Right Choice Does Not Require a Majority

I’m with our university in resisting tyranny, and I urge the whole institution to continue standing up for all our people — and our democratic institutions as well — in the face of this threat. So far it looks as if we’re doing better this time around than Whitey Dodds did in the McCarthy era. It may get more difficult with time to withstand the assaults to all kinds of freedom, both academic and personal. If we stand together and take our stance early and hold it, we will win in the long run.

I hope that I am joined by the overwhelming majority of my fellow alumni in this view, but the right choice does not depend on having a majority. In this case it’s just right.