Drew Faust made only oblique reference to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” backing away slightly from a pledge to bring it up.

Good for her and her sense of what is tacky versus what is classy.

Well, almost. She called universities a “place not just where minds can flourish…[but] where hearts are nourished as well — by commitment to the pursuit of truth, to the availability of opportunity based on merit, to the full inclusion of all in our hopes and possibilities.”

Shouldn’t we be thankful that corps members’ “hearts” are not to be “nourished” as they are in universities? How university presidents ever came to believe they had moral authority on these matters would be an interesting topic for, say, an interdisciplinary study.