[wholinator2]

I disagree. In my experience, these attitudes start with a _very specific_ group of students, by no means representative of the larger student body. I've actually experienced far more dissent to rules like this on campus then agreement, even accounting for silence. You stated yourself that these staff are usually recent humanities graduates. Even in the workplace, where I've experienced the big co commandment list handed down from on high, that list was by far a minority decision in terms of actual workforce engagement. At least where I am, students are not asking for things like this, employees are not asking for things like this, small task forces of motivated people are creating these rules and enforcing them globally through the fear of their supervisors.