alt Hacker NewsPlease. Universities have students by the short and curlies. They can academically do basically whatever they want, and fail you for not complying. Professors can even demand their book be purchased, and fail for not buying the book.
Most universities are unethical shitholes that can do basically whatever they want to gatekeep a diploma.
It’s getting so bad. My wife is in a remote school where they fail students occasionally to squeeze a little extra $$ out of them.