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Excellent article, and thanks for posting. Radical administrators are apparently ignorant of some pretty basic principles of collegiate management. This:

Dean Raimondo personally handed out the libelous flyer at a rally outside the store, and addressed the crowd with a bullhorn. It was a mob not merely encouraged, but also coordinated, by the professional administrators of the college.

This is mind-numbingly stupid on several levels. Personal involvement by university officials makes it official policy, and the university officially liable. Getting recorded doing it removes the ability to spin the incident as Oberlin tried to do in court: "Oh, she was just trying to keep things peaceful and under control." No sale when the individual in question is caught red-handed whipping up a mob. Stonewalling the thing in court is a great way to get clobbered, and insulting the jury while it is still in session is/was disastrously stupid, and the fact that it was university counsel doing it raises the stupidity to stratospheric levels. They couldn't have done worse if they were deliberately trying to pooch the case, and they weren't.

Staying in office, defiant and unapologetic, and daring the court to come after them is beyond stupid, it's suicidal. If one single individual of this clutch of flat-lined geese remains in office it's because the Board has decided it's worth $33 million to have them there.

Will the college ever actually pay the money?

Or will they dig their heels in and fight the decision?

"The family at the center of a defamation lawsuit against Oberlin College hugged in celebration on Thursday when a jury granted them $33 million
in punitive damages on top of the $11 million compensatory award they’re already owed by the liberal arts school.
The newly decided punitive damages — money awarded to plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit to punish defendants and deter future bad conduct — were broken down
by the jury into $17.5 million for David Gibson, $8.75 million for family patriarch Allyn Gibson, and $6.97 million for their company, Gibson Bros, Inc."
https://www.toledoblade.com/local/education/2019/06/13/jury-hits-oberlin-with-31-million-punitive-damages-bakery-protests/stories/20190613148
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If one single individual of this clutch of flat-lined geese remains in office it's because the Board has decided it's worth $33 million to have them there.

Probably they have to keep them until the litigation is over. In Oberlin's view, they are going to win their appeal and have a retrial. They need to keep these witnesses on the team. Plus, it would look bad if Oberlin fired them.

Your comments, by the way, are spot-on.