Why is there a pic of Dolly?

For those who aren’t involved in university politics, it looks from the article like this happened:

1. The department and its chair/head, the people who would work with him, were fine with him as a colleague.

2. The university president did a heavy-handed top-down move to ban him

Almost any time you see “University Does X” in a headline, replace “university” with the name of the president. College presidents and their provosts, various VPs, Deans, etc. are incredibly Trumpy in behavior. They think of themselves as liberals because they were often faculty working in liberal departments. However, once they put on the suit and start throwing around business jargon they almost all begin doing exactly the things to their universities that MAGA does to the nation, often in the same ways.

I knew someone who grew up very poor in rural coastal Alaska. Something like this was her idea of a great time: when she and her sisters found a bloated seal washed up in the beach they used it as a trampoline.