I admit I find it annoying (if not totally unexpected) that the students are the ones that got the ball rolling.

For all the wrong reasons.., and in the wrong ways - unless there was a solutions proposal that went unmentioned in the article.

Any stigma associated with a demonstrated lack of "love of learning" is strictly on Y.O.U.

You don't get to be both, socially preoccupied, and, academically high-achieving - unless you're truly exceptional. Once again, it's a question of conscious purpose. What conscious purpose is served by protesting the fact that by existing standards, you're an academic scrub, if you do nothing concrete to either elevate your game in terms of the existing academic standard, or, replace that system of development and measurement with something more effective?