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Title
Reddit Thread on Rutgers program of giving iPads to new undergraduate students
Subject
Reddit Thread begun in August 2020 in which Rutgers community members, students and others, respond to the administration's program of sending new iPads to new undergraduate students, both freshman and transfer students.
Description
On August 12, 2020, the Rutgers administration announced that they would be sending new Apple iPads Air 256GB to all incoming undergraduate freshman and transfer students. This sparked many responses, including happiness, skepticism, and anger. Many of the responses are best understood in the context of larger fiscal austerity measures imposed by the Rutgers administration, including the elimination of hundreds of jobs at the university. This Reddit thread is one way of seeing those responses. Because Reddit is largely used anonymously, the responses are perhaps more unfiltered than when Rutgers community members speak under their own names.
Creator
Reddit users; Rutgers community members
Source
Reddit
Publisher
Audrey Truschke
Date
August 2020
Language
English
Coverage
New Jersey