More on Canada's apparently most dysfunctional university.  The culture of bullying clearly extends to the philosophy department, where Alan Richardson (the Chair of the Department at UBC and a longtime PGR hater, going back to 2002!) tried to bully colleagues, as we've since learned, into signing last fall's PGR boycott statement, until there was a backlash in the department–at which point Richardson had to make clear that he and Jenkins didn't want to force anyone to sign.  Once that happened, five members of the Department who had signed prior to the release of the statement withdrew their names just days before its publication!  (Amusingly, outside UBC, David Velleman also withdrew his name too:  he obviously realized it was absurd to suggest that my derisive e-mail to Carrie Jenkins after she threatened me was especially "harmful" because of my role in the PGR.)  

One can garner some insight into the institutional pathology at UBC by viewing this statement of university policy (which calls to mind this) and contrasting it, say, with a statement about fundamental principles from a serious university.

ADDENDUM:  The Board Chair has (at least temporarily) stepped aside, while the investigation proceeds.