> So if that's it, this is just a numbers story. There are certainly those who view it that way. > But not as much of a story to write about intrigue and malf

> So if that's it, this is just a numbers story. There are certainly those who view it that way. > But not as much of a story to write about intrigue and malfeasance at MIT. MIT is a big place with a lot of opinions about "what makes it MIT". The admins have one point of view. Sometimes that aligns with the current students and alums. There was an element of cerebral creativity in Senior House that one might argue does not fit well in the corporate mold or play well to the numbers game Barnhart chose. It nevertheless strikes me as a societal loss to see it go away. To steal an analogy from the article: Tor will not make its Senior House creators rich, or bring in gobs of cash to the MIT endowment. So the numbers story tells us it's a pretty terrible return, and we should shut it down, but the real error is that my chosen monetary numbers don't tell the story.