as someone not hailing from the US the entire setup sounds bizarre to me and I wonder why students even still participate in this. Over here in Germany on-campus living is uncommon. People just rent flats in the city, go to uni and the limit to how much they can party is usually determined by how much they can piss off their landlord or neighbors, which is how it ought to be given that everyone's an adult.

Why are people over the age of 18 voluntarily putting themselves into an environment where they have to ask if they can have a party? Why is this nonsense not simply dying on its own? The real problem is that people don't simply leave. Easiest way to not be annoyed by some bureaucrat gone mad with power is to separate school life from private life.