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[quote=Anonymous]it isn't systematic like high school, at least not at large state schools I went to or the private school I teach at.  There might be a bully here or there, but there aren't bystanders egging her/him on out of relief for not being targeted themselves.  There isn't a social pecking order that dominates the life of each student so that each student knows his/her place.  There isn't any visible signs of popularity - like cheerleading or student council to which all students on campus are called to witness at a pep rally or school assembly. So sure there is a student government, but I never voted or knew who was elected. Without such power there can't be any teeth to unkindness handed out form one student to another.  At my big state school, 3 people form high school went there.  They were, in hs, all popular (I was NOT). When we'd see each other on campus once or twice a semester we'd smile and gush a bit just at seeing a face from home.  Old hierarchies obliterated by the anonymity of college.

I think the only place this might be different is at schools like vassar and other high selective, small liberal arts schools?  But I'm basing this on Mary McCarthy's memoirs and Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman, so like 70 years ago[/quote]

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