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Inside Higher Ed - Opinion Piece

November 28, 2011

Michael Roth, president, Wesleyan University, writes: A few days after campus police used truncheons to break up a nonviolent protest at the University of California at Berkeley, I wound up blogging about the incident, both on my campus and for The Huffington Post. My administrative colleagues were concerned about whether I should be criticizing another university, and another administration. I suppose as a president I was supposed to have more in common with chancellors, presidents and their "reports" than I was supposed to have with professors and students. This is misdirected allegiance.

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