… from the standpoint of identity politics, that is.

As reported in The Daily Bruin, the university intends to replace its current five “themed” housing floors (“an academic floor, a social justice floor, an art floor, a community service floor and a health and fitness floor”) with four floors whose themes will be “sustainability; African Diaspora Studies; health, science and medicine; and Chican@/Latin@ Diaspora Studies.”

Peter Wood is at his wry best in interpreting this latest burst of innovation on the part of residence life “progressives,” for example, in puzzling out the meaning of their new code word “sustainability,” their zany @-laced orthography, and their demotion of “an academic floor.” Here is more evidence that the Res Life leaders are virtuoso manipulators, adept at devising ever more ways of forcing captive students into an ideological straitjacket.