It doesn&#x27;t help that campuses increasingly operate like day cares: they treat adult students like children.<p>A great example is orientation.  Throughout the US, until fairly recently (at my Alma Mater, SUNY New Paltz - it was 1973), orientation was 100% run by students with no state or &#x27;administrative&#x27; involvement.<p>And it was an adult event.  It involved camping, orienteering, and serious discussions about the life ahead.  Now that the state is involved, it&#x27;s a cringey PG-13 experience that leaves students completely disoriented and feeling like children.<p>The same is true of the way Student Union buildings are run today.  And residence life.  And university police.  And campus dining.  And many other facets of student life.