Is there any reason to be so sarcastic here, other your desire to engage in bad faith here? There are good reasons to make the paths that people request on public websites private to the client & server, even when that content is seemingly not interesting (to you) to gather for snooping purposes.
Its always entertaining to see users claiming bad faith when they are engaging in bad faith themselves.
Please list the good reasons that are relevant for a fully publically accessible page of information that contains nothing that asks for usernames/passwords or whatever.
The proof of the burden as to why this website should force all communication to be public is on you. HTTPS exists and configuring it is simple in this era, and the choice to not use it for a university's public website is either laziness or incompetence.
You surely must be aware that content like headers and even URL paths (and other parts of the URL) are confidential over HTTPS.
Why should I allow an employer, an abusive spouse, an abusive parent, a parole officer, a detective looking to charge me with a crime, a gang looking to intimidate me, know which content I'm accessing from a website? All it takes is something like a wireshark application somewhere between (inclusive) my network and the server's network, and they will full have access to everything I've requested from the server and everything it has responded with, including all metadata. No warrants needed.
Like I said in another comment: "Why should we make any personal details about our lives public information if it doesn't need to be? Do you go around announcing all the things that you do in your life that are seemingly harmless? Sometimes revealing information to the public that one would think is harmless can end up doing a lot of harm, both to you and others. Privacy matters, a lot."
