I know Hal, and he's someone that I would trust; he's someone who has a lot of integrity, and is someone who is quite sympathetic to Aaron's goals (although per

I know Hal, and he's someone that I would trust; he's someone who has a lot of integrity, and is someone who is quite sympathetic to Aaron's goals (although perhaps not to specific methods). So I disbelieve that this is going to be in any way a whitewash. I suspect his main goal is to not turn the initial fact-finding phase of the report into an adversarial, witch hunt. It's an interesting question whether MIT should have been the equivalent of a hostile witness in a courtroom, refusing to turn over any bit of evidence without a court order or a search warrant, because of a concern (which they might or might not have been able to forsee at the time) of prosecutorial overreach. But that's really a phase 2 question. The first thing that needs to happen is that Hal's effort (I assume he will be convening some kind of committee) will need to establish the facts and the timeline. And in order to do that, he needs to make sure that he gets cooperation from the various parts of the MIT administration who participated in this Greek Tragedy. His words about having an expectation that people behaved properly I think needs to be made in that light. A parent always has the expectation that their children has behaved properly. And it's only fair that a parent use that as a presumption of innocence. If it turns out that the child really did misbehave, at that point the expectation can of course turn into a profound sense of disappointment.