Originally a comment by Dave Ricks on The meeting should never have happened at all.
I appreciate the university addressing the problem as an employment issue:
We hired an external fact-finder with expertise in human resources issues. I have received the report and we are taking decisive action to ensure these events will not be repeated.
The employment issue gave a concrete framework for procedure (including legality). That was different than arguing for freedom of expression in the abstract (which was the popular argument, and maybe valid, but would lead to a different chain of logic, and probably conclude in terms of ideologies).
I see two remaining issues.
One issue is the so-called apology that Shepherd’s supervisor Prof. Rambukkana … Read the rest