Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140829002738/@comment-24891101-20140901022708

Basically, yes, on your first and second. All my point meant to be on the second was that graduates do not have to Hunt upon graduation; they may choose to follow a different career path, even if they qualify as Hunters. So Beacon would offer degrees in academic majors, in addition to the Hunting, with obvious emphasis on the latter. So everyone is majoring in Hunting, yes, but lots of people are double-majoring in something else, related to Hunting in some capacity. They're just all also certified badasses, as it were.

As to your third, I disagree. Yes, Ironwood could make those arguments, but that would not let him take over. At the end of the day, he is a military representative of a foreign power, and Beacon's corruption is an affair internal to Vale, regardless of the alleged theft of a top-secret Atlesian military project. Vale itself would investigate, Ozpin may be forced out, but he'd be replaced by someone from Vale, not Ironwood, who wouldn't be investigating anyway. And the SDC info was legally accessed, though perhaps passing it on is questionable (she can't exactly be accused of "politely asking for information about her own company and getting it"). Plus, no one bats an eye, legally, at Ruby's vigilantism in the first episode (she's just questioned at the police station, by a non-cop, no less, no charges are filed), and though the cops show up at the docks, all they seem to do is question our heroes, then let them go. Especially since the first is a much more justifiable case for self-defence, and the latter is actual intervention.