mini-army raised from college and high school students who just went to work at recovering from REAL stress. This year, they're going to get to go help dig out Kaikoura while American college kids make pretzel wands and build Hogwarts from Legos.