FYI my question in re: #177 actually wasn’t rhetorical. It had a question mark and everything.

I think if you’ve spent months vilifying protestors and your thesis is that this all escalated out of control because “campus authorities did next to nothing” then you really owe it to yourself if nobody else to flesh out the argument by explaining what you think should have been done that would have worked. Again, keeping in mind that we have plenty of counter examples where administrators who negotiated or did nothing are leading peaceful campuses with minimal disruption.