I agree that one of the best things about Tent University was that it questioned the University administration. However, the University system itself hasn't really been questioned. Under an administration of extreme excesses (Bush, UCSC, etc.), people tend only to question the excesses. Universities are meant to the established system, with "human resources" for a future R&D/management middle class, "doing its jobs" as software in the system. Like [compulsory] public schools, higher education also has a hidden agenda to perpetuate the system, only at a higher level of the system. Of course, there is abundant "free," even revolutionary, thought at a university, but the university institution co-opts or trivializes passions with its systematic "education."

Also, discussions of Tent U have been framed entirely within the terms of a "student movement." The reality is that the University is an institution of privelege, and "equal opportunity" is only "equal opportunity" to participate in an unequal system. Students certainly should have "rights" (to be given by those in power) to organize themselves, but does a student movement truly free people? As nearly graduated student mentioned, these movements are really just tokenism, grasping for petty priveleges.