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Re:Stanford Hates Fun by rainbowzootsuit on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:06PM (#34121581)
The administrators are there as approximately 1:1 hand servants to carry your bags, attend to preparation of meals, and so forth such that you not expend yourself unduly.
Re:Stanford Hates Fun by MerelyMortal on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:12PM (#34121633)
I think you should have included the /s tag. Since they don't actually do all of that stuff, it goes to show that ratio is ridiculous.
Re:Stanford Hates Fun by rainbowzootsuit on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:01PM (#34122538)
You got the /s. I thought it would be implicit.
Re:Stanford Hates Fun by nobody9999 on Saturday December 24, 2022 @09:19PM (#34123436)
>You got the /s. I thought it would be implicit.

As sad as it may be, Poe's Law[0] really is a thing:

   Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture saying that, 
   without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any 
   parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers
   for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.
I've been bitten by that more than once, myself. C'est la vie, eh?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Re:Stanford Hates Fun by amluto on Saturday December 24, 2022 @06:41PM (#34122406)
Not unless something has changed radically. The administrators are nominally there to do specific things. For example, there might be an administrator whose job is to liase (sorry!) with the students on staff at a group of houses to make sure that they do their jobs and to find out when the university needs to do to help. For example, if there is a plumbing problem, students would tell this administrator and they would get it fixed.

Of course, there seem to be a lot of administrators these days if all the articles are right, so perhaps there are now extra ones doing nothing particularly useful or administrators whose job is to make policy.’

There is no administrator that actually helps students with daily tasks.

Re:Stanford Hates Fun by lumost on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:55PM (#34122896)
The above commentator was almost certainly being facetious. However with so many highly paid administrators - there could be an alternate world where they simply did serve students in daily needs. Considering this alternate world, it really does beg the question what these administrators are doing.
Re:Stanford Hates Fun by nobody9999 on Saturday December 24, 2022 @09:14PM (#34123399)
>there could be an alternate world where they simply did serve students in daily needs.

I'd say an alternate time[0] (up to ~50 years ago) rather than an alternate world.

That said, domestic servants are still common today in some parts of the world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedder

Re:Stanford Hates Fun by giardini on Sunday December 25, 2022 @01:22PM (#34129653)
No apology is necessary as "liase" is a valid word dating back to at least the early 1900's:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/liaise

amluto notes: >"There is no administrator that actually helps students with daily tasks."<

We graciously thank you for pointing out this oversight and shall take measures immediately to correct it and ensure it never happens again!

Re:Stanford Hates Fun by amluto on Saturday December 24, 2022 @06:45PM (#34122424)
Not unless something has changed radically. The administrators are nominally there to do specific things. For example, there might be an administrator whose job is to liase (sorry!) with the students on staff at a group of houses to make sure that they do their jobs and to find out when the university needs to do to help. For example, if there is a plumbing problem, students would tell this administrator and they would get it fixed.
Re:Stanford Hates Fun by rainbowzootsuit on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:01PM (#34122539)
/s