MIT politics is, and has long been, that the students of today hate the administration of today. This might be correlated to the number of folks in the MIT administration who are not MIT alums, incidentally. Fix that, and everything else follows.
I think that's the eternal position. The complaint in my day was "the administration ignores the students," so the administration asked for student input on the next controversial decision, and then did what they were going to do anyway.
Who do you think should fix it if not the MIT students?
Why don't they go and physically remove administration from the MIT and never let it back?
It seems impossibly unlawful when I write this but you know, there were times when students had a political agendas and they used to run over campuses, barricade them and battle the police. And now it's like "we're gonna hate them for life and not do a thing".
I understand I'm telling other people what to do but then again, the OP tells other people what to do[n't].
And when you come to think about it, how can an university be someone's property? Surely you can own buildings, but how do you own education and knowledge?
