Looking only at the nineteen College alumni I do not see a very activist group. Nor a very young one: most graduated in the seventies and eighties; only a couple as late as the nineties. I daresay several might have thought of themselves during undergrad days as politically radical. Time and experience, reading and pondering, had not yet fully formed them. It will be that way with you and your classmates, @surelyhuman . A first-rate education frees the mind of fashionable cant. One of your favorite authors, Anthony Kronman, says this repeatedly in his recent book and doesn’t draw back from an autobiographical account of his own pilgrimage from his student days of the sixties, when every young person was absolutely certain that utopia was around the corner (or, if not that, then apocalypse).
Debate with utmost passion the truth of politics and everything else under the sun - that’s the Chicago way - but remember that the coin of the realm here is openness to being wrong. Let’s hope these Trustees imbibed that ethos.