The wording of the question indicates that federal bureaucrats should not be involved in micromanaging how private colleges choose to enforce standards of student behavior like sexual harassment. People across the political spectrum don’t tend to view federal bureaucrats with admiration. The term micromanaging is not usually tied to a laudatory form of management. Finally, the fact that the colleges are private suggests that the federal government is overstepping its bounds. Whatever problems private colleges are having enforcing acceptable student behavior, the phrasing of the prompt gives the impression that micromanagement from federal bureaucrats isn’t the best solution.

Conversely, one could argue that private colleges have been so inept at managing student infractions that micromanagement from federal bureaucrats, however unsavory that sounds, is preferable. In recent years, private colleges like Columbia University, Northwestern University, and Oberlin College have provoked controversy and lawsuits due to how they’ve handled students and accusations of sexual misconduct. Using such examples, one can argue that private universities can’t seem to handle students on their own, and thus other actors, like federal bureaucrats, have little choice but to get involved.