While I've long been sympathetic to the idea of a university faculty being truly self-governing, I think there's something rather selfish and arrogant about it,

While I've long been sympathetic to the idea of a university faculty being truly self-governing, I think there's something rather selfish and arrogant about it, especially at a public university that draws a great deal of support from the taxpayer. Right now it seems like each party has about equal support from voters and the elections are often tight but this fellow wants to simply dismiss half of society as not being worthy of inclusion in his tent. It's sort of bizarre to listen to him prattle on about being open to the public and truly being an institution that serves everyone and then summarily dismiss half of society. An institution that was truly open would have greeted the election of Republican majority as a good reason to hire more Republicans. But not this fellow.