John’s College, which has another campus in Annapolis, Md., is in some ways an ideal setting for such an exercise. Ms. Garrett was out of breath from racing around campus, trying to find a friend who had borrowed her car keys. For much of the school’s faculty, it had simply been the college experience.Sarah Davis, the dean of the Santa Fe campus of St. John’s College, remembered students gathering to watch “E.R.” in her freshman dorm at Harvard. St. John’s is always reviewing its security protocols, Ms. Carpenter wrote in an email afterward, “and the Brown event is on our minds. Frost, a sophomore.The students were also reckoning with the fact that smartphones were more necessary for some than others.

Source: New York Times January 05, 2026 12:14 UTC