Egyptian universities have become too dangerous for the state to handle. Or at least it would seem that way. Students this week at Cairo University, the country’s largest national university, sat for final examinations on campuses more closely resembling high security prisons. A show of force—army and police personnel in large numbers—crowded the street leading up to the campuses main gates. Officers carefully inspected bags at the entrance. Police dogs brought in by a private security company combed the halls.