Colleges have become an echo chamber centered around profits and "the experience". A library card is a better investment; one that comes with more freedom.

I also find that its is not even individuals in the institutions but somehow the collective that causes this. I do not think this is the end of such places though as this kind of stuff has happened before and I think people will always find and make new spaces to make their own culture, the destruction of such places seems almost inevitable as they gain more and more notoriety.

It's also likely that these sorts of places will move off campus if there is truly a need for them. There are plenty of well-off alumni of Senior House, and erecting a building and maintaining the culture of Senior House off campus is something they could do if it is really that important to them.

Yes, this is clearly a reaction to political correctness, which is why they got rid of housing for the ~privileged~ straight white men and--oh, what? This was traditional housing for exactly the sort of queer people, minorities, and lower-income students who get blamed for hating "speakers who commit wrongthink"? While protests that don't do much are referred to as "burning campus," the people actually hurt by real actions are just the people all those dang SJWs keep saying are being hurt? Weird.

its the same in the UK there is a scandal where high schools are kicking out sixth form students and refusing to enter them for A levels to flatter the schools place in the league tables - this is actually illegal.

its like you where kicked out of your US high school and not allowed to graduate