No because its not the purpose. The purpose is to reduce risk by having accountability assignment to things like demonstrations that hurts the funding of the institution.

There was a bunch of anti-Israel stuff for example, which goes against the alignment of the university donors. In order to be able to assign accountability and prevent reoccurrence of such events, its useful to know who did these things so you can take necessary measures.

A bunch of cameras cost much much less than what stopped funding would cost the university, so it's the rational choice.

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rembal 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If the goal of the university is to be a fund vacuum cleaner it's rational. If the goal is to output free thinking, open minded graduates...

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augment_me 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think the board of a 5.3 billion dollar(2025) revenue machine with a 8-9% yearly profit margin care about the latter things to the same extent as the former.

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melbournesky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

free thinking, open minded graduates are great as long as they don't question or criticize israel

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john-h-k 3 hours ago | parent [-]

this site is slowly becoming X/reddit levels of slopulism

	▲	melbournesky 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		hasbara intensifies

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kakadu an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> which goes against the alignment of the university donors

Why do we allow non public universities to exist again?

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lostlogin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> it's the rational choice.

Time will tell. Long term, I think it’ll hurt them.

	▲	augment_me 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I really doubt that putting up some cameras will make the institution suffer monetarily in the long term, especially considering that newer generations are essentially brought up and normalized to full mass surveillance already.
	▲	Waterluvian 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I’m still waiting for my ancestor’s liege lord to realize that posting a guard outside our town’s tavern was going to backfire long term. Security, but at what cost?!
	▲	deaux 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Of course it won't. It never has. The people making these decisions and profiting from them will be long gone, even if it ends up hurting the university (which it won't)