“She recounted how the slightly transgressive Stanford atmosphere in the 90s, which seeded the slightly transgressive get it done attitude of tech in the early 2000s, is being smothered by the Administration.”
Students once built an island on a frat lawn and nobody stopped them. Now the administration manages social life like a liability. The same school just put out a list of words its websites should stop using. Universities have more administrators than ever and less fun to show for it.