Seems innocuous enough. Yet a more alarming piece of news I could not have received. For more than the price of an entire apartment, this institution provides me with half of a bedroom and access to an occasionally clean communal bathroom. And included in the price of housing, they throw in an RA, a student blessed with the wisdom that comes with being two years older than me, whom the university instructs to police me. But my fellow campers, for our omniscient administrators, this is not enough.
College is ostensibly a time of growth, a time of independence and a time for maturity.
NU could do nothing more to undermine those values than to send the message that students need adults around to keep things in line. The City of Evanston and the State of Illinois have mechanisms for keeping law and order that seem to work just fine. NU likes to tout itself as being on par with an Ivy League school. Last weekend, I visited a friend at Yale. Amazingly, despite this fact, things in New Haven seemed just dandy.