What are the most important issues for students today? Is the university 1) ________ really such a different place compared to what it was 40 years ago? For the students in the 1960s, going to college was the most exciting and 2) ______ experience of their life. They took part in 3) ________ and launched 4) _________ against the establishment with their new and 5) _____________ commitment to freedom and justice. Going to college also meant their first 6) ________ of real freedom. They could discuss the meaning of life, read their first 7) ____________ book and see their first indie film. In contrast, the students today don’t have the 8) _________ for college life that they used to. Today, college is seen as a kind of small town from which people are 9) ________ to escape. Instead of the 10) ________ atmosphere of freedom which students in the 1960s discovered, students today are much more 11) __________. College has become a 12) _________to an end, an opportunity to improve their 13) __________ of being competitive in the 14) ______________ market, and not an end in itself. But in spite of all this, the role of the university is the same as it always has been. It is the place where students have the 15) _____________ to learn to think for themselves.