David, I agree absolutely with your post. Bonnie Ashley, wife of the president of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, deserves respect. The astounding thing is that the media (in this case, Inside Higher Ed) see “moral equivalence” between Ashley, who is simply outspoken in her effort to save money (for the university), and the administrators at N. C. State, who have placed political sheepishness and costly finagling above any recognition of their obligation to the taxpayers who pay their bills.