This whole matter would have been nothing but a tiny blip on the radar were it not for the president, provost, dean of the law school and the particularly vicious law faculty choosing to make incindiary statements to the press in an attempt to turn this into something that it was not. Why each chose to do that only they know, but one thing is clear: they damaged themselves and the the university in the eyes of many with ties to university around the state who really do believe in freedom of speech and expression. The professor was naive; the university was simply vicious.