Do you think they are talking about bitcoin in your basic ECON class?
One of the ECON professor discussed about bitcoin in class but he just keep on telling the negative side of bitcoin like disadvantage of this coin. I think he's just discouraging students not to believe in bitcoin. And he even said that bitcoin will be ban in our country so we shouldn't waste our time on bitcoin.
While that is a shame at the same time bad publicity is still publicity if the students did not knew what bitcoin was they now know, the only thing they need to do is to simply question authority which is something that as a college student you must do.