well, I'll happily jump on you for grinding your axe against professors in general and the Tenure system in particular when it has absolutely nothing to do with the problems that Dar is talking about. Various points in no particular order:

• Most professors, unless they're serving as residential advisors or some such capacity, have basically zero interaction with students outside classes and office hours --- and for the folks that are just doing research, that's zero interaction, period. I suppose you could argue they need to be required to spend less time teaching/researching and more time babysitting or something, but this seems rather at odds with the idea that
  • people should perhaps stick to what they know how to do best, and
  • students are in fact adults who can and should be held responsible for managing their own lives.
  
  
• Housing policies, campus security, and oversight of student activity, are matters of administration over which professors usually have zero control. In fact, faculty generally have a hard enough time hanging onto their own departmental budgets and grant money so as to be able to, e.g., pay their own teaching/research assistants something vaguely approaching a living wage and not have 80% of it sucked away as "overhead" to support lavish administrative facilities that provide zero useful services.
  
• Administrators do not get Tenure; that would be something of a contradiction in terms. The point of Tenure, after all, is to protect 'rogue' professors who've otherwise proven to their peers their ability to do useful research from administrative retribution/dismissal for, e.g., having unpopular views or for speaking out against the administration too much. In fact one could easily imagine such folks living in places like University Park (hint: you're a faculty member, you want someplace nice to live that's somewhat close to the university, where do you go?) and thus are most likely to be far more sympathetic to Dar's concerns than they are to those of an administration that's probably screwing them over in other ways every chance it gets.
  
  Do assholes and nutcases sometimes get tenure? You bet. Assholes and nutcases also get appointed to corporate boards or government agencies like DCLU. They can also be elected Mayor of Seattle or President of the United States. All of these are places where the wrong individual can do far more damage than any tenured professor could even dream of. Shit happens.
  
• It may be that some of the lower-level administrative folks may be unfirable because of civil service regs due to UW being a public school but that's a whole 'nother can of worms. Never mind that these aren't the folks that are setting the policies and schmoozing with the mayor/city-council.