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The story is the administration was looking for a reason to shut it down.
by austenallred 9y ago
The story is the administration was looking for a reason to shut it down.
- tptacek 9y agoRight. Why?
- g-clef 9y agoFrom the article: The demise of Senior House is emblematic of a larger shift on campuses across the US. Last year my own alma mater, Wesleyan University, closed down its countercultural house Eclectic, which had existed for a century. A few years ago Cal-Tech shuttered its countercultural dorm Ricketts. “If it were just Senior House I would be upset and sad,” says alumna Christine Corbett Moran, an astrophysicist and engineer who, after graduation, helped write the code for the encrypted chat app Signal. “But I really see it as a harbinger of MIT and other colleges homogenizing and corporatizing.”
- JustAnotherPat 9y agoCounterculture is a threat to the current liberal elite status quo. After the defeat of Hillary Clinton, her corporate cronies are trying to consolidate power and develop an army of mindless millennial drones.
- throwawayjava 9y agoYes, because Senior House was full of Trump voters /s
- JustAnotherPat 9y agoEven Hillary Clinton admits she thinks she lost because of Bernie Sanders and his sexist bros.
- trophycase 9y agoIf she believes that she's doomed to repeat her failure.
- bjl 9y agoThe most cogent criticisms of liberalism come from the left, not the right.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agox2. The most meaningful change comes from within. There's a reason dictatorships spend a lot of effort trying to stamp out internal enemies.
- throwawayjava 9y agoStill, somehow I doubt SH is being shut down because "Clinton's corporate cronies" "consolidate power" by "cracking down" on cocaine-fueled "counter-cultural" threat to the "current liberal elite status quo". I think on this issue we can take administration at their word. They prefer clean high-performing students to drug-using mediocre students. Do I think that's a damn shameful way to frame the situation? Sure. But straight-shooting administrators who just simply don't care about counter-cultural values -- one way or the other -- seems like a infinitely more likely explanation than sinister political plot to undermine free-thinking individuals. Don't ascribe to political conspiracy what can be explained by bean-counting and political indifference.
- taysic 9y agoNo not really. Have you gone to Senior House? There are plenty of communist ideals all over the walls. I'm sure plenty of Hilary supporters though I haven't been there this recent election
- afarrell 9y agoUnless I'm misremembering where my social circle lived, there was at least one SH alum on the Clinton campaign's technology team.
- taysic 9y agoThe culture was not perpetuating success or safety for the students within the dorm.