To say this is so scary on so many levels is, of course, a cliche. And yet scary is exactly what it is- and this I found particularly chilling (and telling)...
And eventually, when I spoke with the lawyer here at the University, I
was told that, "Well, I represent the university, and I protect the
university from liability. You’re kind of on your own." And I remember I
looked at him, and I said, "But the very university, from the Latin universitas,
is a collection of scholars, of teachers and students, so who is this
entity, the university, that you represent that doesn’t include me?" But
clearly there’s some entity that doesn’t really include us, the
professors and students, and doesn’t really protect our academic
freedom, I think, the way that it should. (emphasis mine)
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