Could America/s vaunted educational establishment have found a better way to disgrace itself than its "soft on crime" reaction to multiple campus uprisings? For an affinity group that has studiously avoided religious involvement, tolerance of unruly and disruptive campus demonstrations reflects astonishing academic disregard for its own rules of civil student conduct. The idea of "negotiating" with masked organizers of supposedly privileged undergraduates and outside infiltrators is antithetical to the responsibilities of supposedly professional educators of our future societal leaders. Is this simply another matter that is all about the money? Do middle Eastern parents send their offspring here for exposure to western ways or to conduct seditious public exercises? Are university trustees and administrators steeped in "diversity, equity and inclusion" now worried about the financial implications of these uprisings - continuing ability to tap wealthy graduate endowment benefactors to attract a broader range of supposedly deserving applicants? Do basic precepts of law and order no longer apply even to institutions of learning from evidentiary historical experience? Our detractors must be laughing heartily at us. The world's exemplary beacon of democratic governance and religious tolerance is being humbled and humiliated on the world stage, aided and abetted by tentative federal oversight and timid institutional leadership. Phil Osifer