from the desperation-sets-in dept

A few weeks back, I read a Washington Post story "Inside the admissions process at George Washington University" and noted this interesting tidbit towards the end:

GW also asks students to list a role model and two words to describe themselves. As for herself, Freitag said, she would list “Martha Stewart/Tina Fey” and “sassy/classy.” This year, she’s seeing a lot of Edward Snowden citations.

I had thought about writing it up, but decided it was a pretty small thing, really. It's not secret that, as a group, younger people have a much more favorable impression of Snowden than older people.

However, apparently it set off alarm bells in James Clapper's head. He recently gave a keynote speech at the GEOINT conference, and used the opportunity to vent about stupid kids and their stupid love of that stupid Ed Snowden. And apparently he's going to be doing a lot of that. “An admissions officer from George Washington University told The Post that for the admissions’ essay question, ‘Who’s your personal hero?’

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140419/07565426966/james-clapper-giving-speeches-to-students-begging-them-to-stop-thinking-ed-snowden-as-hero.shtml