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You are failing to grasp the nuance of this case. Oberlin isn't in trouble for it's students extreme views or behavior. It's responsible for the staff and officially sanctioned organizations and so liable when defamatory statement are made through the college's communications. Also, Oberlin staff used their positions within the college to make the defamatory statements appear to be sanctioned by the college itself. But no college is held responsible for the ridiculous viewpoints individual students post on social media or even if they write it into an op-ed in the school newspaper.

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What screwed the college was that the adminstrator was really really bad. She could have supported students and the school would have been fine. Brought water and food to protest. Helping make sure students were safe. That would have been fine. [b]But the email and testimony showed that she was an organizer. She sanctioned school funds for making the sheets with the statements that she knew at the time to be false or misleading. She organized the students at the protest with the bullhorn. She helped cancel the bakery's school contracts for what she knew were false reasons. She had the power to call off the protest when she wanted to. There was a lot more. The jury had enough to conclude she was running the show[/b]. She should not have been. The college's general counsel is the one really to fire here. That person may be gone but it was that person's job to keep the adminstrator in her lane and not do these things.
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Agree with almost all of this.  Any school with a decided tilt toward one side of the political spectrum (be it right or left) should try to get a general counsel that is much more to the center to be a tempering voice.  But I disagree that this fell entirely on the general counsel.  Don't know how the Obie org chart works, but it is unlikely that the GC could have fired the Dean.  This one is on the College President at the time.  They should have reigned Meredith Raimondo in and fired her for insubordination if she didn't fall in line.  I am astonished that the woman was hired by another educational institution after creating this financial nightmare for Oberlin.  Talk about failing upwards.[/quote]

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