You are acting like having universities be open to the public is some sort of insane thing. Prior to COVID it was EXTREMELY common. I worked at 3 universities,

You are acting like having universities be open to the public is some sort of insane thing. Prior to COVID it was EXTREMELY common. I worked at 3 universities, my partner worked at 3 other universities, and ALL of them had all academic buildings and libraries open to the public during normal business hours with very few exceptions. Blocking carte blanc access to regular academic buildings was abnormal and even a major academic cultural faux pas prior to 2020. I can't think of a single building access door that was locked. Portions of buildings, lab spaces, classrooms while lectures were in a session -- sure. But not buildings. Everything was always very open to the public and someone had to be really causing issues to be kicked out. MIT was an outlier in this respect because even things like seminars were always presumed to be open to the public unless stated otherwise. > Then would you want an open door policy on your home with non-residents allowed to go on your property at any time without appointments or permission and unescorted? My home is not an academic building at a university, and dorm buildings are not the same as academic buildings. I don't want random people playing football or taking a piss in my home, but I have no problem with parks or public bathrooms. > and while instructors are instructing and administrators administrating on campus it is their place of work. As someone who worked at a university for many, many years: stop lecturing me; I'm supposed to be the one that does the lecturing! ;-) Also, I can tell you don't work at a university or are yourself a deanlet because no academic says things like "what about the poor administrators?!" ;)