"Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses"
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The subtext is sharper. “Share some responsibility” is a polite indictment of institutional convenience. Universities love to market themselves as caretakers of young adults while outsourcing the messy parts of real risk to individual “choice.” Ross is calling out that dodge. By proposing “general information,” he’s also threading a needle: he’s not demanding censorship, bans, or a moral panic crackdown. He’s asking for transparency and baseline literacy, the kind that makes manipulation harder to pull off.
Context matters because “recruitment efforts” is loaded language; it echoes anxieties about predatory organizations, high-pressure groups, or ideological funnels that thrive where people are lonely, ambitious, and newly independent. Campuses are prime terrain for that, and the first weeks are especially vulnerable. Ross’s celebrity status gives the line an interesting cultural charge: it’s not an academic theorist warning about power, but a public figure arguing for institutional duty of care in plain terms. The quote works because it reframes protection as information, not control, and it forces universities to admit they are not just venues; they are gatekeepers.
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Ross, Rick. (2026, January 15). Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/also-schools-share-some-responsibility-and-should-163779/
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Ross, Rick. "Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/also-schools-share-some-responsibility-and-should-163779/.
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"Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/also-schools-share-some-responsibility-and-should-163779/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.


