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> This is true at MIT as well. Can’t imagine the hacks of old being allowed. Indeed, at a time the admissions process was advertising MIT's hacks of old, and t
by Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
> This is true at MIT as well. Can’t imagine the hacks of old being allowed.
Indeed, at a time the admissions process was advertising MIT's hacks of old, and they were featured in the museum, the administrators changed both the makeup and mission of the campus police. From experienced and wise older officers who were looking for a calmer post before retirement into younger aggressive sorts, and they started arresting and charging people doing non-destructive hacks, harassing parties that would previously have been tolerated and so on.
- whymauri 4y agoThe administrators have gotten insufferable. In 2019 I co-ran an event for student-alumni bonding that invites alumni from all years, mostly families, to come back to the school and share a large historic feast with students. The administrators did not like that this would include alumni from a dormitory that was closed for 'policy violations' (note: most of these alumni are perfectly functional parents and adults! they have no interest in debauchery with undergrads) so they tried everything to sabotage this student-alumni gathering. At one point they claimed, verbatim, that 'preparing and serving potato salad presents a liability to the Institute' when discussing the tradition of students and alumni preparing side dishes together. Potato salad liability... we built a wooden rollercoaster in the courtyard the previous year!
- onionisafruit 4y agoWas it a vinegar-based potato salad? If so, that’s a liability to good taste, but probably not something the school administration should concern itself with.
- bradgessler 4y agoNext time consider getting a potato salad liability insurance policy so you can put the institution at ease.
- musicale 4y ago> the administrators changed both the makeup and mission of the campus police So no more KISS makeup then?