HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF?

It appears that the obnoxious behaviour and ill concealed contempt aimed at all 'beneath them' is not new to modern day tertiary students.

The 'normals'(deplorables) of Oxford in the middle ages afforded the 'intellectuals' of that era their due comeuppance:

The seed of the riot was an altercation in the Swindlestock Tavern in Oxford (now the site of the Santander Bank on Carfax, on the corner of St Aldate's and Queen Street) between two students of the University of Oxford, Walter Spryngeheuse and Roger de Chesterfield, and the taverner, John Croidon. They complained about the quality of drinks, which led to an exchange of rude words that ended with the students throwing their drinks in the taverner's face and assaulting him.[2] Retaliation for this incident led to armed clashes between locals and students.
The mayor of Oxford, John de Bereford, asked the Chancellor of Oxford University, Humphrey de Cherlton, to arrest the two students, to no avail. Instead, 200 students supported Spryngeheuse and Chesterfield, allegedly assaulting the mayor and others.[2] As the situation escalated, locals from the surrounding countryside poured in, crying: "Havac! Havoc! Smyt fast, give gode knocks!"[3]
A riot broke out and lasted two days, which left 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead.[2][4] The scholars were eventually routed.

Anyone want to predict that something of a similar outcome is brewing in our post-modern utopia called academia?