Stanford’s war on social life
This highlights something I feel like most older people on Hackernews, and generally don&#x27;t know about modern student life!<p>the amount of university involvement in what&#x27;s going on in everyone&#x27;s personal lives has increased substantially from when you were in school, much to the adulation of a portion of the student population.
Unis now focus on &quot;student welfare&quot;, which really just means expanding the universities reach into what everyone is up to. The most obvious of this is campus police depts.<p>Where I went to school the admin was straight up bolshevikan in mass, complexity, and sense of self importance.<p>Generally speaking any self governing student org, particularly greek life, was treated as a liability to be carefully balanced against the amount of donations they bring in.<p>EDIT: One more thing, 99.9% of these dumbass rules are made due to actuaries in insurance companies or lawyers trying to minimize university liability.