once again there is confusion and signs of a conflicted administration as may mailman walks back the demands made on harvard that led to its refusal to knuckle under and the freezing of funds...all due to a "misunderstanding"...ms.mailman said all harvard's lawyers had to do was pick up the phone and call to talk over the mistakenly sent list of demands but instead, "went on a campaing of victimhood"...one wonders when rejecting a series of unreasonable and biased demmands, which boiled down to "don't say anything negative about israel [ no matter how factual ] or there will be consequences. we will frame the debate to fit our fundamentalist base"...among other demands harvard must apologize to its students for fostering a campus where there was antisemitism...antisemitism, not anything like an open expression of views...so much for the marketplace of ideas...critical thought about motivations and actions has become bias in the eyes of don's minions...there's room for further discussion as long as harvard caves in to all of the adminstration's demands...nothing authoritarian about that...don hates universities ( and, likely , the educated...look at his cabinet ) because people think there and the last thing he and his sycophants need is a critical look at what they are up to
