The Youth Of Today Are So Lucky

I get a kick out of articles like this:

Middlebury College history students are no longer allowed to use Wikipedia in preparing class papers.

The school's history department recently adopted a policy that says it's OK to consult the popular online encyclopedia, but that it can't be cited as an authoritative source by students.

The policy says, in part, "Wikipedia is not an acceptable citation, even though it may lead one to a citable source." * * *

Wikipedia? On-line research?

Looxury.

Kids these days. When I was in school, I had it tough. We didn't have Wikipedia. We didn't even have the internets. In fact, electronic legal research was just getting started when I was in law school (it was very primitive by today's standards), and my big law school paper was actually prepared by using a typewriter. Remember those? If not, Wikipedia has a good description of them here.

Yeah, things are definitely much easier now. But you try telling that to the young people of today, and they won't believe you.