IT'S CRUNCH TIME. A story makes the academic rounds about the professor who began a class, "Have any of you ever had a professor who you really thought was mean ... asked too much work ... graded too hard?" Heads begin nodding in agreement. The professor continues, "It has occurred to you that there are some of you we can't stand either?"

Something similar is playing out in print at St. Cloud State. A student, overwhelmed with deadlines, offers the school paper an op-ed.

College is extremely stressful and many drop out. It's difficult to balance a social life with the immense amount of work professors pile onto students.

It gets better.

King at SCSU Scholars fires back.

You later write "Many of those who teach at the college level should not be in a classroom." You know, of course, we say the same thing -- "many of those who attend college should not be in a classroom." And, mirabile dictu, most of you aren't ... until after Thanksgiving.

There's more.