They could, but in my view, that would be wrong. Do you do something that’s unethical just a little bit? I can’t abide that idea; I don’t believe that the end justifies the means in this case. There have to be standards. Brandeis was founded on the ideas of justice and equality: to do something so unethical is really counter to everything that it should be espousing.

Do you think there’s anything the university could do at this point to smooth things over?

Yeah. They could say, “We made a big mistake. We’re sorry, and we’ll never do it again.”

And then we’ll go away. But until that time, we’re not going away.