<story><title>MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/a-weird-mit-dorm-dies-and-a-crisis-blooms-at-colleges</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mhalle</author><text>As a Senior House alum and former instructor at MIT, what bothers me the most is how MIT is teaching horrible standards of ethical behavior through their actions.&lt;p&gt;Improper use of metadata to track down individuals in a confidential survey about mental health and substance abuse would end a scientist&amp;#x27;s career. MIT did it.&lt;p&gt;Collective punishment of a group for the actions of a few is an educational and social antipattern. MIT did it.&lt;p&gt;An &amp;quot;end justifies means&amp;quot; mentality is a classic tool used by the strong against the powerless. MIT embraced it.&lt;p&gt;Removing completely innocent people from their homes and their supportive social structure, while MIT&amp;#x27;s right, would face justified outrage in any public context.&lt;p&gt;Using these tools on anyone, let alone the students you thought brilliant and worthy enough to admit, teaches a mindset abusive of power and lacking in humanity. A mindset that is all too common in our society.&lt;p&gt;MIT has plenty of honorable and fair people. If they didn&amp;#x27;t know enough to stand up for Senior House specifically, why didn&amp;#x27;t they stand up against the tools that the administration used that they know are wrong?&lt;p&gt;I have found &amp;quot;we teach as we live, we live as we teach&amp;quot; a pretty powerful and positive philosophy.</text></comment>
<story><title>MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/a-weird-mit-dorm-dies-and-a-crisis-blooms-at-colleges</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>otakucode</author><text>As college morphs into High School+, and society extends their definition of &amp;#x27;childhood&amp;#x27; to cover up to age 25, steps will be taken to destroy the autonomy and personality of these &amp;#x27;children.&amp;#x27;  Children are entitled no rights, no difference of opinion from them is respected, and any degree of control over them, no matter how extreme, is always seen as warranted.</text></comment>