CHE, which has generally been hostile to UChicago's Kalven Report (authored by a leading First Amendment scholar at the university), reports on pontificating administrators, and those who failed to pontificate about the atrocities in Israel and the war.  I've sent this letter to the editor:

To the editor:

I find it baffling that anyone would want to hear from a university President or senior administrator about any domestic or international issue.   Administrators should be seen and not heard, unless they are speaking about university business.  That is one of the ways in which the Kalven Report proposes to secure a wide open space for members of the university community to express their views, without fear that they are running afoul of institutional orthodoxy.

You again quote Brian Rosenberg, a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education and president emeritus of Macalester College, who claims that, "You cannot escape politics."  This statement doesn't become less idiotic the more times it is quoted.   If a University President remains silent about a political controversy and focuses on administering their university and its core functions of teaching and research, then he or she has indeed "escaped politics" in the only sense that matters in this context.  If, instead, the President uses the bully pulpit to pontificate about politics, then he or she has injected politics and the pall of orthodoxy into the institution.   That is exactly what the Kalven Report wants to avoid.

Sincerely,

Brian Leiter

UPDATE:  That was quick, the letter is now on the CHE site here.