That sounds about right. Based on a few visits to campus and my old dorm, I can see positive and negative trends: There are a lot more women, which is very good

That sounds about right. Based on a few visits to campus and my old dorm, I can see positive and negative trends: There are a lot more women, which is very good. There is a greater emphasis on support and success rather than sink or swim. That's good. There are also signs of more conformity and solid evidence of less tolerance of "hacks" in the traditional MIT way: Roofs, tunnels, and other prohibited areas are seriously secured and alarmed, and campus police are armed even though Cambridge is thoroughly gentrified, even gilded in places like Kendall Sq. Rafael Reif's hiding the identities and protecting the people who tragically escalated the Aaron Swartz matter from a no-harm-no-foul trespassing case to a federal prosecution outright stinks. Senior House had a decades-long record of problems and was in many ways a liability. Everybody knew this. There was no need to do anything in secret. It was a needlessly lousy approach and stinks of second-rate leadership.