Around the country, more and more colleges have seemingly launched a war on fun. At Yale, a law student was pressured by administrators to apologize after inviting students to a party at a "trap house." At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three students were suspended in 2021 for attending an off-campus party maskless. And at Stanford, the subject of a recent article from The Free Press, student groups must submit an arduous application to even host a party at all.
This anti-social trend is troubling, especially when considering the already sky-high rates of mental illness among college students. But there's a clear reason why so many schools are attempting to lock down their students' social lives. In recent years, the number of college administrators—especially at elite colleges—has skyrocketed. With more administrators, a bureaucratization of student life inevitably follows.
