> an institution that should be politically agnostic. Maybe it should be but when has it been? Ruthless punishment of cheating for example, and extreme measur

> an institution that should be politically agnostic. Maybe it should be but when has it been? Ruthless punishment of cheating for example, and extreme measures to discipline and prevent it are just as idealogical as permitting it. Just as political, even. There's a good conversation to be had about cost, consequences, balance, etc here. Or a poor one where this is framed as a one-sided imposition of "politics" on a somehow uniquely pure, apolitical institution.