re: Ole Miss Faculty and Students for Social Injustice to protest Boyce hiring

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The great irony in all of this is that the IHL’s complete incompetence has united the ole miss community in a way we haven’t see in years. If I lived in oxford I would be out there protesting shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of people I disagree with on probably 99% of other issues.

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That's exactly what is happening. I typed a lot, more than I should say really, and edited it back down. Basically, the vast majority of people working at Ole Miss are not anything like James Thomas, and in slapping down the handful of James Thomas' on campus, IHL just gut punched the rest of us. And for whatever bit of schadenfreude they are getting to enjoy today, they handed the new chancellor a pretty toxic environment. There are a lot of people that would have been happy to give him a chance if this had been an open process that are going to be very hard to win over now.