Irish Examiner view: The modern student is trapped between larger forces not of their making

Student protest

MTU student Alma Krause from Cork takes four busses each day to get to and from classes at MTU, Cork. Picture: Noel Sweeney

At first glance the protest planned by students at Munster Technological University (MTU) yesterday smacked of privilege — a walkout motivated by the lack of car parking spaces for students at MTU’s Cork campus?

Surely nothing could scream ‘spoiled students’ more than this kind of petulant reaction to having no spaces on offer for cars being driven to lectures. To the casual viewer, it underlines the lazy slur that many of our college-age youngsters are lacking resilience. Where are the hardy college-goers of yesteryear, happy to get the bus? Or walk? Where is the environmental responsibility?