At Harvard, Trouble Brewing Storming the Tower, a blog devoted to Boston-area colleges and universities, covers the madness at Harvard.

.....when student-administration tensions are already running high, interfering with the UC's constitution, and making it clear that student self-governance is illusory, at best makes this molehill into K2. It's actions like this that make students launch ridiculous, education-interfering protests in the end, and make everyone else roll their eyes and sigh at how entitled all those college kids are.

Well, yes and no. I agree that outsiders aren't going to be particularly sympathetic to student outrage that someone else isn't going to pay for their (whoo-hoo!) drunken bashes.

But I disagree that such protests are "education-interfering." Such protests, whether smart or stupid, serious or trivial, are educational in and of themselves.

Frankly, any sign of independent, rebellious thought from the too-busy-achieving-to-care student body at Harvard is darned exciting.  ¶ 7:59 AM