This is embarrassing and antithetical to what a university should be.

The whole purpose of an undergraduate education should be to build young people into having the knowledge and skills to really be free in society. A literally “liberal” education in the original sense of the word.

Instead adults have to ask permission to have guests.

That’s how you manufacture consent for a police state, making people live in an environment where the authorities have to approve of everything until their mid twenties.

This is also how you waste student money, state money, research money funneling it away into entirely unnecessary jobs.

University of California students just got done with a strike, maybe Stanford students should strike until the administration stops wasting their money.